The Onion Savages L.A.’s Unsafe Streets

L.A.'s cyclists have waited a long time for a popular national website to give prominent sympathetic coverage for the daily struggles faced on L.A.'s deadly streets. And then, well, today, The Onion, which tells the unvarnished truth about transit, ran this story on Los Angeles' latest plan to make streets... well... different.

The Onion mostly kinda figuratively gets the story right:

The Onion somehow neglected a few aspects of yesterday's surprise announcement. A shadowy non-profit calling itself "Keep L.A. Driving" teamed up with well-known aging homeowner cabal "Nix the City" have already filed what appear to be about a half-dozen lawsuits against the new downtown street plan. And the plan was probably dead on arrival, as the Institute of Zombie Traffic Engineers had already questioned whether any space for cyclists was permitting under the MUCEATCD (Manual Upholding Cars Everywhere All the Time Cars Drive.)

Get the full story, including a sad funny photo-simulation, at The Onion.