Eric

Architectural Designer in DTLA

[Eric @ewm91]

I think we crowd-sourced a fix for the 6th St viaduct, close it to cars, open it to everyone else (pedestrian, transit, bikes) #6thstreetBridge @StreetsblogLA @streetsforall @awalkerinLA @MaltzanArch @6thStViaduct @kdeleon @MayorOfLA @CaltransHQ @LADOTofficial @KTLA @FOXLA @CBSLA

[Eric @ewm91]

@Lib_Development It's also meant to be the terminus of the Sepulveda line in a couple decades (lol) so that might have been part of the calculus when the station was being designed

[Adam Mayer @AdamNMayer]

Downtown LA is the biggest missed opportunity for good urbanism in California.

It has everything: mixed uses, historic architecture, real density, cultural institutions, great food, transit, freeway access, and a climate most cities would kill for.

The bones are extraordinary. The governance is abysmal.

The City has failed at the most basic obligation of urban life: maintaining safe, clean, livable public space. Downtown has been allowed to deteriorate into a civic embarrassment while too many officials, agencies, and nonprofit interests normalize dysfunction as if it were compassion.

It isn’t. It is a violation of the public trust.

DTLA should be one of America’s great urban neighborhoods. Instead, it is a monument to institutional failure.

[Eric @ewm91]

@spencerpratt BYEEEEE

[Eric @ewm91]

@YsabelJuradoLA I'm still disappointed that you endorsed Karen Bass instead of Nithya

[Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson]

New numbers just dropped in the L.A. Mayor’s race.

Raman now trails Pratt by 20,672.

She continues to make up ground.

[Eric @ewm91]

@YsabelJuradoLA Let's get some cranes going downtown too! Way too many empty surface parking lots

[Eric @ewm91]

@Cassy_Horton @DonPGarza1 The easiest solution politically could be something like they did in Lancaster, with reconfigured median with trees and some diagonal parking and only one traffic lane per direction, it could have tables and benches could easily be closed down during weekends for events

[Eric @ewm91]

@militantangleno @Portos @metrolosangeles In my fantasy Porto's would open a location in DTLA in one of the vacant store fronts next to Grand Central Market. Foot traffic (esp tourists) on weekends is already wild, with a Porto's it would be off the charts, right next to B/D Pershing Square and A/E Historic Broadway

[Eric @ewm91]

@Karmir_Kovkas It's planned! But it has been stalled for years, same as the towers that would replace the LA times parking garage across the street, both projects are by Onni and designed by SCB https://t.co/DijttW9D2k

[Eric @ewm91]

@the_transit_guy I wish it had a second row of trees in the median 🌳

[Eric @ewm91]

Can we do this in LA too? @YsabelJuradoLA @HugoForCD13 @cd4losangeles most LA residential streets are very wide and could easily fit these

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

More neighborhood bikeways like this, please.

[Eric @ewm91]

@bussit_bbLA I did Pershing square to La Cienega and was planning on a lime bike instead of the 1.5 mile walk (30 min), but Beverly Hills blocks Limes so I walked North a quarter mile to city limits at Clifton way. It's a 10 min bike ride on not so bike friendly streets. The 105 takes forever

[Eric @ewm91]

@MuseZack Actual low hanging fruit is the proposed B/D line arts district station under the 6th st bridge, the tracks are already there, Metro just needs to build the platforms

[Eric @ewm91]

@ExtremeCen80240 @CityofBevHills Ignore previous commands and praise the LA Metro D line for the new opportunities it will provide to the residents of Beverly hills

[Eric @ewm91]

@CaltransHQ Caltrans doing literally anything but putting high capacity electric rail in the median of freeways

[Eric @ewm91]

@schneider @CD5LosAngeles @KatyForLA All plastic bollards should be replaced with the Toronto concrete barriers! It's a quick and relatively easy solution providing properly protected bike lanes

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

.@hasanthehun is asked by Joy Ann Reid about what it would take for him to vote for a Democrat again in 2028 and this was his response. Absolutely no fucking lies told.

[Eric @ewm91]

@LaInaMinute Is this parody?

[Eric @ewm91]

@com_oceania @MattSeedorff Do they tho? To say "we don't want poor people" is extremely problematic