Metamodernism

It’s funny how after several days of people nervously posting about whether or not Newsom will sign SB 79, the best insight we’ve gotten is from Gavin himself on a Fortnite stream

Lmaooooo

(buttons) sign SB 79 | Water down SB 79 | Veto SB 79 -- (man sweating and looking anxious) Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom has been California’s best housing governor ever -- SB 79 will make or break that legacy. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
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Dinah's restaurant to be incorporated into mixed-use project in Westchester The strip mall that plays host to the Westchester location of Dinah's is poised for redevelopment - but fear not, fried chicken aficionados, the local landmark is safe.

Nice to see the development at the former Dinah’s has been pushing dirt. I just hope it’s not completely stalled!

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It was much better before the regional connector opened. They ran 6-minute headways and managed it pretty well! They want to build a bunch of new interlockings and change traffic flow on Washington and Flower, but they won’t get any Olympics money now so who knows what they will actually do

The wildest part of this story is how the gold line authority is going to build an extension with one more station for $800 million.

He has until October 13 to sign or veto. If he wants to make a big deal out of it, he’ll do a big signing ceremony. But if he doesn’t take any action, it goes into law.

I must choose D. LB Cambodian food and OC Vietnamese food is just too good. But it really pains me to not have SGV, just so much good food there.

I really wonder how this is going to play out over the next couple years. Karen Bass wants to use state legislation to change ULA, but maybe city council will try to do something first. And then there’s the whole HTJA measure

Which one?

Yeah I think that’s where they really just need to extend the cut and cover tunnel somehow.

I’d love to know how much it would cost Metro to give the A/K/E lines exclusive ROW without grade separations (resignalling, crossing gates, no left turns, fences, etc). They would surely never do this because of the traffic impacts but I’d imagine it would be billions cheaper than elevated/tunneled

Yeah I guess that one would have done more to Windsor Square. But to me Hancock Park/Larchmont/Windsor square all feels the same, since they are all just so much less dense than the surroundings

Makes me mad Metro didn’t build the Wilshire/Crenshaw purple line station. Would have been beautiful to see a large chunk of Hancock Park upzoned.

How many Burger Kings do you think will get demolished now

“Donut” rectangular plan shaped 4-story brick apartment building from Google earth. An interior courtyard with grass is visible, as are open walkways between units.

An image from inside the courtyard showing the open walkways, like a proto-1950s courtyard building.

Figueroa Arms at Fig and 41st is such an odd building. I had assumed it had to be from the 1910s to be so weird but it’s from 1927. I can’t think of anything remotely similar to this from the 1920s in LA (or anywhere else for that matter).

I’m a huge fan of a separate line using SPTC Alt 4/5 technology, with the line ending at Westlake/MacArthur Park with a transfer to B/D lines. But I guess Vermont Corridor Partners is still going to look at like 3 junction options

Signal Hill must be doing pretty well, but I’m pretty sure only a little sliver is affected by SB 79

Top of Figueroa eight tower with no landing pad

Top of beaudry tower with no landing pad

In contrast, two newer buildings have flat roofs but no marked landing pad. For the Figueroa Eight tower, the environmental documents prepared for construction said it would have a landing pad, but it was constructed without one.

Small helipad on the top of Wilshire Grand building

The less stringent landing area still needs to be marked as a landing pad, and it looks like Wilshire Grand is an example of this. Not sure if I trust a random Wikipedia editor, but seems like they may have met the other requirements but still agreed to install this one.

I’m also curious what Long Beach did about their helipad requirement, since older towers have them and the few built in the last decade do not.

Evidently the alternatives must be less ridiculous because it seems like the most recent high rises completed in LA do not have helipads. They still have mostly flat roofs though which is a shame.

I feel like every EIFD study they’ve done has just said “nope not feasible” and didn’t go anywhere

I don’t believe any of the streets chosen for this have peak hour bus/bike lanes. They were just general traffic lanes during peak hours.

Do you have a link to the 2025 plan? Wondering if it’s been shared to the service councils because I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

Also it’s pretty grim how the plan only identifies one funding source for further bus service expansion: congestion pricing (which is now pretty much dead under Wiggins/Bass leadership)

I can’t find the final version of the 2022 plan but the redlined version I can find says it’s permissible to do wider stop spacing “where local conditions allow” like lower density/lower ridership potential areas.

I would hope that stop removal and new bus lanes could help here, but also hard to imagine anything they have done so far has made a dent considering buses in service are stopping more because of less Rapid and more Local service.

Metro advertisement for late night train service many years ago

Bring it back

The freeway widening plans are to eventually create a full network of expresslanes that will help people pay money to go faster without doing real congestion pricing, and I hope fund bus service along them. But it seems like a terrible cost/benefit with the way Metro caps the tolls