LAist: Residents Blame Crime on Bike Path

RMSpuhler

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:22:45 -0800

The story alludes to five people speaking for closing the bike ramp. Did they speak a different language? 'Cause that's the main reason I can think of to not quote a single one, when instead we're treated to five paragraphs summing up the pro-bike side. I don't have a dog in the fight, but it'd be hard to find a more-slanted way to write this without dipping into namecalling.

mrpanitz

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:44:42 -0800

another problem is that ballona bike trail is under 3 different jurdisctions Culver city (in Culver city) then LAPD (los Angeles) to Lincoln blvd then LA county sheriff as well as the army corp of engineers as well

ephemerae

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:00:42 -0800

Scapegoating at its worst. Pathetic.

wendito

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:55:33 -0800

NIMBYs!

Elise Thompson

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:06:38 -0800

If the bike path is so teeming with crimiinals, wouldn't locking the gate close off an escape route for their victims on the bike path? Why not beef up police patrols on the bike path instead?

Will Campbell

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:15:41 -0800

Awesome report Stephen. Besides the fact that a closed chainlink gate will do little to detour crime here's another point that makes Bill Rosendahl's motion so blunderfully useless: There is an access point to the bike path a mere fifth of a mile downstream form the Purdue/Culver Drive gate at Coolidge Avenue on the westerns side of Culver Slauson Park, a known gathering point for youths of various stages of repute, ill or otherwise. Wanna lock that one up too Councilman Billy? Certainly the 405 serves as a great divider of the neighborhood north of the creek, but it's naive and misguided to believe the barring of a gate will reduce crime. On a related note, the gates to the bikeway on the west side of Sepulveda Boulevard have been locked for more than a week. WTF?

thegodofthor

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:37:24 -0800

So if robbers use the 405 to rob a 7/11 we close the off ramps for the 405. Sounds like the police need to just be reminded to do their job. These bike paths get forgotten about and can quickly become scary. But closing gates is just giving up and letting lawbreakers win. we need more bike paths not less. I ride that path all the time and I will tell you that during rush out it can take me less time to ride to the ocean using that path then to drive their in my car.

danwuh

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:21:38 -0800

I wanted to write a snide, sarcastic comment here but im still speechless.