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How to Fall Rock Climbing

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  • @TC1Z2L3
    @TC1Z2L318 сағат бұрын

    People riding their bikes on PCH have a death wish. They'll gladly push you into onconing traffic and act like you're the problem if you're not willing to play chicky run for their safety.

  • @Toddb2368
    @Toddb2368Күн бұрын

    Road diets absolutely positively suck. As to you plan with the road diet, bollards and /or K rail you may have knowledge in traffic engineering but you've obviously not spent too much time on PCH otherwise you'd realize just how much your plan would cripple traffic and also slow police, fire and ems.

  • @Alex_catz
    @Alex_catzКүн бұрын

    I've lived in watts for the majority of my life and seeing the difference in the city between my home and the rest of the city is quite striking, I just wish we had a good amount of trees and new residential developments near the A line

  • @k54ltyd28
    @k54ltyd28Күн бұрын

    uuuuuugggggghhhhhh i left LA a couple months ago this hit me like a truck

  • @lej_explains
    @lej_explainsКүн бұрын

    (Headphones Recommended!) A little palate cleanser from my normal videos, hope you liked it!

  • @kerjectroter3761
    @kerjectroter37614 күн бұрын

    As a tourist from Paris, France. Good luck providing your guests with cost effective public transport services when you host the Olympic Games, trust me it's a hassle to go from Downtown to Universal studios. For the Bunker Hill station, that's a nightmare to find a work around the station.

  • @zorrofox8950
    @zorrofox89504 күн бұрын

    Why the cop hate? You know cops use their phone, and are given phones, to do their jobs. Just because a LEO is on the phone doesn't mean it's for personal use. Many times they receive photos of who to look out for.

  • @zorrofox8950
    @zorrofox89504 күн бұрын

    @4:24 the D E I crew that values feeling over safety and order. Thanks for giving me another reason to never use PT.

  • @jacobbrassard2776
    @jacobbrassard27765 күн бұрын

    The only reason why it isnt used much is that there are so many dangerous tweakers. Almost never have an uneventful ride

  • @Matthew_Loutner
    @Matthew_Loutner5 күн бұрын

    Cities do not build restaurants and shops.

  • @andrewjames1817
    @andrewjames18176 күн бұрын

    ive been up and down paç coast highway

  • @Nathanplayz.shorts
    @Nathanplayz.shorts7 күн бұрын

    I take La metro but it’s more scary now sence people tend to board on with a gun a lot of the times

  • @ropeysubstance1719
    @ropeysubstance17198 күн бұрын

    the major hurdle is that it suddenly became "racist" to enforce laws and police black folks ever since george floyd, so therefore we end up with this mess. police aren't allowed to even give them a dirty look or else they get slapped with federal civil rights offenses, and the ones that do get arrested are cut loose by Shaniqua Johnson and the other black judges who only look out for their folk.

  • @mercedramirez5263
    @mercedramirez52638 күн бұрын

    What the. I ride this every morning and evening from work. Not empty.

