Uh, #2, traffic calming doesn't necessarily lead to more congestion. Forcing drivers to slow down can, if it's done right, actually increase the capacity of the network. Freeway ramp meters work on a similar principle.
One of the best two or three taco trucks in Los Angeles is also on York--El Pique, in the parking lot of the car wash on the corner of York and Avenue 53.
Also, the walking stick guy might well have been in HP for 40 years. It's kind of a weird neighborhood. When you see guys like that walking down Vernon Avenue between Broadway and Main, then we'll talk.
A lot of the people who contributed to HP being a ghetto area ended up selling their houses to gentrifiers and using the resulting giant pile of cash to buy big, tacky houses in the high desert. Their children stop running with Las Avenidas and merge into the local gangs--or they come and gang-bang back in the old 'hood on the weekends. It happens all the time in gentrifying areas: Sawtelle used to be mighty dubious, for example, but despite the proliferation of "SOTEL 13" tags around the Westside, you're not likely to find many Sotel members in the area except on weekends at Stoner Park.
Uh, #2, traffic calming doesn't necessarily lead to more congestion. Forcing drivers to slow down can, if it's done right, actually increase the capacity of the network. Freeway ramp meters work on a similar principle.
One of the best two or three taco trucks in Los Angeles is also on York--El Pique, in the parking lot of the car wash on the corner of York and Avenue 53.
Also, the walking stick guy might well have been in HP for 40 years. It's kind of a weird neighborhood. When you see guys like that walking down Vernon Avenue between Broadway and Main, then we'll talk.
A lot of the people who contributed to HP being a ghetto area ended up selling their houses to gentrifiers and using the resulting giant pile of cash to buy big, tacky houses in the high desert. Their children stop running with Las Avenidas and merge into the local gangs--or they come and gang-bang back in the old 'hood on the weekends. It happens all the time in gentrifying areas: Sawtelle used to be mighty dubious, for example, but despite the proliferation of "SOTEL 13" tags around the Westside, you're not likely to find many Sotel members in the area except on weekends at Stoner Park.
Actually, #9, I kinda have a master's in economics and my area of concentration for my PhD is urban economics.