Jody Eldred
As a former Segway owner, I’d loved to see the city require them to be driven only on bike paths. They previously have required them to be driven in pedestrian walkways which is DANGEROUS.
(I had a serious accident on mine trying to avoid pedestrians…) It was ridiculous and ignorant that someone in government thought mixing Segways and pedestrians was a smart idea.
As they are fairly pricey they do not appeal to the grunge or aggressive skateboarder/risk-taker types. Aside from tourists, most operators are an older, more conservative demographic.
Making appropriate room for them makes a lot of sense. (BTW the 3-wheeled Segways are almost exclusively law enforcement.)
Bridget Rohmer
Just wanted all to know that someone got into our car last night and stole our nanny’s wallet. They only took cash and then threw the wallet out on the grass with everything else in it. Our car is parked in a gated driveway, so these people have no barriers. Thought you should let the neighborhood know that happened in the 900 block of Oxford and to keep their eyes out!
Yolanda Gonzalez
A lot of people at Chase Park Concert Thursday.
Joe Faust
Incomplete brainstorm for bike-path surface: Surface lets sand
particles drop to a sub-channel; solar energy, wind energy, or
temperature-change energy drives a sand-transport system to carry the
sand away from the sub-channel and back to the beach. Others may
brainstorm about automatic or robotic or passive sand-removing ideas.
Nick Antonicello
Reprinted from 24 July Update issue at request of Nick Antonicello.
This response by the City is less than honest and does not address the specific issue of knoll remediation between the pedestrian path and the bike path.
No one is questioning the sweeping of the path; the issue is remediating the knolls which neither the City of Los Angeles nor the County will address due to probably the cost.
My original request for the City and the County to fix the problem rather than the traditional finger-pointing is disappointing.
According to the County and specifically the Third District Supervisor’s Office as well as Beaches & Harbors is that while the maintenance of the actual bike path is a county responsibility, the grassy knolls (now no longer green or grassy) are the responsibility of the City and in particular the 11th Council District Office which continues to avoid the issue through silence and inaction!
It is the grassy knolls that need remediation. This point has been made consistently over the past year in dozens of email and requests to the 11th Council District Office that for the most part go unanswered and ignored.
I urge residents to inspect the knolls for themselves. I have photos and videos reflective of a problem the 11th District Council Office refuses to acknowledge exists and that’s too bad.
When a rider or bicyclist is hurt because of the unbridled sand that accumulates on the bike path, there will be plenty of evidence the problem for the most part continues to go ignored. Feel free to contact me should you like additional photos or videos and I’ll be glad to supply that information to you.
If elected officials can’t do something this remedial, how can anyone expect these individuals to attack and solve the truly pressing issues at Venice Beach that need solving?
Reta Moser
Mayor Garcetti outlines plan to spruce up LA Streets LA Times, Sunday .One of the streets mentioned is Venice Blvd between Beethoven and Inglewood.
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Comments–28 July 2014
Jody Eldred
As a former Segway owner, I’d loved to see the city require them to be driven only on bike paths. They previously have required them to be driven in pedestrian walkways which is DANGEROUS.
(I had a serious accident on mine trying to avoid pedestrians…) It was ridiculous and ignorant that someone in government thought mixing Segways and pedestrians was a smart idea.
As they are fairly pricey they do not appeal to the grunge or aggressive skateboarder/risk-taker types. Aside from tourists, most operators are an older, more conservative demographic.
Making appropriate room for them makes a lot of sense. (BTW the 3-wheeled Segways are almost exclusively law enforcement.)
Bridget Rohmer
Just wanted all to know that someone got into our car last night and stole our nanny’s wallet. They only took cash and then threw the wallet out on the grass with everything else in it. Our car is parked in a gated driveway, so these people have no barriers. Thought you should let the neighborhood know that happened in the 900 block of Oxford and to keep their eyes out!
Yolanda Gonzalez
A lot of people at Chase Park Concert Thursday.
Joe Faust
Incomplete brainstorm for bike-path surface: Surface lets sand
particles drop to a sub-channel; solar energy, wind energy, or
temperature-change energy drives a sand-transport system to carry the
sand away from the sub-channel and back to the beach. Others may
brainstorm about automatic or robotic or passive sand-removing ideas.
Nick Antonicello
Reprinted from 24 July Update issue at request of Nick Antonicello.
This response by the City is less than honest and does not address the specific issue of knoll remediation between the pedestrian path and the bike path.
No one is questioning the sweeping of the path; the issue is remediating the knolls which neither the City of Los Angeles nor the County will address due to probably the cost.
My original request for the City and the County to fix the problem rather than the traditional finger-pointing is disappointing.
According to the County and specifically the Third District Supervisor’s Office as well as Beaches & Harbors is that while the maintenance of the actual bike path is a county responsibility, the grassy knolls (now no longer green or grassy) are the responsibility of the City and in particular the 11th Council District Office which continues to avoid the issue through silence and inaction!
It is the grassy knolls that need remediation. This point has been made consistently over the past year in dozens of email and requests to the 11th Council District Office that for the most part go unanswered and ignored.
I urge residents to inspect the knolls for themselves. I have photos and videos reflective of a problem the 11th District Council Office refuses to acknowledge exists and that’s too bad.
When a rider or bicyclist is hurt because of the unbridled sand that accumulates on the bike path, there will be plenty of evidence the problem for the most part continues to go ignored. Feel free to contact me should you like additional photos or videos and I’ll be glad to supply that information to you.
If elected officials can’t do something this remedial, how can anyone expect these individuals to attack and solve the truly pressing issues at Venice Beach that need solving?
Reta Moser
Mayor Garcetti outlines plan to spruce up LA Streets LA Times, Sunday .One of the streets mentioned is Venice Blvd between Beethoven and Inglewood.
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