Celebrating Bimini Place
Council President Eric Garcetti, department heads from the Department of Public Works, CALTRANS, LADOT and Metro joined the community surrounding Bimini Place and the Los Angeles Eco-Village to celebrate the completion of the East Hollywood Shared Street Project. Continue reading »
ubrayj02
If ever there was a symbol of the baby boom generation ...
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ubrayj02
Well I've got one to top all of that! I heard the BRU hates puppies AND kittens!
Okay, on a serious note, here is a survey for anti-BRU people to take:
I am bitter about the BRU because:
(a) I didn't get one of those cool yellow t-shirts
(b) My transit advocate friends are not smoking hot, mixed ethnicity, college girls
(c) I hate it when BRU drones waste everyone's time with pointless vitriol
(d) All of the above
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militant angeleno
The BRU is run by a racist who exploits minorities for his personal gain.
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ubrayj02
Just the other day I was wondering how bicycles and cars compared in vehicle miles traveled and crashes or deaths, and the average per capita VMT for both modes.
Where does this data come from? How is it modeled? I guess I'd have to re-enroll in college to find out. Unless some Streetsblogger wants to lend a hand.
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ubrayj02
Jeebus, if the City if breaking the law then get a bike lawyer and file suit!
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ubrayj02
It pained me to hear clueless talk from some of the public speakers talk about "congestion relief" in reference to highway construction and widening. If ever there was a bigger lie in transportation planning, I have never seen it.
I am going to vote "no" on this sales tax increase, and I am going to do my what I can to see that it fails.
No money for bicycle and pedestrian transportation - and stupid grins when I brought up how easy it was to change their frickin' Local Returns funding guidelines, "Duhh ... what? Nah that's for them cities to look after."
The MTA holds the local return (and Transportation Demand Management) money behind a wall of project standards that are entirely based on the movement of private automobiles. No pedestrian or bike projects are allowed to interfere with any car infrastructure, past, present, or future.
Carol Inge's Countywide Planning and Development Department needs to be held accountable for the way they judge the Local Returns projects.
"No" to this idiotic highway expansion tax, and "no" to the MTA's ridiculous Local Returns funding guidelines.
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Zane Selvans
They are smoking some serious crack if they think that 710 tunnel is ever going to ever get built. Have they not been paying attention to the Big Dig? I wonder how I'll vote...
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Rhode Bloch
The BRU is a front organization funded secretly by automotive interests. Believe it. The people who make up that misguided organization have no clue and that's how the auto industry likes it. The irony is that they whine to no end about rail projects even though rail is the only hope of seeing faster bus service. If we abandoned all rail projects and put 1000 busses on the street you would still be locked up in traffic and busses would take the usual 2 hours to get anywhere in a sea of traffic because ain't nobody going to get out of their cars to get in a bus that moves at less than the speed of a car where as they WILL get out of their cars to get on a fast moving rail line. Dumdums. Not to mention that rail lines are more efficient at transporting bodies per amount of greenhouse pollution. With more rail draining car drivers from the streets, busses would actually begin to move faster and make life better buys riders. REAL SIMPLE
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ingrid
I still think that the money for the 710 tunnel should go *DIRECTLY* to bicycle and pedestrian projects.
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Live the Dream!
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Tony Fernandez
I can't say that I disagree with the BRU when they argue against freeway widening. There goes money that could be spent on much more worthwhile projects to the black hole called freeways.
Well, at least I can always hope that the 710 tunnel will never come to fruition and that the money which was supposed to have gone to it can fund something that will actually do something good for this county.
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Dan Wentzel
Also, the so-called Bus Riders "Union" wear yellow t-shirts that say "Billions for Buses". Well, here are those billions are and the BRU states they will organize and vote against those billions, just because highway and rail projects are included.
Such a misguided organization. It's a shame, because bus riders need advocates who can be taken seriously. Fortunately, there are other organizations like Southern California Transit Advocates and the Transit Coalition which support a strong bus system AND needed rail improvements too, and work constructively to achieve both.
This sales tax measure would provide dramatic improvements in bus service, but it is clear the BRU isn't really interested in solving transportation problems, only in crusading against "the man".
Fortunately for everyone, the BRU is declining in influence if not in volume.
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Dan Wentzel
What a meeting.
Never have I seen someone speak so long-windedly and repetitiously only to "abstain".
Antonovich believes "equity" means the money being distributed by subregion by population only.
Yaroslavsky astutely pointed out that "equity" could also mean distributing by where people are commuting TO, not just from. Santa Monica has three times the population during the day it has at night. Only 5,000 people live in Century City, but how many people work there, or live in downtown as compared to work there. Should equity involve those areas paying the most in sales taxes receive the most? Should equity mean distribution by the greatest need of transit dependency? Antonovich's argument doesn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny. It should be mentioned that when Yaroslavsky was making his point about "equity", Antonovich walked out of the room and didn't even listen.
Perhaps there is some formula that could have been created that had a certain percentage of the pot distributed based on the population where people live, a certain percentage based on where people commute to (work/school), and a certain percentage based on the greatest "need". I thought Kymberleigh Richards was right on when she said, "ridership" should be the prioritizer.
In any event, even though they project list will make no one 100% happy, not even me, I will enthusiastically support and vote this sales tax measure for it is the only realistic manner on offer to fund these desperately needed transportation improvements.
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Nick Matonak
Another issue along the same line is that a lot of these crosswalk lights are timed so that unless you are standing right at the crosswalk ready to go, then their is almost so chance of you crossing the street legally since the crosswalk lights are timed for such short intervals. This is especially troublesome for people like me that walk slower than the average person
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Anon
I understand the ticketing as part of protection. I don't enter the intersection once the hand starts flashing. But I agree to the above posters that say the red light runners and their ilk need to be ticketed. The Metro buses that FLY down the streets as close to the curbs as possible that run the red lights - especially are menacing!
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Brett Winterson
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fpteditors
If you make public transit free, the voices for better service will be stronger, and sprawl will be a little less subsidized.
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Mark Peterson
Will I be the last before the deadline?
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calwatch
Obama does not have a great counter to the fact that the conservatives argue... if we had started drilling in ANWR in 2001, when Bush took office, we wouldn't have this problem right now. The other thing that McCain will argue is that alternatives are not anywhere near adoption, and many of them, like ethanol and hydrogen, are just plain stupid. I think exploration is a good idea myself, to allow for a gradual transition... but the oil coming out of it should be placed immediately in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and be taxed heavily when it is taken out, to make this more of a resource to be used when the terrorists blow up the Port of Houston rather than something to be dipped into when prices are just a few cents too high.
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Aaron
State Assemblyman Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, said he was pleased that the MTA included more funding for the Gold Line in the proposal, but he said that the state bill has a long way to go.
"There are still quite a few `ifs' to get through," Hernandez said. "With all that potential money on the table, there is no guarantee that someone who doesn't think his district is getting enough doesn't work against the bill."
Yeah, look in the mirror, you idiot.
This gold line nonsense is like the camel creeping into the tent. Are the SGV/IE local governments going to pay to operate it when it runs empty trains?
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Kevin Ivey
As a doctor and bike rider,the need for safer and clearly marked bike trails and road lanes is essential at this time of oil and gas prices. Also safety from gangs and homeless people on the existing main bike trails such as the LA River trail, is paramount to get back these trails from the intimidators.
Kevin Ivey
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Andrew Bloomgarden
Count me in.
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Will Campbell
Months ago back when Flexcar still lived and this issue was initially in front of Councilmember Gruel and her transportation committee I was a huge endorser of the idea of dedicated on-street parking for shared-cars. Then, as Ingrid point out above, Zipcar came to town and opted to strip out Flexcar's vehicle distribution and cater strictly to the college crowd by relocating some of the fleet to USC and UCLA.
I'll never forgive Zipcar for so blatantly foresaking Flexcar members such as myself, and its now dampened my enthusiasm for shared-car parking programs; Zipcar basically said "fuck you" to me and I don't want them benefiting from any city support. That may not be a very objective or mature stance, and indeed beyond whatever company name is on the letterhead, I have serious reservations as to whether a car-sharing program can succeed in this region. Flexcar wasn't perfect by any means but it was more of what car-sharing programs should be.
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David Pulsipher
he probably thought the pedestrian was paul begala
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