Yes on HLA
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2024
- Vote YES on Measure HLA in the Los Angeles primary election on March 5.
For more information, visit yesonhla.com/
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Disclosure: I am involved with Streets For All (the organization pushing this ballot measure) but they did not pay me to make this.
HLA Passed!!!🎉🎉🎉
Love actual activism, instead of just complaining
That’s one of the great things about being in LA in my opinion. Most cities in America are just as car centric as LA, but we live in one of the few cities where people are pushing hard to change things.
I honestly have hope that getting around the city in 20-30 years will be completely different.
Activism for developer handouts is called shilling. Follow the money.
@@SoundOfYourDestiny oops I commented on UA-cam
@@pinhead35 same
Congratulations Los Angeles. I can't believe you guys actually passed this. This makes me even more optimistic about the future.
Hey, great video, I hope it passes!
This sounds a lot like what's happening in Paris, except the mayor there just sort of built the lanes. They were also worried about first responder response times, but statistically saw increased speed for first responders.
I don’t live in LA, but I work in LA. We desperately need this measure to pass. Vote YES on HLA
I don't live in LA proper but I hope y'all are able to get this passed and pave the way for the rest of the county. The beach cities like SM and LB are making good progress since they're outliers but if the main city can't get this passed there's little hope for the rest of the area.
We need something like this in Seattle.
Local NIMBYs come out, oppose, and slow down BRT and bike lane projects that city voters have approved sometimes even more than a decade ago
Sharing this with my LA network! We all have to help get the word out. The misinformation campaign around this is genuinely concerning.
This video is "misinformation?" There's plenty of damning information in it, and I'm not even all the way through.
@@SoundOfYourDestiny Not at all! I fully support the message in this video. I’m referring to the misinformation campaign that is trying to get people to vote no on HLA.
How would a hook and latter fire truck on a code 3 emergency get around on a street one lane each direction an raised island then a bike lane? BL
Failed in Culver’s city
I wish we can switch to more robust bike lane protection like steel bollards, concrete planters, or even parking stops repurposed for bike lanes. But bollards is a start.
I had been holding out voting on HLA until I could research more about the background, but I just got what I needed from this video - thank you!
A bunch of discredited propaganda did it for ya?
Voted yes and sent in my ballot.
I really don't understand fire and emt opposition to these efforts. It's like they prefer to just be stuck in traffic, rather than have fewer cars in the road. Besides, it's not like the response time for firefighters is higher in the Netherlands with great bike infrastructure.
Try driving through culver city on washington blvd and youll see why this plan is ridiculous!!!
Of course you know better right? Then people who do there jobs?
@@OO-cb3bf Yes.
EMTs and such can use the bike lanes. Cyclists can get out the way much faster than people in metal boxes. The opposition is very silly and illogical.
Done. I’m voting yes and I’m gonna talk to my neighbors about this too.
I voted YES on HLA Los Angeles. I voted for Karen Bass, she will be pro-active and get things done. I voted for her last election and she is doing as much of what she promised as they will let do. It’s the SPA districts that is holding her up.
"I voted YES on HLA Los Angeles."
"I voted for Karen Bass"
Lol
If you remove a lane of road and 50% of people now bike, you have 50% less cars and 50% less cars that need a place to park
But bikes take up 1/10th as much parking and are much less expensive to maintain bike infrastructure because a fat guy on a bike is nothing compared to even the lightest vehicles
50% now bike. LMAO good luck getting 2 million people to switch from car to bike in a suburban SFH only sprawl hellhole of LA
@@tann_man higher density close to the city center would fix that
They are already allowing duplexes on single plots of land
Remember, these things aren't something that happened over the course of a few years but over a few decades or a few generations
We didn't get here in one decade and it's going to take more than that to reverse the damage
@@matthewboyd8689We agree. My point was that "removing a lane of road" and suddenly half the population is biking now would be absurd and a severe reduction in quality of life for residents if you didn't first address that everything is illegal and living spaces are miles away from anything other than other living spaces.
