Bicyclists and Car Drivers: Cease Fire

Pondering a More Bike-Friendly (Without Being Car-Unfriendly) Los Angeles Future

It’s time for a truce in the battle between L.A.’s bicyclists and automobile drivers, said a panel of transportation thinkers at a Zócalo Public Square/Grand Park event. Instead, it’s time for L.A. to secure funding, build new infrastructure, and remake its culture to include more modes of transit.

Noting the panel’s title, “Will the Bicycle Kill the Car?”, panelist Geoff Wardle, director of advanced mobility research at Art Center College of Design, told a large early-evening audience at Grand Park (which included several people in bike wear), “We have to get …

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom

A Man With Fewer Suit Choices Than Barack Obama

When he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 2003, Gavin Newsom, who was 36, was the youngest mayor the city had had in a century. By that time, he …

Grand Park Designer Tony Paradowski

An Aesthete With An Ugly Sofa

Landscape architect Tony Paradowski of Rios Clementi Hale Studios was one of the lead designers of downtown’s Grand Park. Before participating in a panel on whether downtown L.A. will ever …

Downtown Reborn?

Yes, We’ve Been Burned Before, But I Have Grand Hopes For Our New Park

In 2008, after years of living in different parts of Los Angeles, I moved downtown. I work as an attorney for the public defender in the downtown courthouse and had …