Sadly, that’s exactly where bike lanes were installed in 2017 after a years-long community process, only to be removed following complaints from drivers used to zooming along the street.
It’s impossible to know whether this tragedy could have been prevented if the bike lanes were still there. But their removal will almost certainly mean Los Angeles will be liable for her death.
That’s maybe what I hate most about this country.
Freedom is equated with convenience, and absolutely nothing is allowed to come between a person and their convenience, or it is felt as a breach of their liberty, even if it is a significant public good. (Hence why we saw so much fighting during COVID.)
It seems to me - as an overseas observer - that the balance of power between grown-ups and adult-aged-toddlers is unhealthily shifted towards the toddlers.
I mean it’s pretty bad in plenty of other places, but the usa seems to have it extreme and widespread. At least based on what things like this internet forum reports.
It’s convenient to live in a walkbake city. People oppose that all the time.
Most people who drive would not agree with you.
Only in the US. People who drive in other countries also walk sometimes. The carbrain is a particular form of US mentality.
That makes sense.
Please read all the words
This is true for walkable cities too. It’s why NYC has to introduce congestion tolls.
Also, don’t be a jerk to people.
I’m sorry!!
This doesn’t seem very convenient to me though.
Me neither, but most of my countrymen don’t think it through.