@@tann_man well, I guess I jumped the gun a bit by saying 50%
It's more like 1 street at a time and after hundreds of streets it would be there but good arteries for bike culture that get you across the city without mingling with traffic for miles at a time, one north to south and one east to west would be a small portion but could have a large impact on cycling percentages.
Only way to get there is vote
If no one to vote for that supports your communities values, run for office (most get elected because there was no opposition)
Imagine being against this
there fire fires are not very bright. They could just use the bus lanes as emergency lanes win win
Philly would do well to start to utilize this practice.
A similarity to that open road is MLK boulevard in Philadelphia being closed off on weekends once the weather turns. It is always packed with runners/bikers who enjoy the well paved road and lack of speeding vehicles.
It passed!
Rooting for you! We need the same in NY. Best of luck.
ugh melrose would be sooo nice if it was pedestrian friendly
Tell me where is Koretz, for I much desire to speak with him
i voted yes but i will say, encouraging developers to build housing without parking is not an incentive to vote for this bill. parking is so crucial in this city, even if some would like to dream about a new-urbanist fantasy we're never going to be there, and parking in the city is hard enough as it is.
1:28 Where are you viewing the pending road works projects? I'd like to see what is planned for my area
wish we had something like this in OC, I would definitely vote for it. Will share with friends and family in LA tho.
The city I live in has bike trails as well as horse trails alongside roads, and connecting to city parks and wilderness trails. It's a great way to not only have pedestrian paths but also give animals a place to live too. Just need more busses though imo.
Hell yeah brother
Excited for HLA, it'll make biking and driving safer and more efficient!
Amazing how much momentum we have gained in just a few years. I hope you guys in LA can pass this measure. Even if it fails, understand that this was barely a conversation just 10 years ago. The progress is outstanding, it can't be stopped forever
this is a bigger step than people realize. now that there is a legal backing behind this, the incentives to increase building rather than decrease will kick in. Additionally, the more they build and people realize they like them, the more these smaller politicians will advocate to build more and faster! its a snowball going downhill.
I can't wait for it to pass, let's hope the opposition in bad faith doesn't stop us
I think the biggest challenge is reminding people to turn in their ballots.
And vote to delete lanes and cause more backups and traffic. Inefficient. California is in debt and this is how we spend money on bs.
@@MrGunnerru "vote to delete lanes and cause more backups and traffic."
LA has the largest highway system in the world. Do you seriously think adding more lanes will fix traffic? Use critical thinking dude.
@@MrGunnerru, you're one of those "Just ONE MORE LANE" Stans. STOP.
@@MrGunnerru removing lanes has actually been studied and shown to reduce traffic and travel times lol. hope you like Measure HLA being passed 👍
Since bicyclists don't post gas taxes, what is their skin in the game? I rose my bike over 200 miles a week back in the 1990s and A only real bike lane I used was on Venice Boulevard, some streets in Santa Monica, and down to Redondo. It wasn't for commuting. The idea that bikes will be commuting vehicles is insane. In San Jose we lost one lane each direction for bike lanes on a major street. What did we get? Major traffic and commuters. Bicycle lanes hurt families and parents who can't use them when transporting children yet have to pay taxes for them while indulged bicycle activists get to use them on rare occasion. Bicyclists who commute should have their own lanes built off-street and let cars be cars. I've investigated far too many accidents involving bicyclists, in bike lanes, who thought they were protected and invulnerable. They weren't. It's ridiculous to expect a modern, mobile society, to use their streets for bikes. Let's start charging them for using the streets gas tax dollars pay for.
ua-cam.com/video/0RXn_2pAFRM/v-deo.htmlsi=MmLF7TyjAua5Unnn&t=281 Just casually running a red light. Classic LA.
