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Nithya Raman and her allies want to make LA — a city built around the automobile — more congested and even less drivable.
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LA → want → automobile
The mayor-elect and some of her large campaign donors have pushed for a $3.1 billion road overhaul that would add bike and bus lanes, while squeezing and subtracting driving lanes.
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that → push → lanes
That would mean less space for motorists, more traffic and longer drives on main city arteries such as Lincoln, Santa Monica, Sunset, Venice, Sepulveda and Ventura boulevards — along with the streets around them.
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That → mean → them
This plan is woke ideology masquerading as a health initiative.
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plan → masquerade → initiative
Raman would do well to drop it, and spend city time and resources on initiatives that would enhance — rather than degrade — the lives of everyday Angelenos.
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that → do → Angelenos
While the road-slimming plans are sold as health, safety and climate initiatives, they’re really just leftist snobbery.
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they → slimme → initiatives
Elites enjoy telling others how to live: from which shower heads you buy to where you live and how much you drive.
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you → tell → much
These elites include two wealthy donors to Raman’s campaign, who reportedly spent $2 million combined on the race to help advance their anti-car cause.
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who → include → cause
But reconfiguring LA roads would likely decrease safety — clogging and removing lanes used by police, fire and paramedics — while doing nothing to lower global temperatures.
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reconfiguring → reconfigure → temperatures
In fact, all the idling in extra traffic might drive emissions up.
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idling → idle → emissions
And the left’s carless utopian vision is particularly ill-suited for LA.
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vision → suit → LA
The city is vast, sprawling, spread out.
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city → spread → ?
It’s often impractical to take a bike or a bus to one’s destination.
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It → ’ → destination
And even if it were feasible to ride a bike for, say, 10 miles each way to work, what then?
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it → ride → work
Can a person also pick up the kids from school on a cycle, and then balance a few grocery bags on the handlebars?
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person → pick → handlebars
Then there’s the reality that impeding mobility impairs economic growth.
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mobility → ’ → growth
Large-scale road reconfigurations that restrict vehicle traffic or scrap parking — already a grand frustration in LA — would deter shoppers, hurt merchants and dampen prosperity.
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that → restrict → prosperity
Yes, voters in 2024 did pass Measure HLA, which requires City Hall to add bike and bus lanes and pedestrian upgrades whenever it makes substantial road repairs.
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it → pass → repairs
This is all nice-sounding stuff until one considers what it means in practice.
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it → sound → practice
Raman conceded on Tuesday that HLA’s exorbitant costs have slowed road fixes to a crawl, and she vowed to determine how many barrier-protected bike lanes the cash-strapped city can afford to install.
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city → concede → lanes
But so long as HLA remains on the books, City Hall should address it without punishing motorists.
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Hall → remain → motorists
That means no road diets, no lane subtractions, and no pipe-dream notions that people will suddenly, en masse, find the bus convenient.
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bus → mean → masse
LA does not need $3.1 billion worth of street redesigns.
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LA → need → redesigns
It needs mobility — including and especially by car.
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It → need → car
It needs common sense, rather than smug green elites imposing their preferred way of life on the working-class people of the city.
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elites → need → city
Which raises a question about the mayor-elect.
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Which → raise → elect
Will she govern for those elites — or for the millions of everyday folks who need practical transportation?
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who → govern → transportation
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