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In early February, the L.A. City Department of Transportation (LADOT) quietly released its 2021-2023 Strategic Plan Update. It’s a glossy document full of high-production-value photos and high-minded goals. But the plan sets frustratingly weak commitments to improving L.A.’s deadly streets.
The plan is emblematic of LADOT’s decline under Mayor Eric Garcetti and LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds. Garcetti fancies himself a climate champion. Reynolds was recruited to LADOT as an advocate for pedestrians and safe streets. But this new Strategic Plan sets the sights set so low it might was well be a white flag of surrender to the forces of motordom.
Nury Martinez, Unwilling to Lead, Declares More Recess Details
THE GUSS REPORT-LA City Council President
Nury Martinez just did what she does best: send the nation s highest-salaried local lawmakers to another unscheduled, paid recess despite multiple ongoing deadly crises.
Who didn t see that coming?
On March 2, 2020, exactly one year ago, this column reported on colorful criticism by City Hall s tenacious gadfly set leveling Martinez for embracing only the ceremonial part of her ascent to the City Council presidency, but not the nuts and bolts of leadership: If you don t regularly follow LA s zany political gadflies, you re missing quite a show and sometimes astute, if cringe-worthy, observations.
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