Los Angeles

The last two times the Olympics came to Los Angeles, the city launched major tree planting programs. L.A. planted tens of thousands of palm trees in the run up to 1932. An L.A. non-profit led the charge to plant one million trees ahead of the 1984 Games.

Planners are taking a different approach ahead of this Olympics, focusing on shade structures more broadly rather than specifically on planting trees... That means canopies, pop-up structures and infrastructure to create shade, with or without tree cover.

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But many of the specifics are still to come. That's also true of LA28, which has promised to create a "Heat Mitigation Plan." A spokesperson told LAist that it was expected to be finished by mid-2027.

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Still, L.A. has a long way to go. In L.A. County, urban areas have just 21% shade cover at noon on average, according to data from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation – less than the national average of 27%. And it's only getting hotter. By 2050, average temperatures in the county are expected to rise by almost four degrees.

3 new stations will open :

• Willshire/Labrea
• Willshire/Fairfax
• Willshire/La Cienaga

Sections 2 and 3 are forecast to begin service in 2027.

It's official! Section 1 of the D Line Extension is a historic moment bringing rail transit for the first time to this part of Wilshire Blvd.  Commemorate this Los Angeles transit milestone with this comfy and stylish Ride the D Unisex Heavyweight T-Shirt! The unisex garment-dyed heavyweight t-shirt is made of 100% rin

After numerous calls to resign from both his eponymous agency and his role as LA28 chair due to his association with charged and convicted child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Casey Wasserman finally announced he was making some changes. "I’m deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort," he wrote on Friday. "It’s not fair to you." So that's why he's going to step out of the public eye and donate his massive fortune to survivors of... oh, wait, no, sorry. He's going to sell off his company and cash out with the private equity firm that already holds a majority stake. And with all that spare time, he's going to devote his "full attention" to his volunteer role as the chair of the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, traveling the world representing the city of Los Angeles.

Everyone has a worst traffic choke point in L.A. That part of the commute where everything stops, time seems to stand still and you debate how many red-light cycles it will take to get through the intersection.

It’s places like this you worry about getting into that fender-bender or witness an act of road rage that will haunt your nightmares.

The Times decided to find out which are truly the worst crossing in the city, based on city data on traffic volumes and accidents.

James Moore, a traffic engineering expert from USC, reviewed The Times data and offered some analysis, both predictable and surprising.

Arriving officers found the victim lying in the middle of the street, an LAPD spokesperson told KTLA. The unidentified person was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sky5 was overhead around 7:30 a.m., where a white canopy had been placed over the body. A red Chevrolet SUV with front-end damage was stopped nearby.

When deputies arrived, they found the victim in the roadway suffering from significant injuries. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators said the driver involved fled immediately after the collision. Despite searching the surrounding area, deputies were unable to locate the vehicle.

The suspect vehicle is believed to be an unknown-colored sedan with major front-end damage, officials said.

Dude is still good enough for the olympics though.

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Every host city committee including Los Angeles is supposed to release a "human rights action plan" ahead of the games. Those plans should outline how the host city is planning to protect freedom of expression and handle security and workers' rights.

But those plans have not yet been finalized and made public, less than five month out. That has some critics ringing an alarm.

" It's a very poor report card on turning in your homework for Los Angeles and all other host cities," said Minky Worden with Human Rights Watch.

A federal judge this week ruled against the city of Los Angeles in a long-running lawsuit over the city’s practice of destroying unhoused people’s property during encampment sweeps.

In a rare default judgment, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer made a finding in favor of the plaintiffs — ending the case — because the city destroyed, fabricated or altered documents relevant to the case.

The judge found the city had acted "willfully and in bad faith" to deprive the plaintiffs of the information they requested repeatedly, and that the city's explanation for its misconduct was "not credible," according to court documents.

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Wasserman has faced growing scrutiny in recent weeks after a trove of Justice Department documents included a series of flirty emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, from 2003.

The emails prompted five Los Angeles City Council members, two county supervisors and the city controller to call for Wasserman to step aside. Then, celebrities started dropping Wasserman's talent agency, including Chappell Roan and soccer star Abby Wambach.

Traffic collisions in the city of Los Angeles killed 290 people last year, and more than 150 fatal collisions involved pedestrians, according to Los Angeles Police Department data. It's also 60 more people than died by homicide last year.

That means the city is far from the goal it set more than a decade ago of reaching zero such deaths by 2025.

While LA crumbles, they want to raise taxes for the nationalist grift of the olympics...

Raising taxes for this nationalist grift while the city is completely unaffordable, car dependent, healthcare bankrupt, gestapo overrun, wasserman and similar pedos, etc.

The olympics doesn't give a crap about real issues. They just want to leech LA dry.

“Since we don't have access to the [40mm launcher], the FN303 is an alternative option,” LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said. “[And] we're looking at other options that are available as well on the field.”

The resolution by Leandra Blades, a retired L.A. county law enforcement officer, advocates for the district to cooperate with and affirm "its support for local law enforcement officers and federal immigration officers."

I'm not really sure what else to add past this point. Outside of, again, there needs to be a change here. And broadly, across our government, across our society, there needs to be widespread accountability for all of this.

Also, I'm growing increasingly disgusted with much of the mainstream media, at least the parts of it that have been so incredibly silent on a lot of these files dropping. I understand maybe it's a lot of emails, it's a lot of things to cover, it's a lot of information. But again, the lack of accountability and coverage here is shocking.

Last Saturday around 6pm, Regan Cole-Graham, a mother of two and pregnant with her third, was out on a bike ride with her husband and two young boys. A driver hit her from behind and killed her, and her unborn baby died at the hospital despite an emergency c-section. This wasn’t an accident. In 2017, L.A. installed bike lanes on Pershing Drive, exactly where she was hit, and removed them after backlash by the neighborhood council, and a lawsuit by Keep LA Moving.

If the bike lanes the city had installed in 2017 had remained in place, Regan likely would be alive today.

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This is a black or white issue. Anyone running for Mayor or city council that doesn’t talk about this issue and come with political will to redesign our streets is part of the problem. I plan on devoting every fiber of my being to defeating NIMBYism and political cowards. Enough is enough.