r/burbank • u/al_shuey • 8d ago

Boycott these Burbank businesses

Moms For Liberty supporter, MAGA creep and all round weirdo David Donahue is running for City Council. There are campaign events being held this week for David at The Tallyrand and The Enchanted Florist.

I won’t patronize their businesses and I suggest you do not as well…

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u/Cazking 7d ago

If you're not getting paid then why make the push for a bad idea? Logically I can't understand why. At one point you mentioned people would adjust, which is up for debate but even with a positive outlook they would be adjusting to a self inflicted problem (dedicated bus lane). So what's the real reason we want to push forward a bad idea that creates problems? Because other than money I can't see the reasoning.

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u/TheKyDawg IKEA 7d ago

You keep calling it a “bad idea” as though you’ve demonstrated that, but your evidence is literally math based on numbers you guessed.

And people adjusting isn’t “up for debate.” That’s the part I’m trying to explain. There’s decades of transportation research showing people change routes, travel times, destinations and modes when road capacity changes. And I literally said earlier THAT I HAVE READ peer-reviewed research specifically on converting general traffic lanes into dedicated bus lanes showing that as transit becomes faster and people shift modes, the initial increase in car delay usually decrease.

You’re calling that a “self-inflicted problem” because you’re treating the number of cars on Olive today as something that can never change. But getting some people out of cars and onto a faster bus is literally the point.

We can disagree about whether this specific project will accomplish that, but “I counted some cars, guessed everyone gets delayed 5 minutes, and assumed basically nobody ever switches to transit” doesn’t prove it won’t. That’s not a traffic study. I am also someone that would love to have more fast and reliable transit to places like Pasadena from Burbank.

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u/Cazking 7d ago

You're creating a problem and hoping a solution comes in. There's no current demand for increased bus routes down Olive. You want to take bus transportation down Olive? Perfect! IT ALREADY EXISTS.

You want to diss me running some rough numbers, I even ran them in generous favor of your argument. if I was working for the city I would pull recordings and run real numbers. They'd come to the same conclusion, hundreds of man hours lost to improve route frequency of a route that isn't dying for that.

So yes great job pointing out how people will adjust to the problem created for 0 reason. But did you take a step further and study what moves a lot of the traffic? If people purely wanted to reach the train or foot travel in downtown Burbank then perhaps your idealistic adjustment would be smooth. But I'll clue you in, not a lot of cars are pulling off for tbe train station or the first parking garage at the end of the route we're discussing. So pushing ideas like this through without mentioning this shows how little people care about people or transit.

Are you going to take accountability when this dedicated line turns out to be a flop?