The City Council of Los Angeles approved a Mobility Plan 2035, which would reshape the streetscape of Los Angeles, "adding hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes, bus-only lanes and pedestrical safety features as part of an effort to nudge drivers out from behind the wheel" according to a New York Times article.
The following is an Opinion article written by Alex Brainard, a Los Angeles resident, stating his reasons why he disapproves of the Mobility Plan 2035:
Five Reasons why Los
Angeles’s Mobility Plan 2035 will not work:
1. It will cause even more traffic than we already
have. The Mobility Plan 2035 will double the number of intersections where
traffic crawls most slowly in Los Angeles according to city estimates. Some
of the streets which will lose lanes include Sunset Boulevard, Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard, Van Nuys Boulevard , Sherman Way, Venice
Boulevard, and Huntington Drive to name a few. Doubling the bad
intersections means it’s going to take twice as long to get anywhere.
