Downtown 101 gets diagonal crosswalks

Carlsbad has had these for a few years and they seem to work well.

Blakespear claims another victim

Just a day after yesterday's trip to the hospital.

Facebook:

My boyfriend was walking with a friend along the 101 this morning... Just came home and told me he saw an accident. A cyclist and a pedestrian with a surfboard in the "new bike lane". Cyclist ON the ground... ambulance arrives. He is a pedestrian and also bikes with me some... so he sees both sides of the problem. That's just it here... it is bad for ALL concerned.

It's so blatantly not working. Not sure what it is going to take.

Where are the other four council members on Blakespear's carnage? Will any of them speak out against this insanity before someone gets killed?

Yet another serious injury from Blakespear's bike obstacles

Facebook:

I am sharing because this morning my husband suffered a double fracture to his collarbone when he struck the ballustrades heading south on the 101 on his commute to work. His helmet was massively dented as he took an impact on the 4th ballustrade (flew though the air that far) and he has major road rash and a busted thumb and sprained wrist. We are grateful it wasnt worse.

That makes ten known crashes according to those keeping track... and here come the lawsuits.

Blakespear cuts off pedestrian access to bus stop

Pretty sure this isn't legal.

5/20/20 City Council meeting open thread

Video comments now allowed, but not live and must be submitted by 3pm, so still of dubious legality as there’s no opportunity for public interaction with council.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

Oggi's homeless camp to be cleaned up Friday

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Blakespear continues to lock public out of participation in council meetings

Two weeks ago, a constitutional attorney opined that preventing the public from speaking at meetings by video or phone was illegal.

Since then, LA County stopped this practice and allowed public participation, following local governments around the country.

Nevertheless, she persisted.