{"id":480474,"date":"2025-12-30T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:09:10","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-think-the-potholes-in-l-a-havent-gotten-worse-try-riding-a-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480474\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Think the potholes in L.A. haven\u2019t gotten worse? Try riding a bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Dec. 30, 2025 8 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: I\u2019m glad someone finally said it. Los Angeles hasn\u2019t just surrendered to potholes; we\u2019ve apparently decided to coexist with them (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2025-12-29\/los-angeles-potholes-street-repaving-transportation-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cYou\u2019re not imagining it. L.A. has surrendered to the potholes,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 29).<\/p>\n<p>Potholes are annoying in a car, but for those of us who ride bikes, they can cause serious, immediate injury. I seek out quieter, beautiful neighborhoods for cycling, and Hancock Park used to be my favorite route. Now the streets are uneven and cracked, and deteriorate further after every rainstorm. They\u2019re a chiropractor\u2019s dream and a cyclist\u2019s obstacle course.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone doubts how quickly conditions are worsening, I recommend getting on a bike \u2014 assuming you enjoy being rattled like loose change in a coffee can. The difference just one year makes is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, while riding in Hancock Park, I spoke with a man walking with his young daughter. He said they\u2019d nearly been injured after tripping over a cracked sidewalk. He also mentioned that the mayoral residence is located in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to invite Mayor Karen Bass to join me on a bike ride through Hancock Park. It\u2019s the fastest way to understand just how broken our streets and sidewalks have become.<\/p>\n<p>Denise McCanles, West Hollywood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 30, 2025 8 AM PT To the editor: I\u2019m glad someone finally said it. Los Angeles hasn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[217719,80817,1582,276,41244,121369,21273,2600,7129,217718,6276,2961,19945,224,2444,5337,200705,217717,119740,625],"class_list":{"0":"post-480474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-beautiful-neighborhood","9":"tag-bike","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chiropractor","13":"tag-cyclist","14":"tag-difference","15":"tag-dream","16":"tag-editor","17":"tag-hancock-park","18":"tag-l-a","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-letter","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-obstacle-course","25":"tag-pothole","26":"tag-sidewalk","27":"tag-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809627141325495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}