PlebisPower
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As a longtime follower of Los Angeles neighborhood councils, I now publish Tribuni Plebis, a website focused on neighborhood council land use activities.
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Thanks for the liveblog! Reporter stand-ups at the scene seem so 20th century, don't they? #OWS is nourished by citizen reporting and new tools. #MSM merely feeds on it today. I'll remember #OccupyLA for live the liveblogs & twitter streams,...
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Oh heavens, I remember when Street Services was rolling out the slurry seal campaign about 4-5 years ago. That roadshow took it directly to the neighborhoods to try and gin up local support for the Street Services budget line item....
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I believe that most bike advocates/activists like me agree that sidewalk riding is not prudent. It increases conflict opportunities with both pedestrians and motorists, with the latter more likely to strike the cyclist at an alley, driveway, or corner. As...
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Commented on A Brief History of Sunset Junction: Street Cars, Gay Rights and its Namesake Festival
in SoCal FocusThanks - this is so timely! The Sherman Los Angeles Pacific (later Pacific Electric) line went though our little burgh of Beverly Hills (originally known as 'Morocco'). So we were on the mainline right from the start. Soon we were... -
>Gridlock "makes residents of the area virtual prisoners in their own neighborhoods." I applaud the coming of the subway - we'll do the right thing when we exhaust all other options, right? - but the Supervisor forgets that there is...
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The irony here is in framing it as a transportation project (for the bike lane) when it really is a real estate project. Heck, it's not even a parks project! The park and the possible bike lane are only hooks...
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Until this afternoon, both vision and execution were left for dead in City of Los Angeles. Now at least cyclists have something like a vision for the sprawling city - the backbone. Yet the jury will be out for a...
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"...the area planning councils in the reform charter, the system of neighborhood councils, the change in the relationship of the mayor to the department heads and the city council should drive a new kind of civic life in Los Angeles."...
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Thanks for the liveblog! Reporter stand-ups at the scene seem so 20th century, don't they? #OWS is nourished by citizen reporting and new tools. #MSM merely feeds on it today. I'll remember #OccupyLA for live the liveblogs & twitter streams,...
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Oh heavens, I remember when Street Services was rolling out the slurry seal campaign about 4-5 years ago. That roadshow took it directly to the neighborhoods to try and gin up local support for the Street Services budget line item....
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I believe that most bike advocates/activists like me agree that sidewalk riding is not prudent. It increases conflict opportunities with both pedestrians and motorists, with the latter more likely to strike the cyclist at an alley, driveway, or corner. As...
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Commented on A Brief History of Sunset Junction: Street Cars, Gay Rights and its Namesake Festival
in SoCal FocusThanks - this is so timely! The Sherman Los Angeles Pacific (later Pacific Electric) line went though our little burgh of Beverly Hills (originally known as 'Morocco'). So we were on the mainline right from the start. Soon we were... -
>Gridlock "makes residents of the area virtual prisoners in their own neighborhoods." I applaud the coming of the subway - we'll do the right thing when we exhaust all other options, right? - but the Supervisor forgets that there is...
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The irony here is in framing it as a transportation project (for the bike lane) when it really is a real estate project. Heck, it's not even a parks project! The park and the possible bike lane are only hooks...
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Until this afternoon, both vision and execution were left for dead in City of Los Angeles. Now at least cyclists have something like a vision for the sprawling city - the backbone. Yet the jury will be out for a...
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"...the area planning councils in the reform charter, the system of neighborhood councils, the change in the relationship of the mayor to the department heads and the city council should drive a new kind of civic life in Los Angeles."...
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