It’s very similar to how the pacific electric company built out La in the first place so clearly such a model can work very well in Los Angeles. However is it even legal in today’s context?
The road that SB 194 is forcing to stay dangerous is forest lawn drive, which due to its design has led to 95 crashes between 2012 and 2023. The city has a plan to fix it but SB194 would stop it by carving out exemptions for safety by cemeteries, putting more people in danger as time goes on.
Email this to Gavin Newsom and your representative:
Dear Governor Newsom, I am asking you to veto SB 194 and reject its last-minute attempt to interfere with the Forest Lawn Drive Safety & Mobility Project. Forest Lawn Drive is a dangerously fast street and an important connection to Griffith Park. Between 2013 and 2023, the corridor saw 95 crashes, including three involving severe injury or death. Just weeks ago, another man was killed in a fiery crash directly in front of Mt. Sinai Cemetery. After years of planning and community engagement, LADOT developed a project to reduce speeding and dangerous lane changes, create safer space for people biking, and improve cemetery and emergency access through a new center turn lane. Then, at the eleventh hour, language was slipped into SB 194 creating a special state-law barrier aimed at this one local safety project. Governor, you are now the last line of defense. California should not set a precedent where powerful interests that dislike a bike lane or road-safety project can go to Sacramento and get state law rewritten to target a specific street in a specific city. Politics and pressure from powerful interests should never come before human lives. Please veto SB 194. Forest Lawn Drive has already seen enough crashes, injuries, and deaths. California should be helping cities make dangerous streets safer—not making it harder. Thank you.
Pictured:
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles)
China town (nyc)
Jewish quarter (nyc)
Glendale (basically little Armenia but separate from little Armenia in Los Angeles)
Little Ethiopia (Los Angeles)
Solvang, California (used to be a dainish majority town but not really anymore)
91 year old driver. These continue to happen around the country, why don't we change the rules for elderly drivers??
And stop leaving snacks and trash at the stop people! Chicken smells good thou….
I’ve been looking at the map of NYC’s public transit specifically centered around Manhattan and I realized something. Where are the east-west lines? Most are centered in midtown which makes sense because it’s the widest point. But northern manhattan, around Harlem has no east west line? And nothing to directly connect the q to the upper west side?
I know it’s only a couple miles wide but for transfers it seems odd to not connect in that area? Especially since if it continued under the river it could eventually connect to LaGuardia while reducing traffic on grand central parkway.
I know la is well, pretty terrible with creating connecting transit lines but we do have a grid layout planned out to bypass dtla.
I know there’s a bus but it feels odd to leave northern manhattan and the bronx without east west connections via rail.
For nyc is it just lack of budget or political will?
I know that the second avenue extension has gone through hell.
Is there a place I can find future planned rail lines?
Granted jfk’s renovations were mostly privately funded but nearly 4 billion was from public money.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single private industry steal so much much truly public space to use exclusively for their products worldwide.
In most cities the street was where people hung out and often acted as parks and now they are pollution generating death traps for people, killing up to 400,000 per year worldwide.
For context for Americans or British here that’s about how many Americans or British military members died in all of ww2 every year.
Are there any other instances of mass theft and death annually by private industry outside of like… colonialism?