Here is Chandler Boulevard in “Valley Village” a.k.a. North Hollywood. This is the bridge above the LA River just east of Coldwater Canyon. In a neighborhood of “exclusive” homes, many selling for at least $900,000. This is the same area where one sees many pedestrians. Loud protests a few years back greeted MTA plans to build a light rail here. “It would ruin the neighborhood…” Now the bus slowly meanders down the middle.
People who live in this area would never consider living in Van Nuys.
There is a reason why people worked to change their address from Van Nuys to Valley Glen.
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For some reason, few people see their neighborhoods in this way.
Of course, you are taking photos of places that are designed to be ignored, or experienced at speeds at which any problems or improvements are meaningless. Further, that wash, and the bridge over it for cars, are physical manifestations of an engineering philosophy concerned only with flow. There is no measure of beauty or artistic value in the construction of these things.
To catch this 20th century design ethic at its best/worst travel on foot to the junction of the 110 and 5 freeways to the east of downtown. It almost made me cry the first time I saw what my City had done with the wealth it made in the 20th century.
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Here in Van Nuys 