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Downtown's Black Market

By Eric Richardson — February 07, 2005

From a longer post over on my blog: Getting into Union Station I wasn’t sure if the DASH D ran until 6:30pm or 7pm (turns out it’s 7pm, so I could have taken it), so I walked down to the Red Line and rode that to Pershing Square. Walking back from there I went down Hill to stop at the ATM, headed south, and then east on 6th. Waiting for the light...


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Historic Core Walking Tour

By Eric Richardson — February 05, 2005
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This morning I took the LA Conservancy’s Historic Core walking tour. I’d previously taken the Historic Broadway Theatre tour with my mom, but then had been very remiss in taking advantage of any of the others. So yesterday I called up the Conservancy, signed up, and this morning showed up at the Biltmore at 10am. As I’m sure all of their tours...


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Villaraigosa on Transit

By Eric Richardson — February 04, 2005

I mentioned back in December that Villaraigosa had announced an intention to extend the Red Line to the ocean. I was a bit incredulous at the costs, but I like the vision. Today the LA Times talks about Antonio’s transit plan (Mayor Sam would say it’s the same as Hertzberg’s, but that’s neither here nor there). The quote I found interesting...


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LA Times Covers Cultural Affairs

By Eric Richardson — February 04, 2005

This morning the LA Times has a piece on yesterday’s Cultural Affairs meeting. Staff writer Steve Hymon does a good job of portraying the meeting, and includes some fascinating response quotes from City Council members. For instance, “I don’t think we’re going to appreciate the fact the commission is trying to establish their own agenda...


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Cultural Affairs Takes a Stand

By Eric Richardson — February 03, 2005

It was a fun morning. I skipped out on my public service class this morning (with teacher approval) to go sit in on a meeting of the Cultural Affairs Commission (note that the list of Commissioners is out of date). As I mentioned Tuesday, they were revisiting the city’s proposal to build the new LAPD headquarters on the old Caltrans site across from City...


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Quote of the Day

By Eric Richardson — February 02, 2005

Just now I was walking up 5th St., between Los Angeles and Main. Five or six white girls, probably in their twenties, were walking the other direction. A couple had conference style hanging nametags on. Quote of the day, said quietly by an older black man leaning against the wall with a cane: Y’all aren’t from around here, are you? I’m going...


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TripMaster: No Truth in Advertising

By Eric Richardson — February 01, 2005
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I know I’ve already beat up on the MTA’s new TripMaster software over at my blog, but they make it where I can’t stop. Today they made it the default for all trips, not just advanced searches. I’m going to make this blunt: Dear MTA, Your new TripMaster software is incredibly bad. Please make it go away until you can get it to work...


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LADOT: More F Service; But This Time F Means Good

By Eric Richardson — February 01, 2005

If I wouldn’t have been on the LADOT site for something else, I would never have noticed that DASH F service is (as of yesterday) now every ten minutes. LADOT is pleased to announce that effective Monday, January 31, 2005, we are adding an additional bus to the DASH F weekday service. Service on this route will now operate every ten minutes from 6:30...


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If You Don't Like the Answer, Try Again

By Eric Richardson — February 01, 2005

Following up on my mention a week ago that Cultural Affairs had voted against the LAPD Headquarters plan, interested parties should note that the plan will once again be on the agenda when the Commissioners meet this Thursday. From the agenda PDF: The following project was presented at the January 20th, 2005 meeting of the Commission. A Motion to approve in...


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Another Look at Parking

By Eric Richardson — February 01, 2005

Just in the last week the CRA (whose website is all Flash… is that legal under Section 508 rules?) put up the initial reports from their Downtown Parking Study. Today the LA Business Journal follows with a piece titled ”L.A.’s Downtown Renaissance Resulting in Parking Shortage.” The report, based on interviews with residents, business owners...