@@pranshukrishna5105 what? The Valley and the Westside are the only areas that have parts that aren't complete third world shitholes. Maybe Pasadena. Name one other part of Los Angeles that isn't an absolute dump.
9:31 Upzoning high density neighborhoods near transit sounds great, until you realize that that in Los Angeles many rapid transit stations are surrounded by Single-Family zoned areas-- which LA City Council just voted "no" to upzoning (only 5 of the 15 council members voted "yes"). Both a UCLA study and the city's own controller's office says that refusing to upzone single-family zoned areas around transit will mean LA will not reach its state housing quota. We have to hope that the state will see this for what it is, an unserious attempt at complying with the state. It's insulting that in 2024 we still use the very same redlining maps that were drawn explicitly to segregate racial minorities from white neighborhoods. I can't believe we're still doing housing segregation.
Wait, they overruled the upzoning of transit corridors for these neighborhoods because they are already low density? Seriously...? If the city fails to meet its California Housing Element timeline for allowing new housing development, the "builder's remedy" clause will ultimately take effect, and they would lose any privileges to force zoning restrictions like this though.
@@ImBalance Yeah. LA City Planning presented a motion to upzone around transit but exclude existing single-family areas. The LA City Controller, Kenneth Mejia, wrote a letter saying that excluding single-family areas will not achieve LA's housing and transit goals. City council member Nithya Raman proposed an amendment to include single-family areas around transit in the upzoning. On Tuesday, December 10th, Nithya and 4 other city council members voted "yes" on the amendment, but the other 10 voted "no". After this vote failed, the original motion passed unanimously. The original motion did include significant upzoning in Downtown LA. Which is really good. But 74% of the city's land is still zoned single-family which is outrageous.
You don’t understand just how deep NIMBYism is in CA.. they are all lipstick liberals who shoot down any attempts at urbanization. They just want their home values high, and some social brownie points for hating Trump. That’s it. Those city counselors vote that way bc their constituents want them to. The 5 that voted in favor, are in districts with far more renters and way less SFHs.
there’s no shortage of housing in the city of los angeles. we have wealthy property owners, foreign owners and places like caltrans and blackrock owning housing yet allowing it to sit empty. we need legislation to HEAVILY FINE these entities for allowing perfectly usable housing to go to waste year after year. we do not need more ridiculous developments like those ‘european style’ freeway adjacent monstrosities!
LA county officials are corrupt. Just because they share your party affiliation doesn’t mean they share your morals & values. Working with LA county has made me realize we need serious reform at that level for this city / county to improve.
“we” may be working like hell; but our much wealthier and much more powerful city dwellers are working even harder to stop and reverse our efforts. As they say, vote with your ballot, vote with you wallet. It will take a miracle to even begin fixing LA’s housing and transit problems.
@@pbcash7788 It’s the voters who are voting for those policies that deeply hurt the city. Politicians being corrupted or not doesn’t change the grand scheme of the system if the voters of the city keep voting for bad policies
@@fredfeng5716most voters havent even been voting though. most americans dont pay attention to local politics. and the one’s that are chosen are swayed by donations, or motivated by elevating their status
It's clear that if Los Angeles were to achieve its required housing goal it will have to incentivize homeowners to upgrade their single families to two family, three family, and four family houses. Plus they'll have to adopt Toronto's Avenues Plan which would incentivize construction of high density housing, office, and retail along its major arteries.
While it is very true that the LA Metro has built a new transit expansion every 5-10 years since 1980, let's not forget that the Bay Area has built a new transit expansion every 3-7 years since the 1970s. Some of these expansions were split between BART, Muni, VTA, Caltrain, SMART and co. but it still amounts to more region-wide expansion than the LA area in the same amount of time. Not saying that LA"s transit expansion hasn't been impressive or that it shouldn't be celebrated on a national scale! But the entire state of California is equally commendable for building a ton of transit since the political tides in the state shifted away from car dependency in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Let's not forget that since 1972 all major California cities have built extensive metro and/or light rail systems (Muni, VTA, SacRT, MTS, and LA Metro). And all have drastically expanded bus transit as well. SF, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, LA, Long Beach, Santa Monica all now have some kind of light rail or metro system and serviceable to excellent regional rail. It's not just LA that did this. The entire state did!