YES ON HLA
This isn't even that bad by local standards 😬
I hope you’re right about this. For my part, I voted no on HLA and was sad to see it passed. I appreciate your points about pedestrian safety and as someone who walks a dog often in LA, I’d love to see our roads get safer for walking, but I also commute to work and am keenly aware of the problem we already have with traffic and congestion. This plan of putting in dedicated bike/bus lanes has already been implemented in downtown Culver City, and it has made traffic twice as bad in what was already a heavily congested area. I’d love for LA to be a less car dependent city, but until we get a reliable subway system that covers most of the city I think that’s just wishful thinking, and the subway seems to be years away, if we ever see it at all. So to me this seems like a recipe for more traffic in our already horribly congested city
LA should trial days where you can only use public transport, carpool or and open roads to bicycles only. Emergency services will be quicker because of less traffic
Oh America, land of the free, but you're not allowed to safely walk or cycle and you're at the helm of the oil corporations. But you can drive anywhere tho...
It's so wild how people will complain about costs when it comes to something that improves the lives of people and the health of the environment such as bike lanes, but they don't care about spending way more on adding lanes to roads which only has negative outcomes.
We need this here in Long Beach.
YES ON HLA
HLA passed!
Great content but please consider adding some background music 🎶
Hear hear!!!
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Okay, but as an Australian, you really need to make helmets a requirement! It gives me anxiety seeing everyone near cars without them
The biggest hindrance to wide spread use of bicycles and public transportation as a whole is the general lack of free bathrooms. Most people need to locate a toilet at least every 2 hours. In a car culture public toilets are not a necessity.
What…? That's a new argument I've never heard before. Look, no one is biking or taking public transit for more than two hours at a time, let alone one hour. Anyway, most people only need to use a washroom every 4 hours or more, unless they're consuming extreme quantities of liquids. But that's beside the point, because nobody drags a toilet around with them in their car anyway.
This won't protect pedestrians much unless police start doing something about people driving as fast as they want, run stop signs and red lights like it was a sport. It's ridiculous!
I think that the fire fighters are just being a little difficult, they should be less hatefu- they should be more happy.
'we dont want safer roads because itll take more time to get to people dying from roads that could be safer' - firefighters
THEY SAID HWAET??!?!!
even arguing cost: a statistical human life is 1-10 million. at 300 people per year, this is 300million - 3 BILLION. over 10 years this is 3-30 BILLION dollars.
LAPD has a budget of about 10 billion dollars every. single. year.
Just think about that
@@handsfortoothpicks And LAUSD budget is twice that. And the city boasts an incredibly high illiteracy rate. LOL!
@@felix-ve8jk And teachers get like none of it.
Cant wait for rhe Cuidad Mexico-ization of LA
Cìudad or Cuidad? LOL
Montreal is the best city in North america for biking infrastructure and 4 th best biking city in the world with more than 1 ,000 km ( 600 miles ) of bike lanes on the island with express bike network . Montreal is built on an island 10 times the size of Manhattan and we also bike during the winter with more than 60 cm ( 2 feet of snow ) ... Montreal also closes 10 major streets in the summer for pedestrians only . I like the channel '' Shifter '' for biking infrastructure and culture all around the world .
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
I really don't like the term "traffic violence," because "violence" implies destructive or forceful intent. Unless we're referring to Road Rage, I doubt traffic violence is an apt term 😂 maybe "traffic negligence" or "traffic recklessness" would be better words for the thing we're trying to describe, or like "reckless and deadly traffic design". Because I think it's more born of ignorance or apathy than cruelty or hatred. I still think it's a massive problem, but I think we oughta understand its nature, and label it correctly.
you mentioned the majority of fire response is EMS, as if someone in cardiac arrest isn't as urgent as a structure fire. I can't receive an EMS call, then take a long dump because it's "just an ems call". Wether it's BS or not the Public demands and is entitled to the fastest response possible when calling 911.
