Downtown LA is nothing though. When you see it for the first time, it is super disappointing. Most medium size US cities have a larger downtown district. It is a meaningless place in LA. Los Angeles is the definition of urban sprawl for a reason. When most people talk about LA they actually mean everything around the entire LA basin from Santa Rosa to San Clemente and from the pass to Victorville down to Marietta. Many people commute daily across these entire regions. There is no effective public transit around Los Angeles. I lasted 4 years riding a bicycle everywhere in the basin. I was hit 6 times by 7 cars with the double anomaly disabling me. Bike commuting is a death sentence here. I’m literally on a doomed path to homelessness as a result of my bad luck. I was known for going out of my way to be safer than most, I simply rode 400+ miles on the road and trails every week for years. It is a numbers game. Someone will eventually make a u-turn from a parallel parked position in a way that a cyclist cannot avoid. As long as parallel parked cars exist, cyclists will die. Without public mass transit like Manhattan, ditching cars is nonsense. This is only a tax on the poor to toll troll the public and overload surrounding infrastructure on critical connectors to benefit the rich.
Downtown LA is nothing though. When you see it for the first time, it is super disappointing. Most medium size US cities have a larger downtown district. It is a meaningless place in LA. Los Angeles is the definition of urban sprawl for a reason. When most people talk about LA they actually mean everything around the entire LA basin from Santa Rosa to San Clemente and from the pass to Victorville down to Marietta. Many people commute daily across these entire regions. There is no effective public transit around Los Angeles. I lasted 4 years riding a bicycle everywhere in the basin. I was hit 6 times by 7 cars with the double anomaly disabling me. Bike commuting is a death sentence here. I’m literally on a doomed path to homelessness as a result of my bad luck. I was known for going out of my way to be safer than most, I simply rode 400+ miles on the road and trails every week for years. It is a numbers game. Someone will eventually make a u-turn from a parallel parked position in a way that a cyclist cannot avoid. As long as parallel parked cars exist, cyclists will die. Without public mass transit like Manhattan, ditching cars is nonsense. This is only a tax on the poor to toll troll the public and overload surrounding infrastructure on critical connectors to benefit the rich.