$965 a month to own the average new car and nobody blinks. a transit agency raises the fare a quarter and it's a crisis hearing with angry public comment. we audit the bus to the penny and hand the car a blank check. interesting which one we call subsidized
In a perfect world Nithya's campaign would kick into high gear, lead a bike bus at Ciclavia, a late-night taco stand and explain how it makes the street safer, ride around with Angelyne, go to Santee Alley, Leimert Park drum circle on a Sunday, go to the Abbott Elementary set etc
ADUs are really changing the feel of LA’s residential neighborhoods
front yard & porch cultures are slowly but surely developing, less household crowding now that multigenerational families can build multiple units, new & more neighbors from rentals, more ppl walking around
LA deliberately cut its housing capacity from ~10M to ~4M homes through single-family zoning. It hit that cap in the 1990s, then added 5x more jobs than homes 2010–2015.
The result is one of the world's least affordable cities.
I will never understand how so many of y'all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money YOU PAY IN TAXES to create a social safety net that benefits YOU.
a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways