Well, to clarify for you, Citywatch, the problem with the comments you tend to make have, of course, nothing to do at all with the state of the city or the problems that it faces or the solutions that are needed to move it in the direction that many think it needs to move in.
My response to you is singularly in the realm of "can we please stop complaining about the exact same problem in every post week after week no matter how much it may have been discussed.”
Your single mindedness on the issue leads me to believe that you are simply being antagonistic with no real reason or resolve. Just the need to be responded to seems to be your motive, as even the most hostile forumers towards LA (we know who they are) don’t harp on a topic for the better part of a month. It makes the forum less interesting and quite frankly feel like we are standing next to the man on the street corner waving the "Repent" sign daily...never really making a point, just being disruptive for the sheer need of it.
As far as the ENDLESS comparisons we seem to never escape on here...lets think about this...
LA has always gone its own way. It’s been making huge strides in the last 20 years, though it has MUCH left to fix. But I know…and this is proven everyday in here, that LA could literally tear itself down to the infrastructure, send all 4 million residents to the school of “Urban Living”…and rebuild it as a street for street replica of NY or Tokyo, and many people in here and nationwide would STILL complain…why?...because its LA…it’s the rule.
It would never be enough, it could never change enough for some people. I’m willing to bet, if any of the recent proposals here in DTLA were proposed in lets say…Boston…all the critics in here would herald them as “wonderful examples of modern urbanism” for that city. But, because they are here…they are maligned. It’s a trained mentality, very hive like in its inflexibility, that has been decades in the making.
It’s almost knee jerk...and it’s frankly tiresome. It’s not enough that we all agree that there are problems. It’s as if, unless we agree to HATE the city as much as the complainers do, we are somehow deluded and "boosters". I find it amusing that people that have such a distaste for something spend so much time talking about it, debating it, and getting upset over it.
I can’t stand American Idol…so does that mean I have to spend time watching it everyday to prove to myself how much I dislike it?
Downtown Los Angeles is finding its way, and its years from being its most ideal self, but I’m willing to watch, read, and participate in its growth because I want to see it get better, not to prove how right I was for it not being there yet.
Now if you will excuse me, I’ll be looking for news on Wilshire Grand, The Broad, Liebskind’s tower proposal, the Farmer’s Field proposal, the regional connector, the Broadway Revitalization, The Grand, the second hotel at LA Live, a possible development on the former Jardin parcel, the 7th&Fig remodel… etc…etc…you know…actual developments in DTLA…
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