To measure the HLA on a 5 March polling in Los Angeles, diet on the roads of hundreds of miles on the streets of the city – to slow down cars and discourage driving – will make it compulsory to build a cycle and transit network on the neighborhood roads on the city – it will make it safe for pedestrians and bicylists.
Bring a ballot known as healthy roads, or measures HLA, is supported by major bicycle and transit groups and will give a mandate that in the neighborhood where the city is planning to repair more than 660 feet of its local road, a road diet or other changes will be implemented.
“It’s about safety, but it is also about government transparency and efficiency,” Michael Schneider said for all for cycling and pedestrian advocacy group roads and the author of measurement. “All HLA requires the city to implement its plan at any time to implement its plan.
But critics and opponents say that nothing is simple about HLA.
The CouncilMambar Tisi Park stated that it is concerned about the cost of the mandate, when the city is “looking close to the loss of half a billion dollars.”
Measure the HLA, he said in an interview, “A financial obligation that will necessarily have to come at the cost of other top priorities – such as homeless, public safety, affordable housing and addressing infrastructure.”
If approved, the HLA will give the city a cost of more than a decade $ 2.5 billion or $ 250 million per year in a year, according to a report by La City’s administrative officer Matthew Sazabo. The remedy will affect the city’s repair schedule, for a delay of los angeles from $ 73 million to $ 139 million, according to Sazabo’s report.
“This ordinance may increase the cost of litigation against the city and does not identify a new funding source. Therefore, other city services may require a turn of existing funds,” Sajabo found.
In 2015, the Los Angeles City Council approved the Mobility Plan 2035, with a vision to remake about 2,500 miles of roads and increase security for pedestrians, cyclists and transit.
If passed, when the city resumes a section of at least 660 feet long road, new crosswalk to measure the HLA, preserved bicycle lane instead of car travel lane, ADA-Anupal Husbandry Carb and other road changes will require mentioned in the city’s mobility plan 2035.
Under measurement, not all roads will be part of the program. Measurement HLA focused on six so -called mobility networks including the neighborhood, pedestrians, transit, bikes, vehicles and bike lanes.
For example, a “pedestrian network” will include an increased crosswalk, automatic pedestrian signal, pavement widening and public seating space. The “pedestrian enhanced” group will install peak-hour restrictions for parking and twist. The “bike enhanced” network will include bicycle lanes with safety that includes plastic bollar and concrete curb.
Supporters say that the city has failed to reduce the number of traffic, making only part of the road diet and infrastructure, they say that the roads will be safe.
Pedestrian traffic has increased in recent years. The death toll in accidents is increasing in Los Angeles. Last year, estimated 336 people were killed in traffic, leap of 8% from last year. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, more than two-thirds of those deaths were pedestrians and cyclists.
Supporters of the measurement say that the serious picture would have to change and it is supported by a wide range of politicians and neighborhood groups. Members of the five Los Angeles City Council supported the initiative, including Uniz Hernandez, Nithya Raman, Katy Yaroslavski, Marxi Harris-Davason, Heather Hatt, and Hugo Soto Soto-Martinez.
Forty of the 99 neighborhood councils in the city supported the remedy, including Arts District Little Tokyo, Boyle Heights, Canoga Park, Central Hollywood, RESEDA, Silver Lake and Van Nuies.
On 14 February, council members Raman, Harris-Davason and Soto-Martinez made a proposal, asking the city agencies to develop a plan to prioritize funds that would have to go to measure HLA projects on March 5, approving measurement by voters.
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At a press conference on 14 February, United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, International Association of Fire Fighters, and California’s professional firefighters urged voters of Los Angeles to measure HLA.
Freddy Escobar, president of the United Firefighters, Los Angeles City, said in a statement, “Every year our firefighters and paramedics responds to more than 500,000 calls for service – and in an emergency, each second count.” “The HLA will increase the reaction time, the mass will disrupt the withdrawal during emergency conditions, and will end the public by slowing us.
Counselmambar Park, whose district is at 11 Westside, joined the groups criticizing the plan and made a proposal earlier this month, as well as Los Angeles City Council President Paul Kracorian and Councilmen John Lee urged the city to see the total cost of HLA – and its impact on the city’s efforts to repair road repair.