  • @commentorsilensor3734
    @commentorsilensor37348 күн бұрын

    It is mentally issue. If Americans continue to love cars, nothing will change. For past decades, transit improvement only appease car drivers but not to transport people. Many people only drive to train stations. With this kind of mentally, nothing will change, TOD has been around in many parts of LA. It is not successful. TOD is expensive. This makes sense. Convenient cost has to be included. This is true everywhere in the world. Why should people pay so much money on TOD when they can get big house. They don't mind driving. In other countries, upper middle class live near train stations because they could afford, and they take publictransportation. Poor live little further by taking frequent buses. In LA, poor cannot afford cars. TOD is too expensive for them. Middle classes cannot afford. Rich people could afford n drive their Mercedes. Having amenities around is a plus, but people need incomes. Does Santa Clarita have good public transportation? I just checked no. If your work is right by union Station or train station, that may work. However life is not perfect. Most jobs are not near train stations. I am not even going to bring industry park in Irvine n many places that implement bus services is mission impossible. I am just talking about local public transportation in the cities where train stations locates. LA transit agencies fail on that. Forget about the places that do not have train stations. So after getting expensive place TOD, people still cannot get to work. I used to work with an IT director. She bought an expensive apartment in Pasadena TOD. She told me she would take public transportation if available. Well, Goldline station is within walking distance. She can get to union Station n catch metrolink to city of industry. Then she either has to walk 2 miles, take Uber. She is workaholic. She started at 9am and didn't go home till 9pm. She came in the weekend. Metrolink doesn't work. Even if frequency is increased to once an hour boh ways from 6am to 9pm. That still doesn't work. She makes enough money to live in expensive TOD. She just drives her Mercedes. I heard same story in Long beach n many places. I take people live in TOD are rich people willing to take public transportation just like that IT director. They have choices to get houses somewhere. Important part is non car drivers, can they get to train stations easily from their cheaper apartments? The answer is no. You can increase frequency. You can build TOD. The most important local public transportation improvements which no one including you talk. People insist public transportation in LA is excellent with so many miles of rails. People insult other by mentioning lack of research. ... Just dump the car n destroy your driver licenses. Don't see what happens. I hope you are one of them. Then, again, you don't bring core problems, local buses. You just mentioned number of miles which does not mean anything. Don't bring other fancy arguments like other rail supporters.

  • @12370david
    @12370david8 күн бұрын

    That picture of 1950s bunker hill blew my mind. That part of LA legit used to look like it had life to it. I'd be willing to bet most of those homes and apartments belonged to POC as well. It's insane what our government got away with in the past, and what they continue to get away to this day.

  • @dawgwiddaglasses
    @dawgwiddaglasses8 күн бұрын

    As someone who uses PCH to commute: Road dieting won’t work , and it’s not going to happen. Maybe on the three lane section leading up to the 10 FWY, but nowhere else. Extreme enforcement measures are necessary. Medians would be great, though. There’s tons of entitled dipshits who use the center lane to skip traffic. Fuck those guys.

  • @andre1987eph
    @andre1987eph9 күн бұрын

    LA METRO slogan: "Too Little and Way Too Late"

  • @kwebs10
    @kwebs1010 күн бұрын

    There used to be freeway signs for the 14 South to "Beaches" on the 5 freeway decades ago. The 14/5 interchange had right of ways cleared for future ramps to the 14 south. Many were eliminated during the reconstruction of the interchange in 1994 and subsequent updates. However, on Google Earth you can see some of the cleared land.

  • @seeingimages
    @seeingimages10 күн бұрын

    Yes, mass transit in L.A. can be safer. No one should be allowed to use it who is under 18 years old and who is not under the direct supervision of his or her mother or father. No one who has mental problems should be allowed to use it. No convicted felons should be allowed to use it. No juveniles on probation should be allowed to use it. No one who has been removed by law enforcement should be allowed to use it for 5 years. Anyone convicted of a crime on Metro property (train car, platform, property surrounding the platform and/or parking area) should be banned from using the Metro for life. All of that together will make it safer.

  • @robw0127
    @robw012710 күн бұрын

    Nooooo!!! Must…have…cars…!!

  • @matty6878
    @matty687812 күн бұрын

    "best design station in LA" isn't saying much lol good luck trying to convince the city of LA to move forward with any plans as simple, as this as long as there are democrats occupying those seats it aint happening.

  • @randytaylor6931
    @randytaylor693112 күн бұрын

    Downtown seems so empty . I grew on the surrounding downtown area near temple street and bunker hill used to have neighborhoods years ago . What I would like to see are those red trolley cars LA had decades ago that would be useful to get from one neighborhood to another locally.

  • @PromenadeMTL
    @PromenadeMTL14 күн бұрын

    It is just the beginning. I think the key is to find long corridors to build the dedicated cycling paths. Even if the paths are not in the most frequented parts of the city it is helpful to have long paths that are good for recreation.

  • @alisosa9836
    @alisosa983614 күн бұрын

    I use this exit for work. It’s super convenient but nobody wants to live along the lines. I live in DTLA and the mentally ill people on the transit make it feel unsafe even with all of the security. I just had someone throw a coffee cup at my feet.

