Looking at Google streetview, this is a classic overbuilt multilane stroad with 40mph speed limit. Which means the city could have had both the parking spaces and a bike lane (parking protected even!) while only losing one auto lane per direction. Such a configuration would also fix the speeding issue.
In her ruling, Elder said the city violated the terms of its original 1840 plat, which designated Main and Center streets for public travel
The Model T would not come along for another ~70 years after that Plat map was filed. Perhaps one way around the ruling is to still permit horses.
Did California even get affected by high egg prices? During the worst of the bird flu, egg prices at my Bay Area supermarket were quite stable – probably because of those stricter state requirements.
They just have to follow the correct procedures
Funny how courts only apply this requirement to agencies when run under Democrats. Meanwhile, RFK is ignoring all basic procedures to stop vaccines, etc…
Should be noted that Damon Connolly (the legislator trying to shut the bike lane) was convicted for DUI hit-and-run. It says a lot about the current state of political affairs that he was elected to the Assembly as opposed to serving a jail term.
Converting the bike lane to auto lane wouldn’t fix traffic anyway. Just beyond the bridge the road is only two lanes (really 1-lane as most of the traffic is getting on the 101 exit). Traffic studies by Caltrans showed that putting 3 lanes on the bridge would actually make things worse.
Meanwhile, here in California seniors are never required to re-take the driving exam unless the DMV was notified by a doctor of a medical issue.
The auto industry spends $30+ billion per year on advertising. Some of that takes the form of product-placement in TV/movies.
Dreeshen (author of the letter) previously worked on the Trump campaign, though lately he seems not to want to talk about that…
The Federal budget is passed annually, and all spending bills must originate in the House.
Ford stock has always been a terrible investment. Its PE ratio is a single digit for good reason.
The Mayor actually has very little control over the MTA.
And that $17 million is being paid by taxpayers.
You’ve got ludicrous helmet laws and declining bike mode share…sorry but Australia is moving in the wrong direction.
Public funding for California’s transportation system comes from numerous sources. Historically, about one-third of total transportation funding has come from state sources [gas tax]. Local sources—such as local sales tax revenues, transit fares, and city and county general funds—have made up slightly less than half of total funding. The remaining amount (roughly one-fifth of total funding in most years) comes from federal sources that are provided to the state or directly to local governments.
https://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4821/ZEV-Impacts-on-Transportation-121323.pdf
This map cannot be correct. For example, it shows California drivers paying much of the costs of their highways and that is not the case at all.
Yes, they actually are:
That hardly seems a problem given the huge oversupply of parking. There is more than 3x parking spaces per vehicle in LA. Not to mention most of the existing SFH built under old code has a private parking space anyway.
Risk Compension predicts that drivers would simply use this new information to drive more aggressively, negating any possible safety benefits.
It is spite coding though.
He probably has a bunch of gotos too.