The park note that this remedy is associated with the city’s revival schedule – a schedule that is planned many years ago. But the remedy under HLA, whenever the city repeats a portion of the road which is at least 660 feet long, the remedy requires additional functions such as bus or bike lanes.
And on some roads, a traffic lane will be removed to make way for bus and bicycle lanes.
Park said, “Instead of prioritizing the completion of the project on the basis of feasibility, location, requirement, cost, security or other factors, it is only associated with the program of that (existing City Street) resurrection,” the park said. “My concern is that what we essentially eliminate is a system of road diets, which is not in time for 2028 Olympics.”
When similar measures were applied on Vista del Mar, the road along the coast near the Docwile State Beach, “it caused the gridlock and the increase in vehicle confrontation and cases against the city, due to which it eventually took the city out on the road,” he said, he said, he said, “he said that” he said that “he said that” he said.
Jack Humphreville, Chairman of the DWP Advockey Committee, who is engaged on issues including water and power in the neighborhood councils of the city, said that it is important to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe, he questioned whether the measure would immediately address the problem.
He said that the city’s bureau of street services “are not known as the most skilled thing in the world, to put it lightly. Even if you pass the remedy, will they be able to do what they say they are going to do?”
A group of members of the neighborhood formed to promote participation in the city’s land use and planning issues, Sindi Claghorn, president of the Planchakanak, is disappointed, disappointed that the HLA can spoil traffic, especially in mountainous regions.
A few months ago, the Angels in its Los Angeles in the neighborhood of Tuzunga was stuck in the foothills near the National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains, the new bike lane was installed on the foothills bullets, converting the major road to “parking site”.
“In a few days you can’t achieve emergency, and you can’t do emergency in mountainous regions,” he said.
Cleaghorn said that he wanted the 99 Neberhood Council to give more opportunities to share his feedback on the measurement HLA before putting it on the ballot.
“These elected officers and their employees and city department, they need to listen to people,” he said. “What about our response? What about our engagement?”
But the Schneider, the author of the measurement and the founder of the Advockese Group Streets for All said that the ballot measures are supported by a wide range of neighborhood councils, environmental groups and business organizations.
Other supporters of measurement HLA include solidarity here! Local 11, SEIU local 721, climate resolution, roads for all, and riding a black time.
The Schneider questioned the cost calculation of the city’s Chief Administrative Officer Szabo and claimed that the cost of implementing the plan would be 90% less than Szabo’s estimate of $ 2.5 billion in the next 10 years.
“We don’t think the city wants to live in the way a pedestrian dies every two days,” he said. “We want security improvement in dynamics plan to make it safe around the city.”
2024 Primary Election of President
Election Day: March 5, 2024. Election closed at 8 pm
Preliminary voting: You can vote in the Los Angeles County Registrar Office starting on Monday, February 5. The Registrar is headquartered in 12400 Imperial Highway, Room 3002, Norwalk. The office is open from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
Vote-by-Mail: The ballot started going out on Thursday, 1 February. You can submit VBM in three ways: by mailing them to the Registrar’s office (the correct address in VBM and the postal envelopes with the previously included postal envelopes); By placing them in an official drop box; Or leaving them in any county vote center.
VBM Deadline: The VBM sent via mail should not come later after seven days of the election, but they should be postmaked by 5 March. The deadline for keeping VBM in the drop box or distributing them to the vote center is 8 pm on the election day.
Vote Center: Vote Center opened 10 days before the election day. This year, it is Saturday, 24 February. You can vote in any vote center in Los Angeles County. Before the election day, the vote center will be open from 10 am to 7 pm on the election day, they will be open from 7 am to 8 pm.
About ballot papers: In California, the race of order is listed on ballot papers, goes from local to federal, which means that the nominee nominees for the President will be listed at the bottom. Except for the President’s race, California’s primary-now known as “voter-supported offices” for the “biased” offices, has a top-two system. This means that the top two vote gates in the race given in the general election regardless of the political party.
For more information to find a drop box or vote center: lavote.gov.