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Unrelated note: I liked those downtown blue street signs from the pre-Olympics. Wish they had stuck around.

Three areas in my personal experience that are horrible from a pedestrian experience, two from lack of good design and the third because drivers ignore it:

1 – Piedmont Ave in the Lindbergh area. There are not any mid-block crosswalks from the Main St of the City Center development to the other side of Piedmont. People jaywalk here constantly with their only protection being a narrow strip of concrete in the middle of Piedmont.
2 – the area around Inman Quarter along Highland between Alaska and Elizabeth. A total lack of crosswalks along with convergence of cars, bikes, peds, and scooters make this area basically a shared space without the design to safely accommodate such.
3 – the marked crosswalk crossing Piedmont at 15th St between Ansley Park and Piedmont Park. Drivers absolutely ignore this crosswalk. I’ve seen a lady with a stroller crossing there and cars just zoomed right by as she was in the crosswalk.

Once again, you don’t bring any actual evidence to bear. As I’ve already pointed out, we cram far, far more people here into an area the size of Miami. We cram far, far more people into a region the size of the Miami-Dade region. There are literally more Angelenos within walking distance of Wilshire Blvd. than in all Miami. I never made a comparison to Manhattan (where I’ve lived), which is uniquely dense in America. I responded to your nonsense claim that Miami was denser than LA and thus we couldn’t have transit like they do in Miami. But you can’t point to a single zip code, not one of the dozens of codes, that is even half as dense as the densest in LA. It’s not about skyscrapers — Paris has 56,000 people per square mile and a height limit in most of the city of 121 feet. That’s how density happens — lots of midrise apartments. LA, with the second highest percentage of renters in America, is full of these. About 1.5 million Angelenos live in them, or three times Miami’s entire population. They are being built at an enormous rate, and our city will just continue to grow more dense.

It’s no longer about the evidence, it’s about you not being able to accept the evidence. That’s not an interesting conversation any longer.

I’m not sure what your point is. 14k an acre for prime waterfront less than 3 miles from the city center would be absurdly low for a mid-tier city. Property taxes on half an acre on Lake Michigan on the north side of Milwaukee push 50k/year. Letting these rates stay absurdly low are why other land uses have to get taxed at ridiculous levels to make up for it. I’m not at all claiming that Chicago has low taxes. I am claiming that some properties tend to be irrationally exempt from the same tax rate as other uses, and we should definitely question that.

These cities you speak of with "half the taxes, fees" also tend to encourage sprawl and tract housing. Once they have to deal with their aging housing stock, infrastructure and lack of public transit, we’ll see how many people stick around when the higher taxes inevitably come.

That’s ridiculous. There are 500,000 people living along the Wilshire corridor, which is more than the entire population of Miami. And as the zip code information I posted above proves, they are more densely packed. So let’s lay it out in the clearest, starkest terms. Miami is 55 square miles. In those 55 square miles, 463,000 people live. Central Los Angeles is almost exactly the same size, 58 square miles. The population? 836,638. That’s right, Los Angeles fits NEARLY DOUBLE the population into an area the same size as Miami. Central Los Angeles is twice as dense as Miami, and it’s not the only dense part of the city. South Los Angeles has 51 square miles, slightly smaller than Miami. The population? 768K.
Again, I don’t think you’ve actually ever been to Los Angeles.

Your "solution" is based on a false assumption that adding a dedicated bus lane would result in less people driving and more people taking the bus. All this would do is cause gridlock on major arterials and push traffic onto residential side streets as people try to find alternate routes.

For those of us who have lived here long enough we remember over a decade ago when they added the dedicated bus line on Wilshire Blvd in West LA and then later removed it because it didn’t work. Now Mayor Yoga Pants and his livable streets activists added back the dedicated bus lane and, yet again, it isn’t resulting in less cars or more bus ridership. It is merely causing more gridlock and adding carbon emissions from cars idling.

no. sofla has high rises near the water, followed by 5-7 storey buildings slightly inland, with suburban sprawl towards the everglades. that’s the beauty of florida: something for everyone. dirt cheap houses all the way to some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

it’s physically possible (and quite easy) to link up the mid/high rise areas with public transport. especially since they’re quite linear/narrow in design.

los angeles simply doesn’t work like that. it’s a bunch of far-flug, garden style apartments and single family houses spread over a huge area, with strict zoning (mixed use is uncommon). the city was built around the automobile. you’d have to raze the entire place and start over, for metros and whatnot to make sense.

More grade separations does mean more expensive but I have to disagree with you that getting to SM was the most important thing. What should have been a crowning achievement (or game-changer as everyone likes to say) second only to the Wilshire subway is a mess and MTA PR nightmare.

Miami will be submerged.

Add Newport Beach/Costa Mesa, Long Beach, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Ventura Blvd. corridor, Santa Monica, Century City, Wilshire Blvd corridor to DTLA and Miami is puny in comparison.

Guaranteed: there are people living in single family houses in Miami who do not want to live high density.

What isn’t mentioned is adjacent to these homes is a vacant lot that a development had started but no movement in months other than initial site prep. Not sure what the status is of this.

Also, directly across the street is Trestle Tree. However, within a block on either side are other new construction homes, some of which that have sold in the mid-$800Ks. Another small ranch on this street was recently torn down and a new home going up.

The architecture certainly doesn’t fit with Grant Park. Will be interesting to see how much longer it takes to sell these.

The original Weekends on Peachtree where the Federal Reserve now stands was even more fun. They had a 24 hour license and RuPaul as a go-go dancer, along with Larry Tee and countless others that went on to bigger and better things. Mid 80s and early 90s Midtown was one hell of a playground!