more than 500 people have been killed in traffic crashes on LA streets since HLA was passed
06.03.2026 01:23
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more than 500 people have been killed in traffic crashes on LA streets since HLA was passed
wooooooof
Reporting on public works in LA is laughably hard. City departments refuse to provide even basic details about how the city operates and/or send a 3-line statement that says nothing.
Melrose is in an alluvial plain and crosses multiple seasonal waterways. Water Always Wins (and Uplift Melrose depaving could have alleviated the severity of this event)
bsky.app/profile/awal...
I love this map and it is a reminder of one of my problematic robert moses takes that we should turn west adams into a giant sepulveda basin sized reservoir/lake
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money
good morning la
LA's politicians need to stop listening to NIMBYs and start saving people's lives.
ICE raids have really harmed LA transit ridership this year but the D Line opening is gunna skyrocket us to clear 2nd in a few months and consecutive extensions the next 24 months will only extend the gap
obv would be very difficult to get this off the ground politically before the Sepulveda Line opens but then makes a lot of sense (especially to bond against)
A similar but further off concept could be drawing a box west of the 405 and north of the 10 that funds the D Line to Santa Monica
I want congestion pricing for LA real bad but struggle with the cordon - only charging for a fwy is just a toll pushing people to surface streets
I think the LAX horseshoe is an obvious first pilot location, not clear what should be next
if i haven't seen you out in these streets today i better see an open wallet !!!
these are four LA vendor buyout funds i can personally vouch for and encourage you to support
rippin rear brake
SFA fundraiser featuring spoken word readings of Fred Rosen emails
We could have built thousands of units of athlete housing that became affordable housing the day after the games ended
about half of the 8mi project is elevated in the LA river channel and has multiple long bridges to cross over the channel or railroads to connect to the street grid
Some recent #largeasphaltrepair photos.
I am kind of astonished that the City Public Works Department #StreetsLA Bureau crews are OK with doing such faulty work like this.
thankfully this is a Caltrans project and they always finish construction on time
LA desperately needs structure reform to Public Works. siloed departments, obfuscated leadership, and oscillating budgets are eroding our largest public assets
this wont be fixed without a charter reform, CIP implementation, and probably a new dedicated infrastructure fund
lol took the same exact photo the other day (truly looks worse in person)
only LA could spend 10x what other cities spend on curb ramps for a worse outcome
there will be pressure on the Metro board the next few years bc of the looming budget deficit, fares will prob go up to $2+ but I don't think it gets close to doubling revenue or significantly increasing service, probably just buoys current ops against inflation
agree about bus speeds
metro fare rev is $175m of a $3b operating budget (~6%). I don’t think raising fares is a service panacea (if that’s the assumption)
When the city scraped off our crosswalks, they also removed our memorial to Nadir. Today we went to put it back and the cops made us stop. But no matter how hard they try, the city can’t erase the memory of Nadir or their own negligence that contributed to his death.
LAWA is claiming this project is a drop in the bucket of the regional transportation system (new lane miles, VMT, etc) but is using a 'regional' baseline bigger than all of LA County
Worse, they say that 5.8 lane miles of new roadway is only 0.0062% increase compared to the regional network. I think most people would assume they are speaking to the local roads around LAX
5.8 divided by 0.0062% is over 90k lane miles
That's 3x all the lane miles in the City of LA!!!
this got me digging into this project again and noticed LAWA has a new 'ATMP fact VS. fiction' page and I swear they think people are stupid
www.lawa.org/sites/lawa/f...
"Opponents of this project claim this project will induce 50,000 new VMT. In reality its a measly... 41,000"
not surprising at all, BSS spent a couple days staging a huge amount of equipment outside of my apartment last week just to repave ~100ft of one lane
LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
