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Just as City Council sits down today to consider a moratorium of sorts on Billboards, bicycle activist Stephen Box finds this on a Class I "Bike Path" off Culver Blvd. Planning... at its best. Le sigh.
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That's great. Not sure what's worse, the billboard pylons or the peds in the lane.
This makes me laugh out of sadness.
Peds in the lane? Where should they be, in the street?
As far as I know in my research, there is no law that can stop peds from being in a bike path. As annoying as it is, we just have to work together on that one.
I love the amount of $ that has been spent on this trail. I used to live half a block away from it some years back.
I remember that about 6 years ago they tore it all up and made it nice and pretty with really nice landscaping and sans the billboard problem because the path swerved around it. Then they started doing work on the 405 about 4 years ago and tore up all the nice landscaping and all the other work that had been done about 2 - 3 years prior, including areas that were nowhere near the construction zone.
One word: awesome.
Go the final step. Paint the billboard supports black. That'll make it fun at night. :)
I can imagine the 20-plus person "CC:" emails that this will generate within the City Council. ;)
There was a post recently on the streetsblog network about places where poles are directly in the center of sidewalks, sometimes taking the majority of what little sidewalk space there is.
They jokingly did a photoshop job of what it would be like if we took poles and stuck them in the middle of street for cars to swerve around. Only fair right?
L.A.: We Shall Not Progress.
Not to be a geography Nazi, but isn't this in Culver City, not Los Angeles? The green street sign yonder seems to indicate so. (And if my geography serves me correct, that is Culver's intersection with Sawtelle).
If so, the *point* of this entry is moot.
But with that said, the placement of this billboard is horrible.
It is LA, not Culver City. The stretch of land runs east-west along Culver Blvd. South.
It runs along the border with Culver City in some areas, and some stretches of the trail are in Culver City (those a bit east of the 405 if not mistaken), but this particular billboard is on the LA side.
Regardless of which side of the border it sits on, it's retarded, should be fixed, and is representative of a general attitude in the LA area, and a lot of places in America for that matter, that sticking things in the middle of walk ways and bike ways is fine.
CC has one of the oddest geographic layouts I've ever seen.
The billboard supports are there for bikers pleasure. Ever run a slalom?
FWIW the city just signed off on new billboard rules and regulations. It includes a three month moratorium. (good luck with THAT). Read all about it here.
The peds in the picture are headed toward Sawtelle Boulevard which is in Culver City. But they are still in Los Angeles in the picture. In fact the billboard pretty much marks the edge of Los Angeles. How sad that a billboard is the new "Welcome to LA!" icon.
A good question would be: which came first, the bike lane or the billboard structure?
The original bike path was built in 1997, work started 4 years? ago on the HOV lanes up ahead, somewhere along the way Culver Blvd. got widened and the old bike path disappeared, only to be replaced by this "LADOT approved" and contractor installed waste of asphalt.
Added to the Bikewise hazards database here