Thursday, October 31, 2013

We Want Our City Back!




In reference to the recent Hyperion Bridge controversy:

We want our city back! Los Angeles was created by the streetcar.  You've been lied to if you think otherwise.

New urbanism is just old urbanism.

Los Angeles was as big as Dallas is today in.....1930!  Btw, there were no freeways in LA in 1930.

The neighborhoods of Atwater, Los Feliz and Silver Lake all have small "downtowns" which grace its boulevards with small lot shops where streetcars delivered people on foot.  They were originally created for this type of slow strolling pedestrian activity.  Not for cars flying through them at 70+mph on their way to the Americana.  I mean, what would have been the point?

The folks that purport "autocentricity now and autocentricity forever" in a George Wallace vernacular  haven't an idea of the history of their neighborhoods much less their city.  I guess the abundance of public stairs all throughout the central hilly core of the city were built to watch cars do donuts on Sunset?!

Stupid! If you want to build a cartopia don't choose a city that has a mountain range bisecting it with limited passageways. Have you checked out those cities in Texas with freeways looping their entire circumference??  Now that's doing cartopia right!  LA, you fail miserably!  I guess it's just not in your DNA.