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Group X, Altarpieces, Nos. 1

Esther Rose - Wanton Way of Loving

Boulevard Montmartre - Night by Camille Pissarro / La Vie en Rose - Louis Armstrong

Tracey Chapman - Fast Car

Elvis - If I Can Dream

Huangguoshu Waterfall

Pang Xunqin - 1940

Owl on a Pine Branch (1833)

Utagawa Hiroshige

Boston Cremes (1962) - Wayne Thiebaud

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Metro is making plans to close an eight-mile gap in the L.A. River bike/walk path. The project is largely funded, but don't expect construction any time soon.

Metro's 2016 Measure M sales tax expenditure plan funds for two long stretches of L.A. River path: in central Los Angeles and in the San Fernando Valley. Additional Valley path is expected to be under construction soon.

This post concerns the central city path, which will extend from the existing Glendale Narrows bikeway in Cypress Park/Elysian Valley through Downtown L.A. and Boyle Heights, to connect to the South County River Trail in the cities of Vernon and Maywood.

Measure M programmed $365 million for the river path, scheduled for a 2023 groundbreaking and a 2025-27 opening. The project had been on the initial Metro Olympics project list, but was quietly removed when it became clear that construction would not be completed ahead of 2028.

Metro held river path project input meetings in 2019. That year the Metro board approved proceeding with environmental studies. Then nothing happened.

In a project update meeting yesterday (a second similar meeting will be held tomorrow - Thursday evening), Metro project staff now anticipate some portion of the path might be open in "at least five years." Or maybe not.

As SBLA noted earlier, the delays are mainly caused by the lack of a public agency that will be responsible for path operations and maintenance.

When Metro expands freeways, the state (Caltrans) maintains them. When Metro expands rail or bus facilities, Metro maintains them. When Metro expands bicycle and pedestrian transportation... it depends.

Metro is maintaining the new Rail-to-Rail bike/walk path, which Metro built on a Metro-owned right-of-way.

But Metro representatives state that Metro will not maintain the L.A. River path because Metro doesn't own the right-of-way it will be built on.

Yesterday, Metro reps stated that they had "started [a] conversation with the leadership level of at least the County of L.A." as a possible maintenance partner. L.A. County, through its Flood Control District (responsible for the concrete structures encasing local rivers and creeks), does maintain several waterway paths. These include the downstream L.A. River paths: the South County Bike Trail and the Lario Bike Trail (along the Rio Hondo and the lower L.A. River).

Upstream, L.A. River path segments (in northeast L.A. and the San Fernando Valley) are located in L.A. City, and maintained (somewhat imperfectly) by the city.

Based on past and current maintenance practices, one would expect the city to maintain its part (~5 miles in DTLA) of the Metro river path project, with the county responsible for its part (~3 miles in Vernon).

Yesterday Metro staff suggested that project maintenance could go to a new governmental agency not yet formed: a Joint Powers Authority spanning the full ~51 mile L.A. River. The idea of a single river authority has been proposed since the early 1990s, and is no closer to happening today than it was then. Waiting to put any cart behind that non-existent horse would be a recipe for years of delay.

And speaking of delays, the wait for a maintenance agency has delayed the central river path project for a half-dozen years, during which the construction costs have risen.

This means that Metro's ~$430 million (the above-mentioned Measure M funding adjusted for inflation) is no longer enough to build the entire project, now expected to cost around ~$1 billion.

It was never a cheap project to thread a path along a river (prone to rapid water level rise), active freight/passenger rail, freeways, bridges, electrical towers, and other infrastructure - but it appears that Metro's design team may have overshot an optimal affordable design. The funding picture worsened as the project scope expanded from a mostly less-expensive at-grade path, to one that features more costly structures and bridges.

Metro anticipates the current funding shortfall means the project will need to be broken up into several phases. Phasing an 8-mile long multi-city path project makes a lot of sense. It probably should have happened around 2019.

Metro anticipates the project's draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) will be released this fall. That will be followed by the Metro board selecting the final project design (the Locally Preferred Alternative - LPA) soon thereafter.

Despite so many prior delays, it might be premature to finalize an EIR before finalizing maintenance arrangements.

It is unclear how this project gets built any time soon. For years, Metro staff have been unsuccessful in arranging for someone else to pay for facility maintenance in perpetuity. It will likely take leadership from L.A. City and L.A. County elected officials (all facing their own budget issues) to get this project out of the limbo it has been trapped in for the last half-decade.

and on the 9th day, god looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a ~~care~~taker"

God said, "I need somebody willing to imagine themselves getting up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board" so god made an American

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night watching snuff videos, watching people die, then dry his eyes and say, 'What else is on?." So god made an American

God had to have somebody willing to ride the suburb at double speed to get the 'heck' inside ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-park and briefly imagine interacting with people during the first BBQ grill smoke from a neighbor’s place, so god made an American

"war is trying to kill a man you don't even know well enough to hate"

America is trying to kill everyone you meet because you know one person too well

America is having a long commute to a job you hate

America is hating traffic so much you demand more lanes for cars on the road

America is never having to face the indignity of walking

America is never having to face the indignity of seeing a person you don't know

America is never having to face the indignity of being of equal status with another person

America is knowing you are blessed by god because others are lower than you

America is knowing you are blessed by god because others are higher than you

America is knowing you are blessed by god because you deserve it

America is knowing you are blessed by god because others don't deserve it

America is fantasizing about how all would come together during a disaster

America is fantasizing about how easily we will all win the war

America is about how desperately everything needs to change

America is about hating everyone and everything that's ever tried to bring change

America is about reasonable, common sense, bi partisan solutions

America is about looking at polling over people burning down a police station

America is about how funny it is Bill Clinton got a blowjob

America is about how Thomas Jefferson was anti slavery

America is about John Brown dying

America is about Jefferson Davis living

America is about how won we world war II

America is about how we will all win the next world war II

America is about how we are all winners

America is about how any day now we're going to make it big

America is about how any day now it's all going to pay off

America is about how any day now it's all going to pay off

America is about how any day now it's all going to pay off

America is about how any day now it's all going to pay off

LIKE GETTING KISSED BY SOMEONE YOU REALLY FUCKING LIKE

Lets begin with a chart that's self explanatory. The per capita average length of the chinese penis is now on par with the EU. The typical Chinese citizen now cums as much per load as the typical western European Union citizen. And its growing. China now produces over 70% of the worlds penis pumps, and they do it faster and cheaper than anywhere else in the world. There are only 2 factories producing high quality modern lithium powered penis pumps in the EU, and zero in the United States. China has over 30, and all the lithium in those 2 EU factories comes from China.