"Traffic Violence" that's an interesting choice of words
What if your measure fails to 'save lives'? What would be the subsequent course of action? Would it entail banning all types of cars or requiring paramedics to use scooters and police to use golf carts?
"Would it entail banning all types of cars or requiring paramedics to use scooters and police to use golf carts?"
Are you being serious? Have you actually read HLA?
Man, these strawman arguments are just ridiculous sometimes...
"What if doing this doesn’t work? Will you try this completely stupid thing I just made up?"
@handsfortoothpicks No, thank you. I prefer not to read liberal propaganda. I feel secure in my beliefs and do not wish to entertain made-up scenarios.
God forbid you or your family needs emergency and because of this new law, they arrive late. I want to see your face then.
Violence: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
It implies intent. I'm pretty sure "traffic violence" doesn't involve intent. This is a horrible name for something that being used and coined for political purposes.
What happened to your friend was bad. I have a friend who had a horrible accident as a kid. We got sidewalk laws passed in Texas to end the issue. You can achieve your goals without the manipulation of language.
Nah. Not are deadly. Not are dealy. Not are worse than. /
Why bikes? Why not bus lanes? I hate they wanna solve everything with bike lanes.
why not both? Why clog public infrastructure if I could just hop on my bike.
This adds both
HLA would add many bus lanes
They added bus lanes on Venice dividing Culver City and Marina from Venice and Mar Vista. It sucks.
Let’s be honest…. No one bikes and no one rides the bus in la. Even metro…. In honesty this disconnects la and is good for localism but makes it harder for us to go from the wayside to west side etc…
Isn't this the guy with the controversial insights on railway infrastructure around LA????????
it's not traffic violence. the traffic is not the autonomous. the driver is. the word you are looking for ^diver^ violence. now repeat it after me, "1.4 million beautiful people saw their lives come to an early end due to lazy gas huffers and the ^driver^ violence they cause"
If you're worried about all these drunk drivers hitting people just establish who they are they're all the day laborers who are getting drunk first thing in the morning in the ghettos look at where these accidents are happening. I've been in a liquor store at 8:00 a.m. where they're selling beers. And they all get their car and drink and drive. I've been around the construction industry of my whole life to current. There's your answer. Not trying to be racist or anything. I love my Multicultural community and everyone in it🎉
I don't see where this addresses what's killing so many people on the streets: texting while driving. It also proposes dangerous impediments like "bulb-outs," which force cyclists into traffic and prevent drivers from getting out of traffic while waiting to turn.
"Vision Zero" is a failure because, again, it does nothing to take "distracted" drivers off the road. Until texting is made a DUI-level offense, everything else is absurd and futile hand-waving.
Ugh, and here we are at 02:54 in the video: "biking on Melrose." WHY? Why not bike on Clinton or Waring, which are exactly parallel to Melrose?
And look at the preposterous renderings of the proposed Melrose, which has deleted half its capacity in another bizarre effort to turn a major street into a mall. Didn't you learn from the Bonin fiasco?
Next up in the video: a defense of developer hand-outs, which allow developers to destroy existing neighborhoods by building large structures without parking. Again, it pushes this insulting lie that people will magically be able to give up their cars and walk all over a huge county because their building doesn't have parking. Grow up. The people moving into those buildings are going to flood the surrounding neighborhood with their cars, making it impossible for existing residents to park anywhere near their own homes.
And that's just 1/4 of the way through. This is another regurgitation of the same false claims we've heard ad nauseum, to excuse the destruction of taxpayer-owned streets and existing neighborhoods.
Pererving existing neighborhoods is when making their children develop asthma and die to cars while going to school
Never ask how drivers are killing so many people, or exactly which drivers. They want you to think it's just cars.
You are in a city of over 3 million people. If you want to be around lots of parking, tall buildings go live somewhere else.
My problem with HLA is that It's anti-car in the worst way. Instead of improving public transportation it just takes away lanes from cars making traffic worse. Therefore forcing car owners to abandon their vehicles for public transportation. Instead of convincing them that there are alternative options that are also feasible.
