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I lived in LA for a year around 2010. I don't drive. LA has some amazing qualities for cycling: (1) Really damn wide streets. (2) Excellent weather. (3) Buses t

I lived in LA for a year around 2010. I don't drive. LA has some amazing qualities for cycling: (1) Really damn wide streets. (2) Excellent weather. (3) Buses that let you throw your bike on a flip-down rack at the front. (4) Awesome nearby scenery and great views. My understanding is, since living there, LA has embraced cycling. Good on you LA! In life, there are two kinds of people: some people drive, and others are driven. - Non-driving successful executive and friend of the CEO of the first and only public company I worked for.

ShadowBanThis01 4y ago
That on its own is not informative. WHERE in L.A.? Buses are subject to traffic like everything else, and they don't go everywhere at all hours. Blanket statements like yours are not applicable to L.A., just as the aforementioned fantasy-based excuses for eliminating automotive infrastructure are not. Of course, that doesn't stop the shamming and scamming. Here's another developer handout: Developers are now allowed to demolish a single house and replace it with 10 units of housing, no permits or review required (or possible). That means more trees cut down, more ground paved over and not retaining water, more blight. Meanwhile, massive Macy's and Fry's stores sit boarded up in dying malls in the center of vast parking lots that are growing weeds. And developers get even more handouts under this legislation (SB9/10) if the neighborhood they're wrecking is near a "mass-transit corridor." You know what counts as "mass transit" under this fraud? ONE ZIPCAR in a four-block quadrant. One. No word on what happens if that car gets wrecked, stolen, or otherwise removed. Do they tear the giant monoliths down? I am up for bikes as legitimate transit, make no mistake. But that's another fun thing about L.A.: They put in poorly-executed bike lanes (and I do support and use bike lanes) but the lanes go for a few blocks and then just... disappear. You're riding along and then POOF. No more bike lane. Years later, nothing has changed in those spots. That's even more offensive: local politicians pander to NIMBYs with initiatives like "Vision Zero," then half-ass it and publicly congratulate themselves. Actually, that's too much credit; they quarter-ass it at best. Oh, and the result of "Vision Zero?" INCREASED pedestrian fatalities: https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/pedestrian-deaths-rams/vision-zero https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/pedestrian-deaths... That's because nobody has the balls to ruthlessly combat the real threat to cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers: TEXTING while driving. It should be a DUI-level offense with the same penalties.
jay3ss 4y ago
I've lived there for most of my life and was riding my bike at around the same time and my experience was very different. Every day I'd have people purposefully try to run me off the road while I was biking and some cities in LA don't allow you to ride a bike on the sidewalk. Your experience definitely depends on which part(s) of LA you're in
throwaway22032 4y ago
You lived in LA, you don't drive, and you think that cycling works? Cycling worked in LA to get places? Really? This is clearly a troll. You either spent all of your time in a tiny radius or you're just making it up completely. Things are 20-50 miles apart in LA unless you spend all of your time in one little neighbourhood. I mean, it's nice on the beach.

ShadowBanThis01 4y ago

That on its own is not informative. WHERE in L.A.? Buses are subject to traffic like everything else, and they don't go everywhere at all hours. Blanket statements like yours are not applicable to L.A., just as the aforementioned fantasy-based excuses for eliminating automotive infrastructure are not. Of course, that doesn't stop the shamming and scamming. Here's another developer handout: Developers are now allowed to demolish a single house and replace it with 10 units of housing, no permits or review required (or possible). That means more trees cut down, more ground paved over and not retaining water, more blight. Meanwhile, massive Macy's and Fry's stores sit boarded up in dying malls in the center of vast parking lots that are growing weeds. And developers get even more handouts under this legislation (SB9/10) if the neighborhood they're wrecking is near a "mass-transit corridor." You know what counts as "mass transit" under this fraud? ONE ZIPCAR in a four-block quadrant. One. No word on what happens if that car gets wrecked, stolen, or otherwise removed. Do they tear the giant monoliths down? I am up for bikes as legitimate transit, make no mistake. But that's another fun thing about L.A.: They put in poorly-executed bike lanes (and I do support and use bike lanes) but the lanes go for a few blocks and then just... disappear. You're riding along and then POOF. No more bike lane. Years later, nothing has changed in those spots. That's even more offensive: local politicians pander to NIMBYs with initiatives like "Vision Zero," then half-ass it and publicly congratulate themselves. Actually, that's too much credit; they quarter-ass it at best. Oh, and the result of "Vision Zero?" INCREASED pedestrian fatalities: https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/pedestrian-deaths-rams/vision-zero https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/pedestrian-deaths... That's because nobody has the balls to ruthlessly combat the real threat to cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers: TEXTING while driving. It should be a DUI-level offense with the same penalties.

jay3ss 4y ago

I've lived there for most of my life and was riding my bike at around the same time and my experience was very different. Every day I'd have people purposefully try to run me off the road while I was biking and some cities in LA don't allow you to ride a bike on the sidewalk. Your experience definitely depends on which part(s) of LA you're in

throwaway22032 4y ago

You lived in LA, you don't drive, and you think that cycling works? Cycling worked in LA to get places? Really? This is clearly a troll. You either spent all of your time in a tiny radius or you're just making it up completely. Things are 20-50 miles apart in LA unless you spend all of your time in one little neighbourhood. I mean, it's nice on the beach.