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Great video. But adding living accommodation (2 or 3 floors) above the businesses would also make sense. LA has a really low density.

The end is awesome! The metro planning to connect ucla weho and playa to culver city is so smart! Loved the video

this video is fucking amazing. i love nimesh in los angeles. you make some of my fav videos about la! i recently moved away from la because of how fucked it was getting, im actually in chicago now and this video does outline how amazing chicago is!! i would really love la to be as amazing as chicago :)

Its a shame that some of the best weather in the nation is wasted on some of the worst urban design. Could you imagine how awesome LA would be with good cycling infrastructure and public transit? Also did I see that right? The second most common cause of pediatric death in the country is gun violence? What the hell...

The Dutch also used speed camera's

It’s the same in Nashville. Traffic congestion is so high that I would rather take the bus and take a nap than drive around Nashville in my own personal car.

*catch the bus

Hey not be rude but Is it Safe to breath that in .. Culver kinda ya know Orange alert..

LA isn't really flat unless you're talking about the city proper. The broader metropolitan area aka Suburban LA is all mountains and valleys which is why you freeze your ass in the burbs in winter while its a burning hot desert in the summers

well forget cars - it's about time we all switch to telecommunicating. Nimesh is already doing this to me, as I to him - so we might as well jump into the future! Forget pavement - make everything digital.

In LA greed is king any sort of sympathy turns you into a peasant, unfortunately i was raised through the church and am a peasant although this has brought me to appreciate public transportation

Something I think you only brushed up against when discussing the market area is that most cities have mixed used commercial/residentail properties and that all those restaurants in downtown culver would normally have apartments on top of them. The result of those more condensed apartments would mean the market area wouldn't need to be as big.

Nope… they actually need better security … the cops should actually patrol bus routes instead of harassing people who are going to work … I cycle to work and THE COPS keep stopping me for making a left !!! WTF, they scream orders instead of understanding regardless if they are WRONG or right… LAPD DOES NOT KNOW about the laws on the road for cycling … god help us, this is what happens when education is devalued and being aggressive is celebrated, you have the world filled with angry people who are all enemies instead of community ….

I live in LA, near downtown, and usually walk 3-4 days/week. The parks nearest me are a 20 minute walk and a 25 minute walk to get to. My favorite park is a 3 mile drive, and some honorable mentions are a 7.5 mile drive and a 14 mile drive. My neighborhood is not super pedestrian-friendly, so getting my walk in definitely takes a bit of planning!

You brought up a lot of concepts from diverse topics-from health to urban planning to business-that I hadn’t heard of before. And I sure didn’t realize they could be related in ways that affect where I live and work. I think this is what we need more of in our discourse.

Those Golf Courses uses Reclaimed water, so most if not all is from recycled water NOT Fresh Water

Love your videos man. Culver is on its way to being seriously improved from a car filled hellscape to an urbanist island nation

Idealistic approach. The assumption here is that the residents here in Culver City are naive/misinformed/lack information about the situation at hand. But the real reason why Culver City's transit project reverted is because of powerful local interests (NIMBYs, wealthy older residents) that have direct access to city council and influence their decisions. Only way to deal with this is to politically organize and fight.

In LA the sidewalks are usually wide enough that i ride on them unless i really have to go on the road. Everything is wider here why cant they make proper bike lanes??

It just hit me that every single person I’ve known who died young did so from car accidents.

Nimesh, I’ve lived here all my life and could never lucidly express my frustration with this car-centric sprawl of concrete we call Los Angeles. Glad to have you here to wake us up.

Downtown Ventura closed Main Street to cars in 2020. In my opinion the best thing they ever did for downtown. But there seems to be a constant battle with drivers that want it opened again

I'm all for public trans, but in general most people in LA choose not to use it due to safety reasons. This literally just happened on a metro bus to a Disneyland employee: ua-cam.com/video/6e1r4TuBvFM/v-deo.htmlsi=6eaIT7bCCjXsCXJ9 Note, my edit was to add the video and this.

Thanks for the video Nimesh. Since moving here for grad school, I found it so hard to believe there’s no train line to UCLA. The traffic is down so much during the summer so clearly theres a heavy load from students. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. I love all your suggestions and I have thought up the exact same thing in some cases. See you around!

