Marines mobilized in response to LA protests

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by hparadiz on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:59PM (#44241932)

I'm out walking around LA all the time. Santa Monica alone is a beach town with an amazing ocean front. You don't need a car at all. I'm seriously sitting here doing the Obama shrug meme.

It's stupid that I even have to point out a few things. Like that I was born in Europe, have been to Germany and Japan, and lived near NYC for a time so I probably know better than some European about my own city.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by crubier on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:32PM (#44242659)

Santa Monica *beachfront* is decently walkable. Santa Monica as a whole is not walkable. All the other examples (Downtown?) are also completely not walkable.

At least my definition of walkable does not mean "you can technically walk there" it means "if you live here you will not want nor need to use your car"

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by hparadiz on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:00PM (#44242849)

There's three new stations in downtown which extended the blue and yellow line.

Santa Monica and downtown are now directly linked with the yellow line.

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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by crubier on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:28AM (#44245750)

Having public transport is 5% of what makes a place walkable

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