  • @brentsummers7377
    @brentsummers737715 күн бұрын

    Not having fare gates/turnstiles on some lines must be a big problem because fare evaders probably cause 95% of the crime issues. And even where there are fare gates they look very easy to vault over or crawl through 10:00. In contrast the SF BART has just begun installing new fare gates that are about 2 meters high and will be really difficult to get past without paying. Fare evaders are very common in SF as well. About every third time I tapped on with my clipper card I'd be aware of someone at the next gate vaulting over.😂

  • @dante340
    @dante34016 күн бұрын

    Sadly, there are way too many zoning laws and greedy corporate interests that prevent LA from reaching the elite levels of urban efficiency it is capable of. But at least, the D-line (purple line) extension is a solid start in the right direction for now.

  • @Bobby_T_
    @Bobby_T_3 күн бұрын

    And I’d argue that California’s modern culture isn’t helping anything

  • @fuzzywuzzy8679
    @fuzzywuzzy867916 күн бұрын

    What people need to remember is that all construction in Malibu must talk to the California Coastal Commission because the ocean and coast are a big tourist destination

  • @fuzzywuzzy8679
    @fuzzywuzzy867916 күн бұрын

    Also, there’s been a lot of sand erosion, the beaches are narrower, and the cliff sides on the land side of the PCH are already pretty steep and in some places it looks like one strong storm will cause a landslide.

  • @rustypotatos
    @rustypotatos16 күн бұрын

    I’ve never seen a police officer on pch in my entire life

  • @rustypotatos
    @rustypotatos16 күн бұрын

    Pch is a highway and it’s already too congested. Stop walking on the highway. Easy

  • @weedsville6318
    @weedsville631818 күн бұрын

    Are you going to incorporate? The reason why people also don’t ride public transit is because these areas that you were depicting that are so great for transit access and community development and all that are heavily crime ridden places and I mean beyond gang we’re talking homeless and drug addicts out on the streets and the criminally insane I’ve done security all over the county of Los Angeles. If you can’t deal with the crime, you’re not gonna have people who want to use public transit. Secondly, if people can’t afford to live near the public transit in the first place, what’s the point of taking public transit that’s unreliable liable to leave you with some form of PTSD and expensive I’m sure there’s a better urban environment that you could’ve used. L.A. just sucks but I do love it here.

  • @xbmarc
    @xbmarc19 күн бұрын

    Who would've thought that a car crashing at over 100 mph could kill someone. That's a design flaw of the pch...

  • @MC-uy7el
    @MC-uy7el21 күн бұрын

    I took the Gold Line and Red Line up until 2015. Had to stop because the deteriorating conditions in safety. Society has to address the cause of mental health issues, encouragement!!! of drug use etc. Metro civility is a direct reflection of reality, policy matters, not sure which politician(s) will have the right leadership to turn things around.

  • @soundartemultimedia
    @soundartemultimedia22 күн бұрын

    I agree with you that if they make entry difficult for those who do not pay, it would greatly improve security and cleanliness.

  • @vwtazz
    @vwtazz22 күн бұрын

    PCH is NOT dangerous, the dip-shits not paying attention where they are going are the dangerous ones. Speed limits and more rules just make it worse. Stop protecting the stupid. Darwin rules.

  • @noobparty4282
    @noobparty428223 күн бұрын

    That cal trans guy is clearly a diversity hire.

  • @nocancelcultureaccepted9316
    @nocancelcultureaccepted931624 күн бұрын

    Too many Hispanics/Latinos in Los Angeles, who are turning the city into Tijuana 2.0. Let it rot.

  • @nocancelcultureaccepted9316
    @nocancelcultureaccepted931624 күн бұрын

    Too many Hispanics/Latinos in Los Angeles, who are turning the city into Tijuana 2.0. Let it rot.

  • @Trissb1988--
    @Trissb1988--24 күн бұрын

    8:38 Cameras don't give out tickets. It still requires an officer to review the footage to give a ticket.

  • @denisaugustoliossi9117
    @denisaugustoliossi911724 күн бұрын

    Tokyo is an ugly/boring city, with narrow streets, tiny houses...why would LA have anything to learn from it.?

  • @AlCatSplat
    @AlCatSplat24 күн бұрын

    Boring? What makes you say that?

