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"Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an
entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less. Getting the city of Los
Angeles to paint a crosswalk, on the other hand, might take 14 years and the
death of a nine-year-old boy.
Across L.A., neighbors are banding together to paint crosswalks to protest the
city’s failure to protect people outside of cars.
Jonathan Hale, a UCLA law student who goes by “Jonny,” spent four Saturday
mornings painting crosswalks with neighbors at Stoner Park this summer,
covering each corner of the park. After the city removed them, he went to the
press and vowed to repaint them.
“I was like, ‘Next Saturday, we’ll be out there, and you’ll have to deal with
it. It’ll be a spectacle. And, like, everybody kind of hates you right now.”
The city painted official crosswalks a week later."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
