The bus is really infrequent and LA gets a lot of the-sun-is-trying-to-kill-you days. The lack of benches is an attack on the homeless. This thing yielding practically no shade is an attack on bus riders. It’s not so much that they made things worse – I’ve stood at stops there with no shade whatsoever. That these things were just recently installed makes installing something actually good a non-starter for years, if not decades, and that’s the problem. It’s sort of a flip side to the good-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-perfect cliche. I don’t oppose this because it’s good and I want perfect – I oppose it because it’s crap and I want at least good, but we’re locked into crap for now. See also: VTA light rail.
Maybe the real issue isnt the bus stop, its the lack of regard and help in general for homeless people? I mean, how many of those objecting donate to homeless charity (I do twice a year if I can afford it), or help at shelters? Vote for politicians with a proven record of helping addiction, mental illness issues and poverty issues? I mean its all good to say “there are no seats” but people shouldnt be having to fcuking sleep on a bus shelter in the first place - they need proper bloody help.
You can’t really do anything to improve local politics in LA because it’s utterly dominated by real estate interest groups, and also because the cops in LA need to get put in a denazification camp. Like the entire institution of policing is bad, but LA cops are genuinely insane.
The bus is really infrequent and LA gets a lot of the-sun-is-trying-to-kill-you days. The lack of benches is an attack on the homeless. This thing yielding practically no shade is an attack on bus riders. It’s not so much that they made things worse – I’ve stood at stops there with no shade whatsoever. That these things were just recently installed makes installing something actually good a non-starter for years, if not decades, and that’s the problem. It’s sort of a flip side to the good-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-perfect cliche. I don’t oppose this because it’s good and I want perfect – I oppose it because it’s crap and I want at least good, but we’re locked into crap for now. See also: VTA light rail.
Maybe the real issue isnt the bus stop, its the lack of regard and help in general for homeless people? I mean, how many of those objecting donate to homeless charity (I do twice a year if I can afford it), or help at shelters? Vote for politicians with a proven record of helping addiction, mental illness issues and poverty issues? I mean its all good to say “there are no seats” but people shouldnt be having to fcuking sleep on a bus shelter in the first place - they need proper bloody help.
You can’t really do anything to improve local politics in LA because it’s utterly dominated by real estate interest groups, and also because the cops in LA need to get put in a denazification camp. Like the entire institution of policing is bad, but LA cops are genuinely insane.