Los Angeles

Quick snapshot of LA vegetarian picks shows Crossroads Kitchen at 13.5%, Little Pine 10.8%, then a cluster with Gracias Madre, Shojin, Real Food Daily at 8.1.

Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/1787

For locals in 2025, which place truly feels like the top pick right now, and what pushes it over the edge day to day?

Snapshot shows République at #1 (15%), then Providence/Bestia/Guelaguetza/Spago/Bavel at 10, with a long tail of favorites.

Reference only: https://rankiwiki.com/archives/2720

If you had a single reservation this month, which would you choose and why (menu, value, neighborhood, vibe)?

Revised plan for a cut-and-cover phases 2&3 of LA Metro’s K Line Northern Extension

LA Metro said the bus operator wasn’t authorized to give an interview. The driver said he was simply exercising his right to free speech by giving an interview on his day off.

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Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a 52-year-old father from Guatemala, was fatally struck by an SUV on the 210 Freeway Thursday morning while fleeing an ICE raid at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, where agents detained eight immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.

In the link you can see the different proposed alternatives for what metro is thinking of implementing to get a connection from the San Fernando Valley and the Westide.

My understanding is that there is only a bus line that connects the two, so the current alternative method of travel to a bus is taking the very congested 405 fwy.

An additional link with more detailed information: https://us.planengage.com/sepulvedacorridor/page/execsum

What will it take for Los Angeles to have a sense of urgency in actually making our streets safer? We currently spend more on legal settlements to those hurt and killed on our streets than we do on Vision Zero, the city’s half-baked effort to reduce traffic deaths. Since Los Angeles declared itself a Vision Zero City in 2015, with the ultimate aim of having no one killed in car crashes on city streets by 2025, deaths and injuries have only gotten worse. In the last few years we’ve had at least three children hit and killed while walking to school. And yet the city’s leaders — facing a budget crisis, much of it of their own making — perpetually underfund LADOT and street safety in general.

If a rash of falling elevators killed someone in L.A. every two days and injured someone every five hours, we’d immediately stop using them as the city stepped in to investigate and solve the problem. Yet we seem to just accept the deadly status quo of traffic fatalities as the cost of doing business while walking L.A.’s streets.

We don’t have to live this way. There are cities that have actually achieved Vision Zero, such as Hoboken, N.J., which has now tallied eight consecutive years without a traffic-related death thanks to significant updates at curbs, crosswalks and intersections.

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