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The big problem with painted lines being touted as good bike infrastructure is that while bicyclists may obey them, cars and trucks certainly DO NOT and I am not speaking about the motorists who do obey them because in my experience they have been the exception, not the rule. The general rule of thumb for most standard road diets is that if you would not let a young child or pregnant person ride a bicycle there, then it is not safe enough for the other 80% of bicyclists. On average car infrastructure in the US costs approx $9K / mile, good bike infrastructure is approx $60 / mile, and as far as maintenance goes it may require a fresh coat of paint every several years, compare that to the constant patching and sealing and damage potholes do to multi-thousand dollar vehicles every season. Enough said.

Ha ha jokes on you. I don't live in Los Angelos.

What's the best way to get ahold of you? I have a project that regards commutership in Los Angeles that I could use help on. Thank you!

I've been to Lincoln Beer probably 75+ times since they opened and never had to park more than a block away. I host the family friendly "Space Night" there every two months (next one is Aug. 14) and never heard a peep from attendees about trouble parking! I will try to be there on June 30. Thanks for doing it.

It's always crazy to me how many people admit/conflate our high real estate prices with "year around perfect weather" yet there's very little public spaces because they're either unpleasantly close to cars or just not allowed. Long Beach is having the same issue of losing outdoor dining to prioritize cars. Places serving alcohol should be some of the biggest advocates for transit and reduced car space.

Lincoln is awesome, great beers, used to drink em at Crazy Harrys Bar.

We are in the fortunate position of being able to walk from our house to Lincoln Brewery in under 15 minutes. The outdoor space with seating was great, and I agree that it would be awesome if the Brewery could use that space for seating again.

Excellent. Thank you!

Great info and great research. I have plans to meet a friend at Lincoln tonight and had no idea about any of this until a Lincoln email hit my inbox this morning. I had just figured we would be sitting outside this evening, like every time I’ve ever been to the place. Hopefully the original language not including “breweries” was a hasty oversight and can get updated quickly. If given the option, when out for a meal or beer, I never want to sit inside anymore, and there are probably plenty of people who feel that way. At a hyper-local level, if the city is concerned about parking of lack thereof, it sometimes is limited on that street, in part due to the 4x4 trucks that seemingly never get moved. Yet, it doesn’t seem like that was stopping anyone from visiting the brewery. Anyhow, the outdoor area was great, so I hope this gets resolved soon.

I've never had trouble parking on San Fernando for Tonir Cafe, around the corner, even during the lunch hour, but I'd never park for a brewery. What would I do with my car afterward?

I just noticed that whenever a word ends in a 'ng', you do not pronounce the g. Good luck with the appeal, even though it is no where near me at all.

Why is there even a parking lot at a brewery in the first place? If you go to a brewery, you're not allowed to get back into your car. Props to the activists supporting this small business and calling out this bs.

Crazy how it took a public health emergency to allow companies to do what they want with their land

Dude! I was just at Lincoln Brewery last week! I had no idea about any of this. I wonder if the reason the city council is enforcing the parking mandates is because the neighbors don't want Lincoln Brewery patrons parking on their side streets? I know whenever I go there I park on the street because there isn't any other way to get there from the Westside other than driving.

Come join us at the City Council meeting on 7/30 at 6PM to make a public comment! Also, did you notice Eddy in the beginning of the video? He’s running for Burbank City Council this year. Personally, I think anyone who likes my videos will love his platform, but feel free to check out his campaign site and see for yourself: eddypolon.com

Cars ruin everything!

has lincoln (or similar businesses) considered asking their customers to use alternative transport, poll those who arrived (honor system), then provide that data to the city? perhaps there's another way to measure this? data could be persuasive not just to the city but also to other business owners. obvi, now that parking lot is back, customers could be polled under this "parking condition" then if they city allows temporary or even permanent reversion, polling could be performed under that condition. repeated measures design would be more persuasive than others. just an idea

Parking mandates are killing our cities*

If only the evil John Phillips of 790 KABC were to watch this video!

1:33 that ain't a metrolink car nor train

Is this project dead?

I stongly suggest you put a YEAR on these videos. For history. And to help people in the future tell what has been going on. Thanks.

Hmm.. I didn't think about it that way... You can be right. And we do need to be heard by governors.

51% of kids within 2 miles of school are driven? That's sheer insanity...

When i went to school, the burbank bus was free. Otherwise, i walked if i couldnt get a ride they should just make the Burbank buses free again for high schoolers

if this is such a good economic proposition, why aren't the parents paying for the transit passes themselves? in my experience people who don't ride transit don't do it because of the quality of service, not the price, so it would be better to spend the money for better transit service

A ride of 6 minutes? I would have the kids walk or cycle, thats way too short for a car ride!

also, nothing more deadly for a cyclist than a parent trying to get to/from the school on-time. my guess, though, knowing few burbankers is that they wont trust their kids to be safe on the bus and will continue driving. let's see if burbs proves me wrong.

I like your dollars and cents approach to these issues. I would think that resonates even with people who are ideologically opposed to these ideas. Hope so!

