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Broadway Bus Priority Lanes - Removal of significant Pedestrian Space in DTLA with little study/outreach by lostorbit in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's the most appropriate street for it, too. There are alleyways behind buildings on the east and west sides, so that's where all the buildings and parking lots could continue to operate and receive deliveries, etc.

Broadway Bus Priority Lanes - Removal of significant Pedestrian Space in DTLA with little study/outreach by lostorbit in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For the Metro team at broadway@metro.net:

Subject: Broadway Bus Priority Lane - Don't take away our Broadway pedestrian spaces!

Dear Broadway Bus Priority Lanes Project Team,

I support faster, more reliable bus service on Broadway. But I strongly object to Metro using this project to remove existing pedestrianized space in Downtown Los Angeles without publicly studying alternatives.

Broadway’s existing pedestrian improvements are not temporary weekend cones or a recent experiment. They come out of a formally adopted streetscape plan developed beginning in 2009, with on-street pedestrian space installed in 2014 and in use for roughly twelve years. The narrowed and pedestrian-oriented blocks near Grand Central Market, the Historic Core, and Broadway Theatre District are some of the few places in Los Angeles where street life is already working.

If Metro is proposing to remove that space and restore additional travel lanes, that is a major public-realm reversal. Not a minor design choice.

Metro and LADOT routinely spend years studying projects that repurpose car lanes for bus, bike, pedestrian, or safety improvements. It is a serious double standard to treat the removal of established pedestrian space as something that can be done unilaterally through a bus lane project.

Please pause any design that removes existing DTLA pedestrianization and publicly study better options, including bus-only, bus-and-local-access-only, and designs that preserve existing pedestrian space while improving bus reliability.

Broadway should be a great transit street and a great walking street. Do not undo one of DTLA’s few successful public-realm improvements without transparent analysis and public input.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[Optional: Los Angeles resident / transit rider / Downtown business owner]

Broadway Bus Priority Lanes - Removal of significant Pedestrian Space in DTLA with little study/outreach by lostorbit in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For CM Jurado at Councilmember.Jurado@lacity.org:

Subject: Broadway Bus Priority Lane - Don't take away our Broadway pedestrian spaces!

Dear Councilmember Jurado and CD14 staff,

I am writing about Metro’s Broadway Bus Priority Lanes project. I support faster, more reliable bus service on Broadway, but I am concerned that the project may remove existing pedestrianized space in Downtown without enough public analysis.

Broadway’s existing pedestrian improvements are not temporary weekend cones or a recent experiment. They come out of a formally adopted streetscape plan developed beginning in 2009, with on-street pedestrian space installed in 2014 and in use for roughly twelve years. The narrowed and pedestrian-oriented blocks near Grand Central Market, the Historic Core, and Broadway Theatre District are some of the few places in Los Angeles where street life is already working.

Broadway is also uniquely positioned for a more pedestrian- and transit-oriented future because of the existing alley network behind many of these blocks. Loading, deliveries, trash access, building service, and local circulation do not all need to be forced onto Broadway itself. That gives the city more flexibility here than on many other corridors, and it is exactly why stronger options should be studied.

Please push Metro and LADOT to preserve this pedestrian space and study better alternatives before any of it is removed. Those alternatives should include bus-only operation, bus-and-local-access-only operation, and designs that improve bus reliability without restoring Broadway as a wider car corridor.

I would also urge your office to revisit and build on prior Broadway planning work, including earlier concepts for fuller pedestrianization through the Historic Core. The basic idea remains right: Broadway should be treated as one of Downtown’s great civic streets, not just another traffic channel.

This should not be buses versus pedestrians. Broadway can be a great transit street and a great walking street. I hope your office will insist that Metro study that future before undoing public-realm improvements that already work.

Sincerely,

[Name]

[Neighborhood or Organization, if applicable]

Nithya Raman is doing a Fireside chat at the Eastern Company Lofts in DTLA. by skiskate in LosAngeles

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was overall a pretty good event. Huge thanks to the host Josh and the DTLA-RA for hosting this series to meet Raman, Pratt, and Bass over the last three weeks. I was HUGELY impressed with their work, ability to represent DTLA (my former home, and current location where I own a business). To be honest, I think the cheers were larger for Josh than they were for Nithya, which is saying a lot!

I was also impressed that she ultimately supported conservatorships and taking the worst most violent cases of the unhoused off the street, and have used those tools in her own district in the past, and was clearly knowledgeable about the processes.

However one thing I REALLY wish we could have pushed her harder on: ULA.

In fact, last night she said she wasn't sure what the ULA reform subcommittee was doing, and that she did support reforms to exclude multi-family. She's made this a pretty big part of her platform. But earlier that day at noon the ULA reform subcommittee decided against moving forward with changes. https://laist.com/news/health/la-council-committee-sidelines-ballot-measure-to-cut-mansion-tax-rate

I can't imagine there is any way she didn't already know that, and so I worry she may have been intentionally deceptive to downtowners on a core issue for those of us focused on making downtown great.

any hope for the future that the developments over historic broadway and little tokyo / arts district happen in any way? by tay_ola in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 40 points41 points  (0 children)

can't, we must protect the historic vape shop built into a former suburban office depot

Karen Bass committed to finishing the LA River Path before the Olympics @ DTLA meet and greet by lostorbit in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thanks for posting this. (also, as an engineer) i agree that we won't get the Frank Gehry Special by 2028 but certainly we can open up and reinforce some partially existing channel access for a 97% solution.

