PebHmong Discussion Forum

General Category => Debate Central => Topic started by: theking on October 30, 2022, 11:53:45 PM

Title: Wasteful spending with CA tax dollars?? Part 2
Post by: theking on October 30, 2022, 11:53:45 PM

A $2-million 'bike lane to nowhere' symbolizes L.A.'s outrageous dysfunction

The Los Angeles LGBT Center had to spend $2 million to complete what was billed as a bike lane as a condition for city approval. On a short stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood is a sidewalk cutout that was billed as a bike lane. A short half-block long, it took about 18 months to complete and cost roughly $2 million, and yet it is not marked as a bike lane and does not connect to one. “It’s a bike lane to nowhere,” …
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-29/lopez-column-2-million-bike-lane-to-nowhere-symbolizes-la-chronic-dysfunction (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-29/lopez-column-2-million-bike-lane-to-nowhere-symbolizes-la-chronic-dysfunction)