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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on February 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Parking… it’s what cars crave!
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation praises Orange County public-private transit center
- Los Angeles wants home-owners to pay $3,500 to fix broken sidewalks
- New city regulations force Claremont College to provide 220 more parking spaces for students
- City Watch on L.A.’s future: Gotta have
Hearter… Parking
Discussion
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Re: CityWatch:
Personal Rapid Transit, now there’s a cost-effective idea if I’ve ever seen one.
*coughs*.
Translation: “Let’s build more roads and parking garages and daydream about cute shiny pods while we’re stuck in traffic on the 10.”
Re: Sidewalks:
I had to write a personal letter to Mayor V.’s office about getting curb cuts up the street from my apartment for my wheelchair, after 311 proved useless and my Councilmember (Wesson) told me in slightly more polite language to go pound sand. Suffice to say, I’ll vote for a banana before I vote for Wesson when he’s up for re-election. Apparently 311 was useless because I was placed on the above-described waiting list (I’ve otherwise been very satisfied with 311, they usually get graffiti removed same-day). Maybe in 2011 my name will come up and the folks from the city will come out and realize that the Mayor’s office ordered it fixed.
I’m not looking forward to moving and repeating the process.
Having said that, when they were put in, they were well-installed, done with the tactile striping and flush to the slope of the street, much safer than the ones back East, so I have hopes that once they finally get around to doing this, they’re going to do it right.
That seems to be how LA is, isn’t it? Accomplishing something takes 3 times as many people and 5 times as much time as normal, but once it’s done, it’s done quite well.
It seems the supreme dominance of the car culture in Los Angeles won’t die quietly.
“Oh, no, I might actually have to be in a vehicle with other people….”
This CityWatch guy’s dismissal of congestion pricing is knee-jerk and uninformed. Does he realize that, far from being “the great equalizer,” congestion harms low-income drivers much more than higher-income ones? Wealthier people can hire nannies and housekeepers, get take-out food, and even do productive work from behind the wheel when they’re stuck in traffic. The paralegal stuck on the northbound 405 as she goes home to Reseda or Newhall from her job in Century City is a lot less able to deal with the $50/hour late fee for day care than is the corporate lawyer heading back to Calabasas or Valencia.