San Francisco is nothing to brag or even talk about. It's a declining banana republic and it's tiny in comparison to Los Angeles. Once the tech bros finish leaving, San Francisco is just Cleveland with nicer weather.
What are you talking about? Are you dreaming? As a non car driver living in LA for past 4 decades, LA transit expansion means car oriented transit systems, more big parking lots at each station n even BRT n park n ride. Funny, people complain about traffic congestion in WLA, the solution is to bui,d big free parking lots at each station . WLA real expensive even in LA standard. You need cars to get in n out of stations. My ex colleague lives in Coronoa. He wanted to walk to bus stop , to metrolink, blue line to Long Beach, bus to walk. Then he realized that it was faster to walk 5 miles than take bus. He drove. That's pretty much everywhere except Santa Monica. In Santa Monica, you didn't need cars before that you need car rail systems. I have not been tortured in other cities, but everyone wanted to learn from LA, that mean if you don't have cars, transit expansion does not help you.
@@commentorsilensor3734 the solution to traffic congestion is to not invite in 10-15 million, poor, uneducated, illegal immigrants and have the Democrats steal every penny that was meant for road expansion/maintenance.
He forgot how California doubled its population with illegal immigrants in the last 30 years and didn't add a single lane to a major highway anywhere. Government corruption and unsustainable, unchecked immigration is why the roads suck in California and more trains for crackheads to sleep in and use as a toilet all day won't fix anything.
Very good video - I live about a half a mile from a Phoenix light rail stop in Tempe (which also now has a streetcar) and wow, lots of apartment complexes going up around various rail stops (especially in Mesa). Interesting to see what is going on Los Angeles, which used to have a great trolley system (great visual of this at the Union Station in downtown Los Angeles
Great vid. You should cover how these density projects in wealthier (even middle class) neighborhoods cause huge problems. Parking, severe loss of urban mature forestry, and water and utility issues just to name a few of the challenges.
It's a bit weird to see a positive video on LA but nice to see! Hopefully the optimism shared in this video will come to pass. I really enjoy LA but it has a lot of problems.
4:30 Lol early 20th Century America was so short-sighted and idealistic about endless expansionism; there's even a bit of a charm to it (overlooking the blatant racism and enforced inefficiency in land use that has plagued America for a century now 😬).
LA is a daily reminder that the good 'ol days weren't so good. Although some of its nicest neighborhoods date back to the early 1900s, much more of the city & region that's noticeably rundown & unattractive in 2024 (& was never nice to begin with), & has been in a long-time economic slump, was built over 60-70 years ago. Both NIMBYism & YIMBYism should always keep that in mind. Same thing can also be said about other American cities like NYC (eg, tenements, the Bronx, etc) too, but it's more of a problem in LA.
after a decade of planning and thanks to my grannies and aunties prayers to the Virgen de Guadalupe, the LAX peoples mover will finally get going by 2025 maybe 2026 just in time for the FIFA World Cup...Gracias!
As much as Los Angeles disgusts me I give them credit for being far more progressive than the San Francisco Bay Area where I live in pushing public transportation and housing projects into reality. Los Angeles will probably have a world-class train/tram/bus system within thirty years while the Bay Area will only show small improvements from its current mediocre state. As for housing, I have faith that Los Angeles can build enough in the end. Here in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, I have a lot of doubts.