  • @ciello___8307
    @ciello___830717 күн бұрын

    LA is an ugly city where you have to drive to do anything and have to sit in soul crushing traffic and pollution. LA can learn a lot from tokyo

  • @idontevenhavestuff
    @idontevenhavestuff16 күн бұрын

    Lmao this is the worst opinion I've read in a while

  • @Bobby_T_
    @Bobby_T_3 күн бұрын

    Same exact lessons they need to learn from American cities like Miami and Boston. Stop depending on cars so much and build more beautiful and tall buildings

  • @ctsealteam6
    @ctsealteam62 күн бұрын

    Its subjective whether a city is ugly or not. But you have to admit the Tokyo system is mush more superior at moving people around compared to LA. For example, the busiest freeway in LA, I-405 already developed horrible traffic handling a daily average of 379k cars, while Tokyo's yamanote JR line can handle 5M daily average riders. The shinjuku station alone use by almost 3.6M people every day.

  • @amanoso1541
    @amanoso154125 күн бұрын

    400 years ago, Tokugawa Ieyasu created a small Edo in the wilderness, and since then, as it continued to grow, it was constantly remodeled little by little to become the Tokyo of today. When it was decided to hold the Olympics 70 years ago, the people of Tokyo wanted a huge highway like Los Angeles. However, since it was filled with small houses and there was no land, they destroyed the charming canals and forcibly built narrow elevated roads in a short period of time. Since the roads are poor compared to the population, the most rational way to move around is by railways built throughout Tokyo by private companies that make profits from real estate. That is Tokyo. It was not planned by an omnipotent God, it just happened to be in the shape it is now. I think that a city that was planned to create an ideal city ended up being a hellish environment than an unplanned city. It's ironic.

  • @hornet6969
    @hornet696927 күн бұрын

    You are delusional.😊

  • @tjjones33
    @tjjones3327 күн бұрын

    no I need my microplastic and gasoline air quality

  • @hardhang
    @hardhang28 күн бұрын

    forget all of that,. reduce your crime rate first

  • @AlCatSplat
    @AlCatSplat24 күн бұрын

    Better urban planning can fix that.

  • @MichaelfromtheGraves
    @MichaelfromtheGraves28 күн бұрын

    No mention of the rapid transit line currently under construction through Century City??

  • @lej_explains
    @lej_explains28 күн бұрын

    Yes - “we’re building up the scraps today”. Our current transit build out, like the D line extension, was originally supposed to happen much earlier (as part of the 70s plan and prior transit plans by LA county)

  • @Apc7th
    @Apc7th28 күн бұрын

    Its The people. Not the hub

  • @Ducaso
    @Ducaso28 күн бұрын

    Well, if the majority of LA ever quickly burned to the ground, then they’d have a marked opportunity to build it back again with an actual design plan.

  • @eddiecsp9155
    @eddiecsp915528 күн бұрын

    Never gonna happen. American cultural, personality and priorities are far different from Japanese

  • @ciello___8307
    @ciello___830717 күн бұрын

    The US northeast has cities with good transit. Its possible. LA just had bad planning for so long

  • @Hraptor
    @Hraptor28 күн бұрын

    Tokyo isn't an example of how you live well lol

  • @AlCatSplat
    @AlCatSplat24 күн бұрын

    Why not?

  • @Hraptor
    @Hraptor24 күн бұрын

    @@AlCatSplat I love Tokyo but living crammed like that in a city isn’t optimal

  • @AlCatSplat
    @AlCatSplat23 күн бұрын

    @@Hraptor We can adopt the good parts of their urban planning without forcing everyone to live in shoeboxes.

  • @dante340
    @dante34016 күн бұрын

    @@Hraptor Then live in the suburbs and/or countryside. People who live in cities typically want to be as close as possible to where the action is, crammed or not.

  • @Hraptor
    @Hraptor15 күн бұрын

    @@dante340 your bitterness screams “I live in a crammed space and I feel called out”

  • @TheVikingish
    @TheVikingish28 күн бұрын

    First of all, the city planner must think of peoples best and not investors and bankers best.