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Nah. Not a long way to go to be a truly livable city and more. /

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I blame the biggest car-addicted suburbanite NIMBY propagandist of all, John Phillips of 790 KABC.

They are hideous

"Perfect weather", me who actually likes rain more than sun, Chicago, New York, and Seattle have more perfect weather to me.

Voting No on this. All the funding is going to be mismanaged anyways and the taxpayer is going to pay the price. The department of public works is already supposed to be making the streets safer so let the governor and city officials find a way to do their jobs.

Vote no on HLA.

Here in downtown I don’t see people on bikes. It’s just a waste of space. You forget people that work in downtown don’t leave 2 miles away. They come from glendale, palmdale, orange county, riverside, san bernardino, etc. The public transportation is getting worse with homeless doing drugs in the buses and wagons. I work in downtown.

Vote no on HLA.

Wow, I've lived in Montreal, Vancouver, and now Toronto, and I always thought in my mind that LA was similar. LA makes Toronto look like a pedestrian paradise, even though Toronto is low by international standards. I haven't used a car in 5 years living in Toronto. I've spent years walking along the junction, midtown, St. Clair West, Bloor West, Greektown, Queen West, Liberty Village, the Beaches, Queen East, the Harbourfront, Cabbagetown, Davisville Village, Little Italy, Trinity Bellwoods, Roncesvalles, and more, all because they are nodes in the subway or streetcar lines. Each node is its own mini-city, which I love. I just thought any city with more than a million people lived like this. In my mind, I knew LA had bad traffic, but I thought they would at least have transit-oriented development with density and walkability, but wow, this is actually terrible! It makes me not want to visit LA.

I see few if any pedestrians actually look before they walk . When the light turns green they are talking to their companions or on their phones . They don't look to either side they just start walking . I am a pedestrian and am constantly getting cut off at green lights by cars turning right at corners . Careless pedestrians get run over !

I’ve lived in Silverlake for nearly 50 years and watching this neighborhood get destroyed, so I will vote “No.”. It’s just another waste of taxpayers money.

sick video

I think the closer south you go, they teach more european history

Just for understanding, that's 300 just in the city of LA, not the county? Just to compare: The German capital Berlin has a similar population, but completely different traffic patters. There it averages around 40-50 death per year, quite evenly spread between drivers, cyclists and pedestrians (similar to how the traffic is spread) and they clearly still have a lot of room for improvements.

I’m voting yes on HLA -CD14 resident

Good video man. Thanks for the info

I’ve lived here for two years and I have a question each day I step outside. Why isn’t every single council member and the mayor shown this video or something like it? Are they all living under rocks? How is this not massively in progress? There’s gotta be so many people who have knowledge of this type of stuff pushing them, not to mention staffers and other officials. We know we need safer streets and micro mobility and transit access and transit frequency. How are we not moving faster on this?

Bravo! We need more urbanists to get the word out about what measures we should want to vote for!

The law needs to change, both in the US and Canada. It has been effective in Japan to hold the larger thing responsible for such accidents. Drive a big ass truck? You're more responsible. Hit a pedestrian that's smaller than your vehicle (which is almost always) you're responsible. It's an easy rule and it WORKS.

It’s a snowball effect as well. The more pedestrian accessible a city becomes, the more people are willing to take public transportation, which means less people are driving, which means the city can become more pedestrian accessible which means more people will take public transportation, and so on

I went to a neighborhood council meeting last night where LADOT was making a presentation on bike lanes on the West side and the attendants there were coming up with so many imagined non-sensical scenarios about how the bike lanes would negatively impact the neighborhood, ignoring that Santa Monica has almost completely covered their city with bike lanes with no issue. The proportion of people at this meeting who didn't like the lanes would make it seem like Angelenos don't want transit improvements in the city. I'm really curious to see not just if HLA passes, but if it passes *by how much* it passes. It'll give a great yardstick on where Angelenos really stand on the issue.

Really well done video. Proponents should be using in all their TV advertising

Exactly how I feel. The only streets where businesses are allowed are streets also designed like highways. It's absolutely negligent planning. 2:17 So true. It's so hard to convince LA natives that every street is negligently designed like a highway when they've never seen anything different. If only they knew how much better life could be.

Lovely vid. If I lived there I would vote.

WeHo is cute. I kind of want to try to live there for a bit at some point in my life, I just don't know about the car culture of LA as a whole.

Showtime in L.A. Even on the new 6th Street Viaduct. And what did that cost?

