Thread started by mattspeed at 03.5.09 - 11:35 am

Today, over 20 people from various city departments, nonprofits and volunteer groups met to find a long-term solution to keeping the Orange Line bicycle in path in Van Nuys clear of transients and landscaping from growing onto the path. LAist first reported on the dire conditions of the bike path to which the Daily News picked up on.

The path is now much cleaner, but it's not over yet. The problem is unique to this part of Los Angeles, according to the city attorney's office, because you have a popular and highly used public space literally shared, but masked by shrubbery, with homeless encampments.

One runner said at the meeting that she's on the path twice a week and she sees the same trash, abandoned furniture and dead animals for weeks, sometimes months, at a time.

The LA Department of Transportation is responsible for the maintenance of the bike path portion that the lease from Metro. They will meet with the Van Nuys Neighborhood Council tonight to discuss developments and hear the community out.

Disclosure: Editor Zach Behrens serves on a volunteer LAPD committee that has been looking into this issue.

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I remember when this article first came out. I thought and still think its bullshit. The only problem with the orange line path is the kids who throw grapefruits at people around van nuys & kester, it hasn't happened to me but I've heard it happening to others and I've seen a bunch of those fruits on the ground.



Graham
03.5.09 - 11:39 am

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HAHAHA our government is so WEAK sauce they can't even keep a damn bike path clean. good thing there are volunteers that give their time for things like this....



Roadblock
03.5.09 - 11:48 am

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Agree 100% with Graham. Actually I agree 1000% with Graham. I'm fucking sick of oversanitization.



toweliesbong
03.5.09 - 11:48 am

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The funny thing is, the bike path's got nothing on other parts of L.A. but this is the priority! Rich people live here! We don't want to see icky homeless people!



danya
03.5.09 - 11:50 am

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Yeah, it's like the streets of Toluca Lake, it seems like they're repaved every other fucking year but you ride 1/2 mile away into North Hollywood and the streets are all fucked up.



toweliesbong
03.5.09 - 11:55 am

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That hobo's pad is all pimped out!! Look at the chains and shit he's got going on. Put that sucka on MTV!



User1
03.5.09 - 11:59 am

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"Yeah, it's like the streets of Toluca Lake, it seems like they're repaved every other fucking year but you ride 1/2 mile away into North Hollywood and the streets are all fucked up."

same with Burnbank and NH. you know EXACTLY where the two cities split by the condition of the pavement and the street lights.

the bike path between kester and sepulveda is garbarge on that orangeline.... exactly where the rich people DONT live.



Roadblock
03.5.09 - 11:59 am

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Yeah, but fucking Toluca Lake and North Hollywood are in the same fucking city, LA, that pisses me off more than the border between Burnbank and NoHo.





toweliesbong
03.5.09 - 12:04 pm

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"the bike path between kester and sepulveda is garbarge on that orangeline.... exactly where the rich people DONT live. "
Yup, and it's only a problem because the rich people on either side want to use the bike path.



danya
03.5.09 - 12:06 pm

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that's the valley for you. you can shit all over pacoima and abandon your tires on the side of the road in sun valley, as long as there arent any homeless people within eyeshot of Ventura Blvd.

every few years, these same dicks in Studio City try to secede from Los Angeles just so they can strangle their northern neighbors a little bit more.



tortuga_veloce
03.5.09 - 12:08 pm

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The orange line is an amazing bike path, the only quips about it is that there aren't cross walk buttons close enough to the sidewalk ramp thingy, and the transition to the sidewalk path past sepulevda. But even then that shit isn't a big deal



Graham
03.5.09 - 12:12 pm

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just face it. we have a crumbling government that is getting weaker and weaker by the day EXCEPT for our military budget which somehow get 50% of our tax money.... we dumped 1 trillion into destroying Iraq.... imagine dumping 1 trillion into this country's infrastructure and education instead.



Roadblock
03.5.09 - 12:12 pm

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When has Studio City tried to secede from LA?



Graham
03.5.09 - 12:13 pm

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Like 2 years ago, there was a petition to separate the Valley from L.A. as a separate city. They wanted to name it 'Camelot'.
Actually, it might've been longer than that. I think it was when I first left L.A. in 2003.... but the discussion still comes up every now and then. that group of people just hasn't been able to get 25% of residents to sign a petition since then.



danya
03.5.09 - 12:21 pm

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The thing that is better on the street vs a Ped/Bike only road way is that the force of the cars going by push everything to the side of the road. You think they could have a couple of street sweepers go up and down the path once a week.



sexy
03.5.09 - 7:39 pm

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i have two suggestions:

a. just give the homeless some brooms and tell them to keep it up or move out.

b. accept and love the valley for the dump that it is.



tortuga_veloce
03.5.09 - 7:45 pm

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