"Therefore forcing car owners to abandon their vehicles for public transportation. Instead of convincing them that there are alternative options that are also feasible."
Do you expect us to ask every single car owner first and then make it feasible to bike?
@@handsfortoothpicks Painting a 3 foot gap on the right lane so that there's a designated spot for cyclist is feasible. Taking up the entire lane To add a 3 foot gap blocked off by embedded plastic barriers Is putting bicycles over cars on the street. As someone who drives from the suburbs into downtown for the last 6 years There are cyclists during rush hour but there might be 3 for every 100 cars. Let's not hurt 100 commuters just so we can help 3.
This is a stupid idea traffic is horrible as it it with these stupid measures this is a ridiculous measures wait and see the use will be for people living on the streets and way more trash
The real problem is pedestrian and cyclists doesn't know how to cross streets. Ive been to countries where streets are so unsafe and yet there are less accidents. Our streets are too safe that people forgot crossing streets can be dangerous. I see cyclists and runners not even slow down because they have right of way. I always follow the stop look and listen rule and i make sure the drivers see me and have eye contact.
How can LA streets be simultaneously dangerous and safe?
@@cmmartti its too safe that people are de synthesized of the dangers of crossing streets. Im for safer LA and might even vote yes on this but i think people are focusing on the wrong things. Teaching kids to cross and making it a habit for pedestrian and cyclists yo slow down and stop at intersections regardless who has right of way
@@bangwi Nonsense. If it was safe no one would get hurt at all.
At the end of the day any improvement to safety is a . win for everybody. Whether its through education or infrastructure the goal is the same
Vote NO! Road diets like the ones HLA is promoting have caused havoc on LA streets, Venice, Mar Vista, Culver Culver City, once streets that were fine as they were now reduced by lanes, Causing mass gridlock, And dangers for Emergency personnel. As someone who bikes, these lanes are MUCH more unsafe, causing BIG blind spots and more opportunities to be hit. LA isn’t meant for bikes, and that isn’t going to change. All this is going to do is waste money, and cause worse environmental damage due to cares idling stuck in gridlock. I’ve talked to many bicyclists and pedestrian, and they almost all prefer the old streets.
" look at all of the crashes and injuries this has caused on Venice blvd in mar vista"
Look at the Netherlands
@@handsfortoothpicks LA is very different than the netherlands
@@DylanKevilleSirens ????
And? There are still people, there are still cars, there is still traffic. What makes LA "very different" from the netherlands. There is none.
More bs. Those stupid white cones just get in the way and does not help in anyway shape or form
No on HLA!!!!
More stupid spending! Bicyclists get hit bc they’re all over the roads and don’t use bike lanes.
SERIOUSLY! In DTLA they turned 7th Street from 5 lanes to 2 lanes - a 5 min drive now takes 20-30mins.
There are far more important issues than lame bike lanes. They’re doing this to force people to take disgusting,
unsafe, unreliable & ridiculously slow public transportation.
You can't have it both ways. You can't complain that cyclists don't use bike lanes while simultaneously arguing against building them. How are cyclists to use bike lanes that don't exist?
Have you ever considered public transportation is unreliable and slow because we force them to share a lane with cars that are only carrying one person? If we converted a mixed travel lane to a bus-only lane you speed up bus commutes and make bus service more reliable.
@@cmmartti There are already bike lanes. Taking 3 lanes on a 5 lane street to build a bike lane is MORONIC! That’s 7th st in DTLA one of the main streets. If one car needs to make a right turn literally nobody goes on that green light other than the 1 car turning. Plus No matter how many bike lanes you make bicyclist will go where ever it’s faster and more convenient; sidewalks, bike lanes, streets even on the freeway! Bicyclist get hit by cars when they drive in the street with cars. So, Yeah, I can complain about wasting taxpayer dollars that won’t make anyone safer and create 10X traffic.