Some updates: 03:00 City Council has directed staff to develop a plan to implement protected bike lanes on Beverly Blvd. weho.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?event_id=6b5174a7-9c48-4400-91a7-7144c63e20f0 03:13 John Erickson and Chelsea Byers have been elected the city's new mayor and vice mayor, respectively. wehoonline.com/2024/01/06/wehos-incoming-mayor-staying-focused-community/ 03:26 The "We are not the Netherlands" guy has launched a bid for WeHo City Council. wehoonline.com/2023/12/17/george-nickle-launches-bid-2024-weho-council-seat/

More la city planing vids plz :)

Melrose is hot garbage. So many cute and trendy and unique stores, absolutely no way to get there without fighting tooth and nail for a parking spot among drivers going 40mph. That has always struck me as a street that could benefit from a road diet, or a complete ban on private vehicles.

For those that aren't old enough. The whole idea of West Hollywood becoming a city 1984. Was that Los Angeles County didn't accommodate the needs of it's residents in WeHo. As a gay meca, al fresco restaurant, open patio bars, safety, and pedestrian friendly environment. When we "underscore" safety & pedestrian friendly. I guess that got lost in translation. Statistics show high vehicle/pedestrian injury. High traffic congestion for most residents that only travel three miles in Weho; and NO alternative option in transportation. Meaning the stroad barrier Santa Monica Blvd poses.

LA / SoCal physically has a ridiculous amount of things in common with Netherlands. Both flood prone, massive producers in agriculture, largest ports in their respective hemispheres, niche industries (startups and entertainment), very progressive policies and similar populations. With how wide LA's streets are too, it'd be even easier to put bike lanes and light rail. Just a matter of public support and political will at this point.

SoCal is so weird in this regard where they have these "dense" stroads with tons on streetfront shops. Like just applying any road diet or adding some protected bike lanes would make it a very enjoyable street. El Cajon Blvd in east San Diego is the same way, just an awful to hangout compared to other streets with 2 lanes of traffic and some attempts at road diets.

Let people work Remote! No one really needs to be in the office. It is a scam by CRE elites. Only C-Suite can afford to live need big Corporations. Convert Offices into housing. #wfhforever

These should be protecting the “real” steel & concrete bollards underneath! Even if only a few random steel bollards were installed on each block, people would learn they can’t drive over them!

These plastic bollards (or “sticks” as we have in Denver) are big city answers to appeasing the public that wants something but lacking the political will & willingness to prioritize the city budgets for actual improvements to the streets. Smaller municipalities have the ability to do more of the real change, more quickly. In the meantime, we need to pressure the Big Bureaucracy that created these problems, to stay focused on the real & important issues, not just urgent ones.

This makes a lot more sense now to explain the less car-oriented street construction on Melrose Ave I experienced when walking from Hollywood/Highland to Rodeo Dr last month. Thanks to your video, I now know WeHo is a separate city from Los Angeles (wasn’t a big issue in 1984 with the Olympics getting the limelight)😊. I wish their efforts could extend beyond their borders!

LA is not the Netherlands. It has a better climate and more usable potential network for cycling, and more room to implement those changes.

Whenever you hear that excuse "we're not Amsterdam", recall this: neither was Amsterdam! In the 1970s it was a car choked metropolis, just like Los Angeles. But then citizens took to the streets to protest and demand change after too many children's death, and that led them on a long 40 year transition to where we are today. So even there, it didn't happen overnight, and it only happened because of citizens demanding it. Keep up the good fight!

3:57 FACTS also came from youtube recommend - mico, a man part of gen z (: age 18 :)

Not this guy saying "we're not the netherlands"... people just can't cope with any improvements

Hope to see progress made soon!!

It never hit me that WeHo residents live less than 3 miles from their daily amenities. Yet there's still no safe efficient way to get to those amenities but by car. How stupid.

The point you make at 1:54 is so devastating. The city will put in a half-hearted effort to provide alternatives to driving, then when it doesn't work out, everyone points at it and says only cars will work. This is what I anticipate will happen with the Venice Blvd bus lanes. They took away an entire lane to dedicate to buses, only to make the frequency of the buses every TEN minutes during rush hour (only 6 buses an hour!)! In Chicago, the buses come up to every THREE minutes (up to 20 buses an hour!) when they're going down the dedicated bus lanes on Chicago Ave! People will inevitably point at the Venice bus lanes and call them another failure. Also, it always warms my little heart to see people reference how Lancaster just completely re-imagined their downtown for the betterment of everyone.

Great video! One big issue is that LADOT is only 1 of 4 main agencies in charge of LA’s streets. They don’t have the resources and authority to pour concrete needed for more substantial safe streets. This would require Bureau of Engineering and StreetsLA to step in, or LADOT to get specific grants to fund a private contractor that could do the work. To make real progress, city council needs to be bold and actively encourage collaboration between departments, and get more funding to hire more people to do this work. But very few people in charge have the vision to understand how safe streets need to be a priority.

Most of the bollards are battered. Thanks for the video. Many areas are both no barriers and no sidewalks. To see the European cities with their no cars mandates makes me dream with envy. A local Los Angeles official years ago even said that pedestrians don’t have the right of way! That’s how car centric socal is. Look out you guys.