The LA firefighter union often makes completely baseless claims. I wish we could simply rely on data and experts, not under-informed union bosses to guide our policymaking.

This morning we gathered with friends, family, and neighbors to honor Blake. He was killed by a driver while riding on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood. We will honor his memory by continuing to fight for safer streets for everyone.

damn metro's really still doing freeway expansions in the year 2025? 🤔💸 embarrassing

if only there were a movie theater complex nearby that has been vacant for decades...

Often find myself dreaming about the 4 with bus-only lanes

We’re all effectively subsidizing this mansion.

Makes sense. Your configuration would be so much safer. It’s always a bit of a clencher biking through there 😬

This would be such a massive improvement. I wonder if the right turn lanes not having to yield to traffic would encourage higher than desired vehicle speeds, especially at ped crossings.

Quiet quitting is hard

Karen Bass plans to further abandon the city's responsibilities to its residents, scrapping all street and transportation projects except those directly related to upcoming megaevents. If the city can't provide the bare minimum to its residents, it should not be hosting the Olympics.

Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.

This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

At the very least it would be worth considering for San Vicente, which is comically wide. Looks like it would almost entirely fit under the center median. The WeHo and Fairfax alignments have some ~90º turns, not sure if that's difficult with cut-and-cover under the street grid vs TBM.

This could save billions and speed up the timeline, but I guarantee my neighbors would have a conniption if there were months-long closures of Fairfax and Santa Monica Blvd. I'm curious if some of the streets are wide enough to only have partial closures and lane reductions during construction.

Sprawl produces super commuters. We already have the answers to traffic: build denser housing closer to jobs, invest in public transit, design streets that are safe for all modes of transport.

Those graphs really highlight LAPD’s department-wide quiet quitting. Reduced citations and arrests as roadway fatalities and serious injuries are increasing. I guess road design and automated enforcement are the only real tools we have left.

The city will be legally required to add protected bike lanes next time Vermont needs repaving (or any general road improvements). It would be much cheaper to do it now while the street is already being overhauled. Too bad the city and metro aren’t thinking about how to best use taxpayer dollars.

In LA we have our own Elon Musk, Ticketmasters's Fred Rosen, who is spending the few years that he has left on this planet doing all he can to block a much-need transit project that would better connect the valley to the rest of the city, with a station at one of the region's largest employers.

Have our Bel-Air oligarchs had their way?

The mid-block riverside crossing is a lil sketch but I think worth it to get to the very chill ped bridge over the river

I'd go fountain to bronson up to the hollywood bike lanes, then vermont to franklin and squiggle over to the pedestrian bridge over the LA river

Every time a freeway is expanded I have to wonder what was defunded

Even when there’s no money, there’s always money for freeways

$34/yr for preferential permits and $15/yr for overnight permits. That’s very low for private use of public space— well below the market value for that resource.

Require LAPD officers to take personal liability insurance, tax private golf courses, overweight personal vehicle tax, automated red light / speed cameras, standardized multifamily housing plans, recategorize scientology lol

This is all in the context of a Los Angeles that cannot afford to provide an acceptable base level of services to residents. LADOT often cites lack of funding for simple things like street repaving, curb ramps, bollards, & speed bumps.

Worth noting that these comparisons are based on single-family zoned land. If we compared land values to nearby multi-unit zoned land these numbers would be even higher.

Los Angeles is missing out on several hundred million dollars in tax revenue every year due to these tax breaks that benefit the very richest Angelenos.

Bel-Air Country Club
87 Acres
Assessed Value: $12.4M

218 Strada Corta Rd
.73 Acres
For Sale: $31.5M (Land-only Assessed at $2.9M, 2020)

Given the assessed value of nearby land, Bel-Air CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $340M

Los Angeles Country Club
308 Acres
Assessed Value: $22.2M

722 N Camden Dr
0.36 Acres
For Sale: $22.5M (Land-only Assessed at $9.2M, 2021)

Given the assessed value of nearby land, LA CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $8B.