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title: Yes, there are way more speed cameras now
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 Speed cameras go up in SoCal cities. Plus, an interview with a man accused of noncitizen voting.  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

| Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. In this newsletter: Feature: LA’s new speed cameras What one man told KCRW after he was arrested for noncitizen voting Eating at more than 8,000 Chinese restaurants How do you make hair scary? Cash infusion for local newsrooms ICE activity in Long Beach Yes, there are way more speed cameras now by Steve Chiotakis If you’re aware that someone or something is watching you, how does that make you feel? Does it affect your behavior? Are you especially careful about what you do while you’re being watched? In the case of road safety, state and local leaders are hoping you answer yes. Lenses recording human activity have been around for nearly two centuries. From the old camera obscura and daguerreotype that chronicled everything from pastoral French scenes and the American Civil War to the portable pocket pack that you whip out to snap a selfie at a (much happier) Dodger game. None of those ‘pictures’ came for your pocketbook, but new speed cameras going up all over Southern California could put a dent in it if they snap a shot of you cruising down the boulevard a little too fast. Back in 2023, the California Legislature approved Assembly Bill 645, which authorized cities and transportation agencies to install the cameras along stretches of their most dangerous roads. Those cities include Los Angeles, Glendale, Long Beach, and Malibu. Many of them, like in the biggest city on the list — LA — are already putting them up. In Malibu, for decades advocates have been screaming for speed cameras and other road safety measures to be implemented along Pacific Coast Highway. Film director Michel Shane is one of those advocates. In 2010, a suicidal speeding driver on PCH struck and killed his daughter, Emily. Heartbroken and determined, he attended Malibu City Council meetings, begged for action at Caltrans, and directed and executive produced a documentary called 21 Miles in Malibu, in memory of his daughter and for the safety of other children along the open coastal road. With Assembly Bill 645, some California senators saw an opportunity to pass another piece of legislation — Senate Bill 1297 — to target the speeding problem along PCH. It passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed that one as well. So, do speed cameras make roads safer? Do they work in reducing traffic deaths? The answer is yes. A study on a stretch of road with speed cameras in Barcelona, Spain, found that between 2001 and 2003, cameras prevented more than 300 collisions and 500 injuries and deaths. But the study was based on an urban road, with lower speed limits. Conclusions on other types of roads were less definitive, but did show reductions in crashes and injuries. Today on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, transportation officials hope you’ll see one of the new cameras near Kingsley Elementary School and ease off the accelerator. And they hope you’ll remember that action every time you pass it by. If doing the right thing isn’t incentive enough to slow down, if you get a warning or ticket in the mail at $50, $100, or even $200 a pop, then will you change your speed behavior? That camera is watching. In The Neighborhood On Monday, 28 non-citizens in California were charged with fraudulently voting or registering to vote; four were brought to court in downtown LA. After they were released, KCRW’s Eli Chavez knocked on their doors. Here’s what one 72-year-old from Commerce told him. LA attorney David Chan has a tasty hobby… or maybe obsession: over the past 14 years, he has eaten at more than 8,000 Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley. He recently talked to KCRW’s Good Food host Evan Kleiman about why he does it. How do you make hair scary? KCRW reporter Daniella Lake met a Hollywood hair and makeup artist who explains what she does, and how she does it. The video of her creations gave us the heebie-jeebies. As the business model for local journalism has eroded, so has the headcount of local reporters. A bill Gov. Newsom just signed will inject cash into local newsrooms every time they hire a journalist. KCRW’s Zoha Malik looks at who in LA will benefit, and how much it will help. An American citizen from Long Beach was hospitalized after an encounter with ICE agents last week. The head of Immigrant Defenders Law Center tells KCRW’s Madeleine Brand what happened and gives her theory about why. Local Meme of the Week KCRW's Local Letterbox Things to Do This Week – There are so many places to get scared, show off your costume, or hear Halloween music this week. And now the Día de los Muertos festivals are starting too. Art Insider with Carolina Miranda – A look at Monica Majoli’s work based on the Ovulars, workshops that met each summer to explore what a truly feminist, non-objectifying photography looked like (for instance, if the subjects were nude, so was the photographer). Find more local happenings all around Los Angeles in the KCRW App's Explore tab. Download the KCRW App     KCRW 1900 Pico Blvd.  Santa Monica, CA 90405  You received this email because you are subscribed to KCRW Local from KCRW. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. Unsubscribe from all future emails. |
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