Flawed logic creating more traffic through neighborhoods. I drive DTCC daily. Visually, DTCC is one lane hell, but a block away by my office at Sony is two lanes and it flows. People consume more than they can carry, which means public transit, that is already unsafe, makes you go to the market multiple times a week. Parking spaces are narrow, meaning even the common Model Y is kind of jammed in a spot. The bus and bike lanes have high capacity, but if you count the number of people in cars versus very infrequent buses and it is a factor of at least 10x. Nobody rides the bus in rush hour and moving to Venice makes it far worse there than the hell it already is. I drive from Beverly Hills north-south, to dog daycare, then to Sony. It is longer for the 1 mile from daycare to Sony than Beverly Hills to daycare. I made a mistake one day to go from Sony to LACMA.

GOVERNMENT FAILS

I’ve been email my council members (direct 10) about closing some streets. I’ve told my neighborhood council to think about closing some streets. I don’t get responses back and the neighborhood council just look at me weird. It’s going to take time but I think we can close a couple streets within a couple of years. What else can I do???

I prefer riding a bike daily and for everywhere I need screw driving the government and IRS takes enough and giving more to a vehicle gas insurance maintenance do the math the and cycle keeps u healthy so u don't have to be going to the doctor and making the doctors more rich and prescribeing meds that kill u

My driving anxiety (along w being in a scary central florida interstate multi car crash) were two key factors that drove me to working as a transit planner. Motor vehicle fatalities and collissions are an epidemic here in central Florida. Thank you for creating this important content.

Your channel is underrated!

Homeless people are the problem

This is really sad to watch - there is hope that action will be taken but it seems incredibly slow. In the UK where I live,many councils talk a good talk but relatively few take real action. I live in one of the few that do (Edinburgh) and while we now spend a fixed percentage of our roads budget on active travel,it is still not enough

As a European I love visiting the US, but every time I'm back home I'm so relieved to finally be able to walk or bike to places again.

I drove the 4 line at that time of day. I used to tell people you could get off and walk and they would beat me to Sepulveda.

you can literally walk faster than that mall trolley.

As an urban planner based out of car centric central Florida, THANK YOU for your content!!! I especcially love your medical, public health perspective on sprawl.

Fun videos. Thanks. Not that traffic is fun, but you know what I mean

+ parking is tough to get to sometimes when you consider navigating the parking structure and getting to where you gotta go

Oh man, all those places you showed on Santa Monica Blvd is so spot on. Especially the idiots that are parked in the bike lane when there's barely a lane to begin with! So crazy, stay safe out there. I've biked close to 7000 miles in LA and have been alright so far...hoping to keep the streak and always staying alert

Culver City is my place.

I give up bro I’m tired I want to move from this city where the Government has no concern for the average citizens and care more about the drug addicts than the tax payers

0:45, 'here, eat my fkg exhaust'.

I'm in utter awe at your restraint at not adding a stab sound and a Wilhelm scream when you threw the scissors... Bravo.

None of these SUV vehicles have any business to be allowed to even go that fast, theyre no sportcars, theyre not track cars, they are simple transportation machines, machines we can control. This issue has plagued LA for decades, and it only seemed to have gotten worse. As in the old West when firearms were ban in certain towns when entering. Vehicles should be banned or altered to only go a certain speed in each County or City. Most Cars should at the very least go 30 to 40mph.

Nimesh you're so based

11:35 - I've lived in LA for 40+ years. The disaster that is the Beverly Center used to be painted brown. We called it the Brown Turd. 13:01 - Every time I see a pre-1950 map of Los Angeles transit my heart breaks. Right here, I can see the line that runs just a half-block from where I live now. Every time I cross that street walking to the grocery store, I sense the tracks that are still buried underneath and imagine what it would be like to just hop on and go to the beach. Or to the mountains. They were all accessible from a just a half-block away. Sigh. 17:53 - That looks heavenly.

You hit the nail on the head. Cars and NIMBYs stay out of city planning. Thanks for the great essay on urban improvements.