Bill Bur in "Old Dads" energy here, and I'm ALL FOR IT!

Its just a shame california cant figure out how to do without being dysfunctional like typical California. I mean SanFran was able to finally clean their streets once the chinese president visited. Maybe the state government should be told Chinese officials are visiting the HSR construction site since that's the only people California serves.

300 collisions per year on just 6 miles. That's crazy.

I remember the Sepulveda expansion because it involved a heroic weekend closure while crews did a massive 72 hour pull to dismantle an old overpass... That added a lot of $$$.

Southwest, Spirit, and the mainline airlines should upgrade their tiny planes to medium or large planes to serve the LA<->SF route. That adds passenger capacity without needing to add runways. I say this as a CAHSR supporter.

Dont forget that CalHSR will run on cheap renewables, whereas at least 50% of cars in California will still be guzzling gas way into the future. CalHSR requires a higher upfront cost for its energy supply, but cars will be dependent on ever-rising oil prices - meaning the cost of fuel for highways and planes should also be considered. I wish we could also somehow calculate the savings for an average plane ticket on these routs vs average flight costs, and estimate how many fewer flights there would be to calculate a rough estimate of savings for consumers/taxpayers

Maybe a buslane with busses? I know it is not ideal, but it may be ok for the first time.

It would be less expensive if the money for CAHSR actually went to construction instead of the people “running” the project and if the project wasn’t poorly planned. However, I have some faith in Brightline West.

As a Finn, I cannot comment on anything else, than the false presentation of solor. It is clean, yes, however, it's not sustainable. It cannot power the modern industrial civilization due to too low ERoEI = Energy Returned on Energy Invested. Out of all clean energy technologies, hydropower is our best bet at sustaining modernity (plus geothermal), and it's increasingly becoming more scarce... No matter how many ABs, CDs, DFs you're quoting, the material and physical reality stays the same. And no, solar and wind isn't renewable, they're just rebuildable, until they aren't.

Add airport expansion to the cost estimate as high speed rail would be faster than air travel. Many flights out of LAX go to San Francisco and Las Vegas. This could free up runway capacity for longer flights and make expansion unnecessary. Also the cost of road maintenance for asphalt is higher than steel rail.

Decades ago, the off/on ramp from I-5 N/B to I-605 N/B was expanded to 2-lanes, taking my garage. It doesn’t surprise me it’s still a bottleneck! It really needs to be reimagined as continuation of I-5 rather than a change of highway to carry the demand.

High-Speed Rail.😮

Yes and yeah of course California High-Speed Rail in California.😮

I always want California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love California High-Speed Rail in California.😮

I took the train to Bakersfield about 6 weeks back and rented a car to drive to oc from there. What I wish would have happened instead of hsr full build out would be 110/125mph upgrades (added tracks and electrification contingent on funding) to what we've got now. The cost would be a hell of a lot lower, still be faster than driving, and add considerable capacity. My ride and drive was plenty pleasant and cut off about 4-5 hours of driving time from a rather boring part of the drive. I would have liked to take the train all the way through to orange county, which is the p1 buildout plan, but the connection on San Joaquins doesn't exist. If upgraded to greater speed and expanded over the tehachapi range, I believe that the majority of people would find it considerably more effective and efficient assuming low ticket costs, which will not be present on the proposed system.

And then also consider the improvement in car traffic if more people take the train instead

Only 7,500?! What are they only running 6 trains an hour? I hope they've allowed lots of room for upgrades - the Tokaido Shinkansen carries over 21,000 seated passengers an hour per direction.

The 7500 passengers per direction per hour definitely isn't the limit. That's around 7 to 8 trains per hour. A frequency of 15 trains per hour is possible on a high speed railway as Japan is able to maintain such a frequency so theoretically the capacity could be doubled. Alternatively you can slap on some double deck trains which increase the capacity by 50% Also, the CAHSR documents state that 1000 passengers will be accommodated along a 400m long train. This seems slightly off. If a carriage is 25m, that's a 16-carriage train. If 20m out of the 25m long carriages was actually seating and seat pitch was 1000mm with a 2+2 seating layout, that's 1280 passengers. With a 2+3 seating layout (because US trains are wider) that's 1600 passengers.

"Build it and they will come." Sadly, this historically has applied to highway widening. Adding lanes to an existing highway usually just creates a bigger parking lot when an accident blocks the road. Feeder roads would also have to add lanes to accommodate the added traffic. Most industrialized countries have a better network of passenger trains than the US, and as we struggle to make our cities less car-centric and more practical for walking/biking, an improved passenger rail system needs to be part of that effort.

The 7,500 passengers per hour per direction figure is not that high, that would only be a 400m HSR train carrying 1100 passengers every 10 minutes or so; or a 300m HSR train carrying 825 running every 7 minutes or so. The UK's new HSR plans to have a maximum capacity of a 400m train carrying 1100 passengers every 3.5 minutes so around 20,000 per hour per direction. Japan's busiest Shinkansen line already runs trains carrying 1323 passengers every 3.5 minutes so around 22,000 per hour per direction. These two examples have nearly 3x as much capacity as the California HSR stated capacity goal.