Transportation is a central topic of life in Los Angeles, with urgent repercussions for the world at large. We seek city leaders who prioritize exceptional and affordable public transportation, street safety, and adequate active transportation infrastructure while centering issues related to affordable transit-oriented housing development and dealing with the city’s crisis of hit and runs. Before voting for our next L.A. mayor, we needed to know where the candidates stand on the essential issue of transportation equity. In a collaboration with CicLAvia, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Climate Resolve, Streets For All, Los Angeles Walks, Act-LA, POWER, IKAR, Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement, Pacoima Beautiful, and MoveLA, L.A. TACO presents a candid questionnaire given to all of L.A.’s mayoral candidates, with their answers in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. All responses were provided by the candidates via email.
Getting Around in L.A.
How often do you walk, bike, ride transit, or otherwise get to your destinations without driving in L.A.? How would you judge the condition and importance of each of those transportation modes? How important is it for the next L.A. Mayor to experience all available transportation modes?
As a bicyclist, I admittedly prefer biking along the beach rather than city streets because we have not created the infrastructure to make biking convenient and safe. Crippling traffic, broken or non-existent sidewalks, and an increasingly unreliable public transportation system undermine our ability to get around safely, comfortably and conveniently.