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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2024
- This March, vote YES on Measure HLA. More on the ballot measure: yesonhla.com.
If you'd like to support me, you can do so here: www.buymeacoffee.com/jon_m
References:
Silverlake History: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
www.latimes.com/business/real...
Mobility Plan 2035: planning.lacity.gov/odocument...
L.A. Times Traffic Deaths: www.latimes.com/california/st...
Paved Roads: lamag.com/news/l-a-paved-more...
Photographs used:
Two Streetcars, Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library.
The Mattachine Steps: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattach...
Griffith Park and Hyperion: www.silverlake.org/historic_p...
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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.
It's so easy to get caught in the urbanist bubble. I truly hope this can break through to the mainstream, but people really just don't want to drive slower.
People who have time to go to public meetings are usually not representative, where I live we do community engagement mostly by sending out surveys to residents and then they send them back, that assures that everyone has a chance to voice their concern instead of only the people who have the time to go to community meetings
The city council members themselves have no idea what it's like to walk down a street or stroad, sit down at a sidewalk cafe, or cycle in car traffic cause they probably get around everywhere by car. Otherwise, they wouldn't listen to those fool attendants.
63% voted Yes
Nah. Not almost completely covered. Not “almost completely covered.” Not “Not almost completely covered”. /
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
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.
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?
They probably don't live under rocks, but they probably all drive cars and don't eat at sidewalk cafes.
And 200 years is a long time to see it get done.
Good video man. Thanks for the info
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.
Lovely vid. If I lived there I would vote.
Same here
I’m voting yes on HLA
-CD14 resident
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.
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.
Based on the LA Times' reporting, that's 300 people in the City of LA alone: www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-14/traffic-deaths-rise-again-in-2022-with-marked-increase-in-pedestrian-fatalities More than half of those are from drivers colliding with pedestrians.
@@j.mizrahi …and this with the tiny number of people who even dare to walk or bike.
Nah. Not a long way to go to be a truly livable city and more. /
"Perfect weather", me who actually likes rain more than sun, Chicago, New York, and Seattle have more perfect weather to me.
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.
If you've ever ridden a bike in a city in the United States you'd quickly realize many people give up biking for transportation because it's too dangerous. Bike lanes are full of parked drivers and/or abruptly end. Few cities have a true bike network that allows people to bike from one end of the city to the other in safety and comfort. You don't see many people on bikes because the city hasn't made it safe for more people to use biking as a safe form of transportation.
The ones in downtown are separated from the parked cars. You haven’t been in downtown 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 !
Streets should be safe enough for someone walking to be able to look at their phone, talk to someone at their side, or whatever else and not be seriously injured or killed.
Also, what if someone was visually impaired? Are they at fault because the road wasn't designed with low vision or zero vision people in mind?
The person with the most potential for harm- drivers in heavy and often fast metal boxes- should exercise the most care and caution.
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.
Actually, there will not be a tax increase due to HLA. The city already laid out a comprehensive plan to make streets safer in 2015, and they already allocate hundreds of millions of dollars per year strictly for street improvements. So nothing will functionally change for taxpayers.
Out of curiosity, what has the city done to "destroy" Silverlake in the past 50 years?
Vote no on HLA.
Guess what passed 🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@handsfortoothpicks I'm from Canada, so I don't get updates of your news. Thanks for the update!
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.
There will be no additional cost for taxpayers to implement HLA. The is already set aside and the plan already exists.
Like I said, Measure HLA requires the city to implement the plans that they ALREADY MADE. It simply forces city officials to actually do their jobs.
Vote no on HLA.