Can L.A. Really Pull Off a “Car-Free” Olympics?
""Moving ‘car-free games’ from marketing slogan to reality would have required the government sending clear, unambiguous signals that the city and county would de-prioritize automobile transportation relative to other modes"
I suspect LA will try to provide bike paths and transit while still leaving all the car lanes and storage in place, which probably won't work.
#LosAngeles #CarsRuinEverything
Biking in LA is in fine rage form today.
"Despite at least four deaths on the same section of roadway in just nine years, some people still seem to think they should have the unfettered, God-given right to go zoom zoom whenever and wherever they want, innocent lives be damned."
Torched: The failure of LA’s 28 by 28 plan
"LA leaders began appending additional Olympics deadlines across agencies and departments. Major subway expansions would be complete, a train would finally go to the airport, popular museums and tourist destinations would get much-needed makeovers...But now, with four years until the opening ceremonies, it's clear that many of these things aren't happening at all."
Woohoo, Los Angeles passes HLA by a nearly two-to-one margin!
"Measure HLA requires Los Angeles to re-engineer some of the region’s most storied boulevards, reducing traffic lanes, building more space for bicyclists and buses, and providing better protections for pedestrians. It calls for 238 miles of protected bike lanes, hundreds more unprotected lanes"
Next we'll see how serious the administration will be about actually doing it.
#LosAngeles #UrbanPlanning
Voters in car-centric L.A. approve Measure HLA to make room on streets for bikes, buses
Firefighters contend a Los Angeles complete streets ballot measure would cost lives by slowing down fire trucks.
But drivers killed 336 people in L.A. last year, compared to 14 who died in fires.
"What's especially bonkers about the firefighters' opposition to HLA is that they are almost alone. The list of groups that have endorsed it is not just long -- it's also among the most diverse you could ever imagine in Los Angeles."
Los Angeles: How Hard Some City Leaders Are Fighting Against Safer Streets
"When CAO Szabo says that if HLA passes, the city would pay $2.5 to $3.1 billion dollars repairing and upgrading city sidewalks and adding bike and bus lanes over the next decade, my first thought is, "Can I get that promise in writing?"
It would be really cool if this measure passes. Biking in LA would become a lot nicer.
Ouf. Biking in LA blog gets bragadocious.
"Czech carmaker Škoda’s We Love Cycling website offers advice on how to keep riding your ebike through the cold and snowy winter months. Or as we call that in LA, somewhere else."
The single most deadly roadway for bike riders in Los Angeles and Orange counties, the Pacific Coast Highway, claimed the lives of four Pepperdine students on Tuesday.
"The overly wide traffic lanes, high speed limits that were nearly universally exceeded, slip lane right turns and roadside parking were all necessary to prevent excessive traffic congestion, or so we were told."
Improvements for the Marvin Braude Beach Trail have reached the finish line
"The Marvin Braude Bike Trail is a 22-mile path that stretches along the Los Angeles County coastline, from Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades to Torrance County Beach in Torrance. The $6.5 million project connects the City of Santa Monica’s dedicated bikeway and pedestrian path through the City of Los Angeles to Will Rogers State Beach."
Improvements for the Marvin Braude Beach Trail have reached the finish line • The Malibu Times
Good op-ed from the Los Angeles Times on dumping parking minimums.
"Rather than minimum requirements for parking, cities should be enforcing maximum limits for parking spaces per building. The state took action to improve density of development around transit stops. It’s now up to Los Angeles to end parking minimums more broadly, as cities such as San Jose, San Francisco and San Diego have already done."
#UrbanPlanning #parking #LosAngeles
Op-Ed: L.A. should stop requiring developers to waste space on parking
Bike lockers now available at five Los Angeles K line stations.