This town (like many) has layers of revolving transportation, commerical and housing priorities that will never be put to rest, most of this type of legislation for growth are simply jobs bills... no different than the homeless advocacy industrial complex that gets rich without any requirement to actually solve its stated purpose, or mandated Healthcare which requires you purchase insurance yet puts almost no demands of the providers to actually improve your health care, or have a publicly/corporate funded education system reguarded as one of the worst in the country. Further, water scarcity has not been solved... most water storage and capture systems are dilapidated and fall short of what was projected to be needed almost 100 years ago. The divisive political environment will never acheive a protracted timeline of consistent societal values that transcends generations where LA may just lead the pack in dressing up kneejerk ptojects as Civic priorities. There Is work and then there is progress--most of this stuff is just work to be replaced by tomorrow's definition of progress.
Density doesn't equal affordability nor solve housing shortage. That is why NYC or Paris is very un- affordable even though it is very dense. The phenomenon is called induced demand where an increase in the supply of a good or service leads to an increase in its consumption. Zoning changes will not impact prices in any significant way either. In order to have any impact on demand it would require whole swaths of a city to be razed to the ground in a very short period of time. Even then the price decrease would be just temporary. Cost to build a house is more or less the same across the country. The variables are cost of the land and cost of regulations.
Induced demand applies for things like road construction, not housing. The main driver for housing demand is being close to jobs. Secondary things are being close to family and friends, good weather, low crime, being close to shopping and activities, the quality of the schools, etc. There does come a point where there is no longer any room for more single family housing. Los Angeles is past that point. But it is always possible to build up and build taller and taller apartment or condo buildings.
I believe aquifers were found outside the settlements and the water was brought in through canals and later pipes. The river mentioned in the video, together with a lot of the lakes in the middle of California, were later used for irrigation (and still therefore drained).
My fear is that corruption & lack of upkeep / security destroys these projects. I work directly with LA county for my job & wow… they are completely incompetent, rude, aggressive, and even corrupt. I could see the transit becoming run down ASAP and filled with criminals. Hope I’m wrong, but that’s what happens to most CA public projects.
All you need to do is watch all the Old Westerns movies, Charlie Chaplin movies where he deals with politics, and other movies like LA Confidential, Chinatown, Mulholland Falls, Don't Worry Darling and even Cat's Meow to know how corrupt and gangster LA has always been, being used as kind of a guinea pig of a place needed to be experimented on for constant change, short-lived ideas, Post-Modern Art and Lifestyles concepts, a place to sucker people into believing that the "American Dream of owning a house with a picket fence, a car and a dog" is attainable by "everyone" when, if you think about it carefully - how much space and distance do you need to fit in how many millions of people with the same house, car and dog all across the landscape before you've spread it out so far, it takes 2 hours to drive across town of all those houses into the suburbs and you've only gone 25 miles because all those cars all clog up the same roads, because, they all also have to go to the same places, all while the poor people gaze up the "palaces on the hill" of the rich and the celebrities who actually do live in those mega mansions in the hills LMAO
Great video! We need more of your content on the regular. I really do hope that Los Angeles Makes Itself Great Again, but not in the MAGA way some would hope. I am talking more about returning to the great railroading city it was, is and could still be... Every corridor where streetcars and regional rail ran? Should be restored. Then concentrate on building an express automated regional rail like the Montreal RER using Metrolink but driverless with services as frequent as every minute or two during rush hour. These station sites could and should become mini downtowns to each district and neighbourhood and also encourage high density mixed use development at each station site much like Vancouver. It's taking the best of each cities best practices and using them to make the city as great and as equitable as it should be for all. Especially since let's face it, it a metropolis built on stolen land that hasn't come to terms with that never mind its other nefarious choices... I.e. The Water Wars and the "Chinatown-era" drama of race and income based inequality that has never been rectified such as redlining areas and driving freeways through them which disturbingly still happened in my lifetime and I'm only 40..
A lot of redlined or freeway-stricken neighborhoods in older metro LA were never well developed to begin with. Areas like South Gate or Pacoima - or much of central LA - were thrown together in the early 1900s in the format of a shanty town.
They need to make the public transport lines have ring routes and go every direction but also connect the lines. If they all meet in the downtown it will fail. Most people don’t commute to downtown so downtown oriented transit will fail
Downtown is pretty much finished with transit construction. Almost all new construction from now on is in areas far from downtown. In fact, two of the four Metro light rail lines currently operating do not go downtown (C and K do not go downtown; A and D do). Also, the G Line busway is entirely in the San Fernando Valley.
probably the most corrupted city in the country (if not the world). the city is beyond hope. there will have to be MAJOR unrest before things start to really change. i’m a native angeleno 😢
Its nice to be positive but this piece is just cherry picking the good stuff and tying it all together to paint a pretty picture which is far from the complete reality of those of us who actually lived through all of it - its fine to be a fan of the trains AND YES its better than nothing BUT it hasnt made a great improvement on many of our lives
There’s no housing shortage in LA. Plenty of space that needs to be “cleaned up, schools revamped, safety, zero-gangs, zero-graffiti, and on, and on…..!
Youthful enthusiasm…not yet tempered by experience…I love this type of discussion. The Law Of Unintended Consequences will rule all efforts… Remember one basic fact about human beings… They are incapable of walking in a straight line, lurching from one extreme to the other. I’ll skip straight to the chase for you… The state is controlled by unions and building interests… And the politicians they control. All you need to know about mass transit is two things… California’s so-called high-speed rail multi billion dollar boondoggle, and the Democratic super majority. No one really wants lower housing prices in California because that’s were so many Californians hold the majority of their wealth.
Wait until you are stuck in your cul-de-sac with only one exit out of the neighborhood blocked or gas pumps are down and now you can't get necessities.
"oh no, there is a supermarket a mile away from me, i guess i'm stuck here now" Please, get off the conspiracy juice and read about what a '15 minute city' is supposed to mean. Hell, in many cities in europe or asia, you can already reach most necessities within 15 minutes without a car. Do these cities trap you inside?
@roger5059 Yes, they do trap you inside because it's impractical without a car to go very far from them without having to use your biometrics. One of the primary purposes of a 15-minute City is to trap you in a small area. Perhaps you are the one who doesn't know what these 15 minute cities mean.
Those things would only happen through government finagling, which will start when they can get more people like you on their side. You're a part of something very evil and you're drunk with it, so you don't recognize it. God, however, will know.
streetcars are more or less essentiall for cities. non gasolene alternatiFF scenic etc. but ´peopell äre creedy n stvpät. stvpät reläygiönne stvpät peopellmell´ v v
Thanks for covering LA in a positive fashion because its a great city, and good job covering housing issues accurately
LA is great except for Valley region
@@pranshukrishna5105 what? The Valley and the Westside are the only areas that have parts that aren't complete third world shitholes. Maybe Pasadena. Name one other part of Los Angeles that isn't an absolute dump.
9:31 Upzoning high density neighborhoods near transit sounds great, until you realize that that in Los Angeles many rapid transit stations are surrounded by Single-Family zoned areas-- which LA City Council just voted "no" to upzoning (only 5 of the 15 council members voted "yes"). Both a UCLA study and the city's own controller's office says that refusing to upzone single-family zoned areas around transit will mean LA will not reach its state housing quota. We have to hope that the state will see this for what it is, an unserious attempt at complying with the state. It's insulting that in 2024 we still use the very same redlining maps that were drawn explicitly to segregate racial minorities from white neighborhoods. I can't believe we're still doing housing segregation.
Wait, they overruled the upzoning of transit corridors for these neighborhoods because they are already low density? Seriously...?
If the city fails to meet its California Housing Element timeline for allowing new housing development, the "builder's remedy" clause will ultimately take effect, and they would lose any privileges to force zoning restrictions like this though.
@@ImBalance Yeah. LA City Planning presented a motion to upzone around transit but exclude existing single-family areas. The LA City Controller, Kenneth Mejia, wrote a letter saying that excluding single-family areas will not achieve LA's housing and transit goals. City council member Nithya Raman proposed an amendment to include single-family areas around transit in the upzoning. On Tuesday, December 10th, Nithya and 4 other city council members voted "yes" on the amendment, but the other 10 voted "no". After this vote failed, the original motion passed unanimously.
The original motion did include significant upzoning in Downtown LA. Which is really good. But 74% of the city's land is still zoned single-family which is outrageous.
You don’t understand just how deep NIMBYism is in CA.. they are all lipstick liberals who shoot down any attempts at urbanization. They just want their home values high, and some social brownie points for hating Trump. That’s it. Those city counselors vote that way bc their constituents want them to. The 5 that voted in favor, are in districts with far more renters and way less SFHs.
@@mariusfacktor3597There is an increasing amount of TOD being developed along various LA Metro lines.
there’s no shortage of housing in the city of los angeles. we have wealthy property owners, foreign owners and places like caltrans and blackrock owning housing yet allowing it to sit empty. we need legislation to HEAVILY FINE these entities for allowing perfectly usable housing to go to waste year after year. we do not need more ridiculous developments like those ‘european style’ freeway adjacent monstrosities!
This is very educational, thank you! I also appreciated your storytelling style and video editing :)
nice to see such a positive video about LA! there may be a lot wrong in our city, but we’re working like hell to make things right.
LA county officials are corrupt. Just because they share your party affiliation doesn’t mean they share your morals & values. Working with LA county has made me realize we need serious reform at that level for this city / county to improve.
“we” may be working like hell; but our much wealthier and much more powerful city dwellers are working even harder to stop and reverse our efforts. As they say, vote with your ballot, vote with you wallet. It will take a miracle to even begin fixing LA’s housing and transit problems.
@@pbcash7788 Political parties need to be abolished so politicians have to defend themselves instead of their party doing it for them.
@@pbcash7788 It’s the voters who are voting for those policies that deeply hurt the city. Politicians being corrupted or not doesn’t change the grand scheme of the system if the voters of the city keep voting for bad policies
@@fredfeng5716most voters havent even been voting though. most americans dont pay attention to local politics. and the one’s that are chosen are swayed by donations, or motivated by elevating their status
this guys enthusiasm is contagious
Thank you Alex, very cool
(But also I have a lot of hope for LA)
It's clear that if Los Angeles were to achieve its required housing goal it will have to incentivize homeowners to upgrade their single families to two family, three family, and four family houses. Plus they'll have to adopt Toronto's Avenues Plan which would incentivize construction of high density housing, office, and retail along its major arteries.
While it is very true that the LA Metro has built a new transit expansion every 5-10 years since 1980, let's not forget that the Bay Area has built a new transit expansion every 3-7 years since the 1970s. Some of these expansions were split between BART, Muni, VTA, Caltrain, SMART and co. but it still amounts to more region-wide expansion than the LA area in the same amount of time.
Not saying that LA"s transit expansion hasn't been impressive or that it shouldn't be celebrated on a national scale! But the entire state of California is equally commendable for building a ton of transit since the political tides in the state shifted away from car dependency in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Let's not forget that since 1972 all major California cities have built extensive metro and/or light rail systems (Muni, VTA, SacRT, MTS, and LA Metro). And all have drastically expanded bus transit as well. SF, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, LA, Long Beach, Santa Monica all now have some kind of light rail or metro system and serviceable to excellent regional rail.
It's not just LA that did this. The entire state did!
San Francisco is nothing to brag or even talk about. It's a declining banana republic and it's tiny in comparison to Los Angeles. Once the tech bros finish leaving, San Francisco is just Cleveland with nicer weather.
What are you talking about? Are you dreaming?
As a non car driver living in LA for past 4 decades, LA transit expansion means car oriented transit systems, more big parking lots at each station n even BRT n park n ride. Funny, people complain about traffic congestion in WLA, the solution is to bui,d big free parking lots at each station . WLA real expensive even in LA standard.
You need cars to get in n out of stations. My ex colleague lives in Coronoa. He wanted to walk to bus stop , to metrolink, blue line to Long Beach, bus to walk. Then he realized that it was faster to walk 5 miles than take bus. He drove. That's pretty much everywhere except Santa Monica. In Santa Monica, you didn't need cars before that you need car rail systems.
I have not been tortured in other cities, but everyone wanted to learn from LA, that mean if you don't have cars, transit expansion does not help you.
@@commentorsilensor3734 the solution to traffic congestion is to not invite in 10-15 million, poor, uneducated, illegal immigrants and have the Democrats steal every penny that was meant for road expansion/maintenance.
Hi from Australia! I have been watching LA build out rapid transit for a couple decades and been very impressed. Keep up the good work!
It is not as impressive as melbourne
Fantastic video! The buerocratic black void is where the sausage is made, appreciate you getting into the details about the function of the MPO etc
Great video and a ton of important history!
He forgot how California doubled its population with illegal immigrants in the last 30 years and didn't add a single lane to a major highway anywhere. Government corruption and unsustainable, unchecked immigration is why the roads suck in California and more trains for crackheads to sleep in and use as a toilet all day won't fix anything.
5:26 LOL I love that you included someone running a stop signal
Very good video - I live about a half a mile from a Phoenix light rail stop in Tempe (which also now has a streetcar) and wow, lots of apartment complexes going up around various rail stops (especially in Mesa). Interesting to see what is going on Los Angeles, which used to have a great trolley system (great visual of this at the Union Station in downtown Los Angeles
I appreciate bringing in the zoning issues that made transit & development patterns what became. Most videos gloss over that issue.
Great vid. You should cover how these density projects in wealthier (even middle class) neighborhoods cause huge problems. Parking, severe loss of urban mature forestry, and water and utility issues just to name a few of the challenges.
This is a friendly and well put together video. Thank you.
It's a bit weird to see a positive video on LA but nice to see! Hopefully the optimism shared in this video will come to pass. I really enjoy LA but it has a lot of problems.
This is a great overview!
Really good video! Just one small correction. Measure M, the ballot measure that passed in 2016, made Measure R have no expiration date either.
We need more videos like this. Every one in their city, state, and county needs to know their history!
What a well presented video!
Man, great video. As a local this was insightful. New subscriber
I'm genuinely surprised at the mention of the extermination of the Kish
This is a really great report! Reminds me of what Johnny Harris has been doing, but with its own unique vibe
Super interesting video.
Incredible 😮❤
incredibly good video thanks
Hella positive news mate! Hope they can continue to build affordable housing
4:30 Lol early 20th Century America was so short-sighted and idealistic about endless expansionism; there's even a bit of a charm to it (overlooking the blatant racism and enforced inefficiency in land use that has plagued America for a century now 😬).
Yeah everyone hates everyone there
Great video
Great video!
LA is a daily reminder that the good 'ol days weren't so good. Although some of its nicest neighborhoods date back to the early 1900s, much more of the city & region that's noticeably rundown & unattractive in 2024 (& was never nice to begin with), & has been in a long-time economic slump, was built over 60-70 years ago. Both NIMBYism & YIMBYism should always keep that in mind. Same thing can also be said about other American cities like NYC (eg, tenements, the Bronx, etc) too, but it's more of a problem in LA.
TOPIC SUGGESTION... "STROADS" STREET ROADS... OR IN L.A. STREEWAYS
Where’s the beach at??
West, always West.
after a decade of planning and thanks to my grannies and aunties prayers to the Virgen de Guadalupe, the LAX peoples mover will finally get going by 2025 maybe 2026 just in time for the FIFA World Cup...Gracias!
Love my city.
As much as Los Angeles disgusts me I give them credit for being far more progressive than the San Francisco Bay Area where I live in pushing public transportation and housing projects into reality. Los Angeles will probably have a world-class train/tram/bus system within thirty years while the Bay Area will only show small improvements from its current mediocre state. As for housing, I have faith that Los Angeles can build enough in the end. Here in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, I have a lot of doubts.
Do you know Johnny ?
This town (like many) has layers of revolving transportation, commerical and housing priorities that will never be put to rest, most of this type of legislation for growth are simply jobs bills... no different than the homeless advocacy industrial complex that gets rich without any requirement to actually solve its stated purpose, or mandated Healthcare which requires you purchase insurance yet puts almost no demands of the providers to actually improve your health care, or have a publicly/corporate funded education system reguarded as one of the worst in the country. Further, water scarcity has not been solved... most water storage and capture systems are dilapidated and fall short of what was projected to be needed almost 100 years ago. The divisive political environment will never acheive a protracted timeline of consistent societal values that transcends generations where LA may just lead the pack in dressing up kneejerk ptojects as Civic priorities. There Is work and then there is progress--most of this stuff is just work to be replaced by tomorrow's definition of progress.
Density doesn't equal affordability nor solve housing shortage. That is why NYC or Paris is very un- affordable even though it is very dense. The phenomenon is called induced demand where an increase in the supply of a good or service leads to an increase in its consumption. Zoning changes will not impact prices in any significant way either. In order to have any impact on demand it would require whole swaths of a city to be razed to the ground in a very short period of time. Even then the price decrease would be just temporary.
Cost to build a house is more or less the same across the country. The variables are cost of the land and cost of regulations.
Induced demand applies for things like road construction, not housing. The main driver for housing demand is being close to jobs. Secondary things are being close to family and friends, good weather, low crime, being close to shopping and activities, the quality of the schools, etc.
There does come a point where there is no longer any room for more single family housing. Los Angeles is past that point. But it is always possible to build up and build taller and taller apartment or condo buildings.
This is an awesome video! But LA built its way out of water scarcity? I missed that video
I believe aquifers were found outside the settlements and the water was brought in through canals and later pipes. The river mentioned in the video, together with a lot of the lakes in the middle of California, were later used for irrigation (and still therefore drained).
My fear is that corruption & lack of upkeep / security destroys these projects. I work directly with LA county for my job & wow… they are completely incompetent, rude, aggressive, and even corrupt.
I could see the transit becoming run down ASAP and filled with criminals. Hope I’m wrong, but that’s what happens to most CA public projects.
All you need to do is watch all the Old Westerns movies, Charlie Chaplin movies where he deals with politics, and other movies like LA Confidential, Chinatown, Mulholland Falls, Don't Worry Darling and even Cat's Meow to know how corrupt and gangster LA has always been, being used as kind of a guinea pig of a place needed to be experimented on for constant change, short-lived ideas, Post-Modern Art and Lifestyles concepts, a place to sucker people into believing that the "American Dream of owning a house with a picket fence, a car and a dog" is attainable by "everyone" when, if you think about it carefully - how much space and distance do you need to fit in how many millions of people with the same house, car and dog all across the landscape before you've spread it out so far, it takes 2 hours to drive across town of all those houses into the suburbs and you've only gone 25 miles because all those cars all clog up the same roads, because, they all also have to go to the same places, all while the poor people gaze up the "palaces on the hill" of the rich and the celebrities who actually do live in those mega mansions in the hills LMAO
Fun Fact: PETER HARDENMAN BURNETT WAS A HARDCORE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT
Great video! We need more of your content on the regular. I really do hope that Los Angeles Makes Itself Great Again, but not in the MAGA way some would hope. I am talking more about returning to the great railroading city it was, is and could still be... Every corridor where streetcars and regional rail ran? Should be restored. Then concentrate on building an express automated regional rail like the Montreal RER using Metrolink but driverless with services as frequent as every minute or two during rush hour. These station sites could and should become mini downtowns to each district and neighbourhood and also encourage high density mixed use development at each station site much like Vancouver. It's taking the best of each cities best practices and using them to make the city as great and as equitable as it should be for all. Especially since let's face it, it a metropolis built on stolen land that hasn't come to terms with that never mind its other nefarious choices... I.e. The Water Wars and the "Chinatown-era" drama of race and income based inequality that has never been rectified such as redlining areas and driving freeways through them which disturbingly still happened in my lifetime and I'm only 40..
A lot of redlined or freeway-stricken neighborhoods in older metro LA were never well developed to begin with. Areas like South Gate or Pacoima - or much of central LA - were thrown together in the early 1900s in the format of a shanty town.
They need to make the public transport lines have ring routes and go every direction but also connect the lines. If they all meet in the downtown it will fail. Most people don’t commute to downtown so downtown oriented transit will fail
Downtown is pretty much finished with transit construction. Almost all new construction from now on is in areas far from downtown. In fact, two of the four Metro light rail lines currently operating do not go downtown (C and K do not go downtown; A and D do). Also, the G Line busway is entirely in the San Fernando Valley.
Bro Los Angeles will build one soon
A Time Square called "Angel's Time Square" 😅😂
probably the most corrupted city in the country (if not the world). the city is beyond hope. there will have to be MAJOR unrest before things start to really change. i’m a native angeleno 😢
Queue Randy Newman!
I cannot envision a worse stain on mankind's reputation than LA. Well, actually, yes I can and that's too bad.
doubtful about a good transit system
The 21st centuries catches up to US America 😂
Its nice to be positive but this piece is just cherry picking the good stuff and tying it all together to paint a pretty picture which is far from the complete reality of those of us who actually lived through all of it - its fine to be a fan of the trains AND YES its better than nothing BUT it hasnt made a great improvement on many of our lives
zoning laws benifit the Auto Industry walking and cycling can and will land in jail in America
There’s no housing shortage in LA. Plenty of space that needs to be “cleaned up, schools revamped, safety, zero-gangs, zero-graffiti, and on, and on…..!
So sad.
LA is where urban planning goes to die
Yeah people are leaving, thanx to politics
Youthful enthusiasm…not yet tempered by experience…I love this type of discussion. The Law Of Unintended Consequences will rule all efforts… Remember one basic fact about human beings… They are incapable of walking in a straight line, lurching from one extreme to the other. I’ll skip straight to the chase for you… The state is controlled by unions and building interests… And the politicians they control. All you need to know about mass transit is two things… California’s so-called high-speed rail multi billion dollar boondoggle, and the Democratic super majority. No one really wants lower housing prices in California because that’s were so many Californians hold the majority of their wealth.
the high speed rail was almost killed by NIMBYs, it is back on track, go be a loser somewhere else
Wait until you're stuck in a 15 minute City without your own transportation to get out of there. This is a shamelessly politically correct video..
Wait until you are stuck in your cul-de-sac with only one exit out of the neighborhood blocked or gas pumps are down and now you can't get necessities.
"oh no, there is a supermarket a mile away from me, i guess i'm stuck here now"
Please, get off the conspiracy juice and read about what a '15 minute city' is supposed to mean.
Hell, in many cities in europe or asia, you can already reach most necessities within 15 minutes without a car. Do these cities trap you inside?
@roger5059 Yes, they do trap you inside because it's impractical without a car to go very far from them without having to use your biometrics. One of the primary purposes of a 15-minute City is to trap you in a small area. Perhaps you are the one who doesn't know what these 15 minute cities mean.
@roger5059 I may be on the conspiracy juice, but you're on the politically correct juice. You want to obey so you can continue to get goodies.
Those things would only happen through government finagling, which will start when they can get more people like you on their side. You're a part of something very evil and you're drunk with it, so you don't recognize it. God, however, will know.
streetcars are more or less essentiall for cities. non gasolene alternatiFF scenic etc. but ´peopell äre creedy n stvpät. stvpät reläygiönne stvpät peopellmell´ v v
WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PLEASE STAND BY
Great video!