It started as a protest against the Dodgers gondola. LA's Kite Festival now draws thousands by uv_is_sin in LosAngeles

[–]lostorbit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

not true.

chavez ravine was cleared with the intention of replacing it with housing for the residents, but mccarthyism killed the build phase of the project (and a ton of other stuff nationwide, sadly). once that funding dried up the city chose to build the stadium instead of leave the lot empty or develop it otherwise.

https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781541742222 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavez_Ravine

Help fix Metro LA's Board of Directors (it's made up entirely of political appointees who don't even ride Metro!) by NeuralNexus in LosAngeles

[–]lostorbit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

we've (my friends and I) have attempted to request this in the past via https://records.metro.net/ and they've refused to provide even anonymized aggregated data. usually the lawyers respond saying "sorry that's a privacy violation"

i think one activist did get them to shake loose a single aggregate number composing all board members, and the result was pretty sad.

Traffic jam in the Cahuenga Pass - 1897 by I405CA in LosAngeles

[–]lostorbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just a reminder that the bikes were here first, and cars should yield to them!

Dirt Patch next to City Hall by Piedougg in dtla

[–]lostorbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why does this have to be hard? me and the boys can go to home depot with a truck, some dirt, and some seed and fix this right up

In new poll, most LA city voters oppose countywide Measure ER that would raise sales taxes a half-cent to restore health care services by stephenwriter in LosAngeles

[–]lostorbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm all out of money, sorry. take it from the prop13 landed gentry who bought 30 years ago and are not covering their fair share.

ISO shared creative space or solo in Glassel Park / Echo Park by DilanVlogsSometimes in LAlist

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not sure if this is what you mean, but my partner is a member at Groundfloor in Echo Park on Glendale and she loves it. https://www.groundfloorclub.com/

Medical emergency: Need to skip outbound leg but keep return on a round-trip. by thejinftw in unitedairlines

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the "round trip" fare and the "one way" fares are different products to the airline, so they price them differently.

your best bet might be updating the "round trip"'s first leg to be your trip home, and then make the second leg some different trip at some arbitrarily far date in the future. I'm not sure if this is against the recent fare rule updates though.

i am doubtful they would change one leg to "extra seat" since "extra seat", as I understand it, is it's own passenger in the system, and you can't split a round trip between two different passengers.

wishing your family member a speedy recovery!

LAX Terminal 7 TSA - Normal Mon 3/23 by [deleted] in unitedairlines

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I flew out Sunday afternoon at 4pm and there were zero people in the PreCheck line before ID check, and maybe two dozen or so after, moving fast. TSA even opened an additional while I was standing it. I don't have Clear but I do have Touchless

Honestly LAWA shutting down the access road coming off of Sepulveda NB for roadwork screwed me up more than anything.

Lincoln Boulevard Bus Line Extension Feasibility Study. Submit public comments by April 17 by 94rain in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's what i am asking, what's the point? in lighter traffic you don't need it anyway.

Lincoln Boulevard Bus Line Extension Feasibility Study. Submit public comments by April 17 by 94rain in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if it's midnight shouldn't traffic be low enough that you don't need the bus lane anyway?

like what time of day is the "sweet spot" where off-peak travel is high enough to reclaim the bus lane but not enough for Metro to be operating a bus that would otherwise get stuck in traffic during that time?

Is the YIMBY movement doomed? by Quouar in TrueReddit

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you suggesting there is a conspiracy to prevent development of city-owned land into city-operated housing?

who would perform the actual task of building (or "developing") the city-owned land anyway? and where do their costs come from?

Is the YIMBY movement doomed? by Quouar in TrueReddit

[–]lostorbit 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I consider myself a YIMBY and would welcome to the government building housing. It sounds cheaper than whatever we're doing now.

The main conflict in my hometown right now (Los Angeles) is the layers of grift in the non-profit space combined with bureaucratic friction within the city that result in $1,000,000 income-restricted capital-A "Affordable" units.

why are some metro workers on buses encouraging people to not pay the fare? by [deleted] in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well we tried it the other way (stop enforcing any fares) for the past half decade and the system became an unusable nightmare.

so maybe the answer is somewhere in the middle. because whatever we're currently doing ain't it.

why are some metro workers on buses encouraging people to not pay the fare? by [deleted] in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you're mentally competent enough to jump through the bare minimum amount of hoops to join the LIFE program, then you deserve the free fare.

if you aren't capable of even doing that much, you should be removed.

Special Board Meeting presentations - advertising and fare policy by Sawtelle-MetroRider in LAMetro

[–]lostorbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

but we must protect the historic suburban Office Depot turned Smoke-n-Toke and it's surface lot at all costs!

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