Remember those 100 worst intersections Jim Hahn's been making safer? A year after proclaiming many of them fixed, at least one appears to be untouched:
Bob Hertzberg points out in the Hertz-blog that there is no left-turn lane from Beaudry onto Temple - an improvement promised in Phase 1 two years ago, and proclaimed completed at Hahn's city web site.
Hertzberg then invites visitors to his blog to post their own nominations for the city's worst intersections, and promises to hold a vote on "the worst of the worst."
If you want to check more of Hahn's promises against your own knowledge of Los Angeles today, take a trip back in time to his inauguration when he said a lot of things that never came true. He should be credited with fighting off Valley secession and bringing a new measure of professionalism to the LAPD with the appointment of Chief William Bratton.
But do any of the rest of these 2001 promises hold water?
Hahn has promised to implement a compressed work schedule for police officers within 90 days, a proposal that drew controversy during the election and that is opposed by some council members and others.
The new mayor also pledged to:
* Increase the number of after-school programs available to Los Angeles students.
* Work with the school district to build new campuses.
* Tackle gridlock and build a better public transportation system.
* Reform the business tax code and lure new firms to the city.
* Create a $100-million housing trust fund.
* Back the newly forming neighborhood councils, created by the enactment of Los Angeles' new city charter.
Also amusing is the little hat-tip Hahn gives his then-and-now archenemy, Antonio Villaraigosa, and warm words from the African-American community, who would later excoriate him for canning LAPD Chief Bernard Parks, now gunning for his job.
