LA is the Third Best US City For Public Transit Commuting
Actually, Picfair the subway is funded to the 405, it’s just that the funding will only come on line over time. It doesn’t need another tax increase, but you’ll have to wait a decade or more. Extending the subway to "the sea" (Santa Monica) would take another funding source.
What this study is looking at is how many jobs in a given metropolitan area can be reached (starting between 7 and 9 am on a weekday) in 60 minutes or less. He’s not trying to determine what the "best" or easiest to use transit system is. I would say that this study is more detailed and systematic than previous ones. Also, nowadays, cities like Chicago and Washington also have major edge city employment areas that are no easier (and sometimes harder) to reach by transit than the ones in Los Angeles.
On the whole, big cities tend to have more transit accessible jobs than small ones. People move to big cities so they can access more jobs. But if it were just about population size, the rankings would just follow population rankings. Instead, Portland, with better than average transit, came in 11th, even though it’s only the 23rd largest metro area. Conversely, Houston, with far worse transit than LA, ranked 16th, even though it’s the 8th largest metro area.
The study also ranks metro areas by how many jobs can be reached within 10 minutes by transit and walking, 20 minutes and so on. Los Angeles ranks relatively low in jobs accessible within 10 minutes—it’s only 7th. But by the time you get to commutes that take 40 minutes or longer Los Angeles is 3rd. That’s because Los Angeles is a big place, but there are a lot of (relatively long) commutes you can do by transit. Boston had the opposite pattern—ranked high on short commutes, lower on longer commutes.
I calculated the percentage of jobs in a metro that transit accessible—on that score Salt Lake City and San Jose came out best on that one. Los Angeles drops down to 20th on that measure—in a four way tie with Boston, Cleveland, and Orlando. The percentage measure favors smaller metro areas where you can get across the whole region in an hour. But bear in mind that the number of transit accessible jobs in Salt Lake City is only 1/3 the number in LA.
Much of the problem people have using transit in LA is the large, polycentric character of the city. If you’re in Pasadena and you want to go to Culver City, it’s going to take a long time, and it will still take a long time even after the Regional Connector is open. In Boston, or San Francisco, or Philadelphia, many more of the cultural attractions are concentrated in the downtown core. In Chicago, it’s said that 90% of the live theatres are along the Red Line subway, making them easy to reach from many parts of the city. LA just isn’t like that.
1914 Cottage Fixer in Silver Lake Back-Flipping For $319k
This is a such a sweet little house. Does ANYTHING sell for under $600,000 in Silver Lake these days? Um, no…..and I’m talking crappy condos on Hyperion even. I’m SURE this will sell for at least $600,000. Really, who do they think they are fooling by listing it at only $312,000!
Seven Ways California Could Change in a 72-Year Drought
Towns in the central valley have been paying for there water for a lot of years now its not like its a new thing. An people say we dont have a water issue where we live and we dont have any water restrictons because we have a lot.Wow i heard that a few years ago from people that live in the LA area because all there water was beening shiped viea from lakes up north. there saying was well just buy our water they have a lot hmmm seems like i heard that befor .A lake i used to live by sold water to LA water buyers made a few buckes doing it im sure.
The farmers need to change what they grow and how they water it open ya flipping eyes and learn from others or find a new job. The days of California growing most of the worlds rice is flying away like a dust storm. I guess all these new wine farmers you see in every lil area trying to make the millions are screwed along with everyone else or the goverment will pay them to not grow anything this year.
We needed water storage for years but frog kissers stoped that for a 3 leged frog fly or something else they found. Ok done just a small piece of my mind for now.
Los Angeles is Still Governed by Long-Gone Streetcar Routes
@matswaltin: A Sunset Blvd-to-Hollywood Blvd, running from Union Station in the East to La Brea Ave in the West could be a very popular and useful route. It’d connect Downtown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, East Hollywood and Hollywood. It’d run along or past Chinatown, Dodger Stadium, Sunset Junction, Barnsdall Park, Thai Town, the Walk of Fame, and Hollywood/Highland. That’d be a helluva line.
Here's How Everyone in Los Angeles Commutes to Work
@armchair boogie: The Census Bureau reports data for Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs), groups of census tracts that include at least 100,000 people. The City of LA is divided into about 26 PUMAs, some of which also include neighboring small cities or parts of unincorporated LA County. For example, parts of West LA are included with Culver City and Marina del Rey, parts of South LA are included with Baldwin Hills; the City of San Fernando is included with parts of the SF Valley, etc.
The highest rate of bicycling to work (4.2%) is in the area that includes USC, followed by other parts of South LA, Westwood/West LA, Westchester/Marina del Dely/Culver City, Silver Lake/Echo Park/Westlake. Hollywood, and North Hollywood. The lowest levels (0.3%) are outlying parts of LA such as Sunland-Tujunga, Granada Hills, and Porter Ranch.
Silver Lake Doesn't Want People Making Money in Its Meadow
This issue is being whipped up by the same nimby elements that have opposed everything about the meadow, and just can’t stand that it’s a happy place. Having lost their power on the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, when in the last election their slate of bitterness was wiped out, they’re now finding something, anything, to make their miserable wretched lives seem justified. So they’ve massively metastasized what has been a small and very discreet use of the meadow for health and happiness into a perceived horror.