@@LoveToday8 Making bike lanes does not stop busses and trains from breaking down. Making bike lanes will not make busses and trains safer. Making bike lanes will not make busses and trains cleaner. Building bike lanes is LA City Councils is their way to purposely create traffic all over the city “HOPING” that more people will take public transportation and it wont. It is part of their city planning theory. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars when they could be doing something about homeless of crime.
cyclists are hit because people suck at driving. and maybe if you want them to be in bike lanes, don't vote against bike lanes genius.
To me, all this sounds useless. Let musk build our subways.
" Let musk build our subways."
That boring tunnel under LA is stuck in traffic LMFAOO
actual clown
Our entire family and friends VOTED NO to HLA.
3.1 billion? and Firefighters are absolutely against this because it will just slow them down.
Who’s getting their pockets full from this?
ABSOLUTELY VOTE NO
Watch it before you judge it
@@JermaniBurroughs Sorry. You're never getting any real improvement in LA as long as the demographics stay like this (or get worse).
@@felix-ve8jk Tell that to people in Santa Monica which has the Highest Bike Ridership.
"Our entire family and friends VOTED NO to HLA. "
Your entire family and friends voted to kill children because yall sniffed to much far fumes
"Who’s getting their pockets full from this? "
Car companies, oil companies, and the firefighters
I'm going to vote no
Make sidewalks safer????? Homeless live on the side walks.
Then build appropriate housing. But of course you don't want any of that as well.
They do not ride the bike lanes they rise the street being in the way of the rest of the cars. They need to be ticketed.
VOTE “NO” ON HLA!
It passed. We failed. :(
Were in huge debt. We dont have the money to pay for HLA.
The measure hasnt passed yet AND YOUR MONEY IS ALREADY BEING SPENT ON IT.
Los Angeles has some of the heaviest traffic, why take away lanes????
Why take away parking spots??
Converting some car trips to biking, transit, and walking trips reduces the number of cars on the road, creates less competition for parking, and actually brings traffic rates down. On the financial side, car infrastructure is by far the most expensive to build and maintain. And the other modes of transportation mentioned are proven to be better for local businesses, generating more tax revenue for the city.
"Were in huge debt. We dont have the money to pay for HLA. "
Look up the LAPD police budget
"Los Angeles has some of the heaviest traffic, why take away lanes????"
Lanes aren't just being taken away. They are being repurposed, like bus and bike lanes, which are both reasonable modes of transportation.
"Why take away parking spots??"
To encourage those other options
@@NickCronDeVico I ain't giving up my car neither is anyone else. Drop the nonsense.
@@handsfortoothpicks cause noone is gonna do that. Almost noone does that in LA. Unless we get taxed into abandoning our cars. It's a kickback type contract. Someone is gonna make money from the contract and kick a little 💸💵💵 back to the politicians. 3.1 billion for worthless bike lanes. Reminds me of the geniuses who bought those RVs for homeless only to leave them to rot cause they couldn't get septic/sewer drain connections. We lost millions on it. Just like we lost all those IPADS and Chromebooks from our schools. I can keep going.....
@@MrGunnerru there are some who would consider it imprudent to call an opposing opinion nonsense without paying any actual attention to what those holding said opinion are actually saying.
If you live in such a vast urban area as Los Angeles, you really should not need a car to get around. There is plenty of demand for public transit, and the city could be adapted to work with transit, as it did in and prior to the 1920s. See "Not Just Bikes" for more ideas on how to transition away from cars. I would especially recommend the cargo bike "Bakfiets" video, the carshare video, the "Autoluw" video, and there are plenty more that you can explore on your own.
This will make so much traffic 🚦 No!
No
I will be voting no. No to the nonstop gentrification of L.A.
'No to the nonstop gentrification of L.A."
You are literally advocating for the continuous paving of LA
LA is already gentrified