Pedestrians in Los Angeles



Have you ever been to America? Oops! Sorry, "America" It's NOT a country but a continent with many countries speaking different languages...

I mean: Have you ever been to the United States of America? If you have you will have probably seen lots of cars everywhere, not much trains, not much public transport in general and usually a very complicated net of buses to go anywhere but the place you really want to go...

This situation in places like Los Angeles is by far much more accentuated.

L.A is a city made for cars, NOT for bicycles and specially NOT for pedestrians...If you are comming to Los Angeles to visit and you have no driver license or you just don't have a car or some friend who can drive you to places, be ready to spend lots of time taking several buses to just get a few miles away from where you live!

If you feel you want to walk, distances are huge of course, but even if you are not going too far, be ready to wait about 5 minuttes or more in every crossing and before you haven't barely reach half of the street the traffic light will start poping with a red hand signal and pushing you to hurry up...

So by be ready my friend for sometimes not having at your disposal any sidewalk where to freely moove (Therefore you have to invade the road where the cars pass by).

The feeling I have is that pedestrians in L.A (And I don't think I'm exagerating too much) are almost treated like criminals in the worst of the cases, and in the best one, as some anoying mosquito that gets into the way of the poweful hangry cars...

Everyone seems to be in a competition to see who has the biggest car...

I know I am giving here the point of view of a european, and perhaps I should live here for a while to understand better all this situation...

I've been told as well that Los Angeles is a huge metropolis of over 130 miles long, a very new city built basicly in the 20th century and basicly made it thinking in the cars and the future...In few words, a place where pedestrians have no reason to be...

And now I wander: Could you imagine ALL of the 1.350 millions chinese and the 1.100 million indians driving each one of them with their own big cars? Do they have or not the right to own It like most people do in the States?

We ALL have to start seriously taking important decissions to prevent global warming or otherwise what the Ige Age couldn't do will be finally achieved by the polution:

The extintion of human life.

The Traffic Circle (Old Town in Orange-California)

Hi there! I just arrived yesterday to Orange county California, I flied from Barcelover to Munich and from there to Los Angeles...about 17 hours in total travelin

The plane passed by Iceland and then Greenland and Canada! Greenland has some amazing landscape...Not a place really where one would want to live for a long time I guess.

I think I have discovered a good way to scape from "jetlag" and it consist in not getting a wink the night before leaving and stay all night awaken and making the luggage to the very last minutte, this way you are so tired that you sleep easier on the plane and by the time you reach to destination you are not that tired...Besides, this is a good trick too for those who are afraid to travel by airplane...You are so tired that you almost give a damn about the plane falling.

Today morning after breakfast and lunch I went to the old part of Orange, here known as "The Circle"...People here calls it the "old part" but is actually only 100 hundred years old which for americans could be the equivalent to what europens consider middle ages times!

The Circle to me It's like the Mecca of antiques...Specially american antiques, there's plenty of shops where they sell all kinds of antiques, and there's a few good bars and restaurants where to eat some fine food! People is quite friendly and seem interested to know where I "Clunynger-z" come from...Poor fellows... From Japan! Where else if not. Kon ni chi va? Arigato, tori-teriyaki.

I met a guy today at a cool art gallery where they had paintings, glass and wood, and the groove thing about it was that he went in the 2000 year (The same year I was living there) to Inishturk island in Ireland!

Inishturk island for those who don't know (that means the vast majority) is a really small island in the west coast of Ireland, just between two more islands called "Inishboffin"and "Clare island" populated by only 75 people! (You can't get mad to anyone in a place like this). When I got there I remember there was nobody anywhere...People seemed to have been evaporeted! A ghost island!

After walking for a while, I suddenly found severel people playing football (socker) and many more watching the game...So after counting them all I realized that almost the whole island was there! Can you believe? When the game was over they all went to the only pub in the island and I went with them too...The pub was so fool that anybody else could hardly get in!

I remember a huge lobster in a frame on the wall, like a trophy...It was definitively the biggest one I've ever seen...I hearded on the ferry in it's way to the island that some other small island near there use to be owned by John Lennon, and now by Yoko Ono...

Someone told me too that Inishturk is the less turistical island of the three.

So that's it, if you guys ever want to be somewhere special... go to Inishturk! But don't tell anybody else you bastards.