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After decades of concrete channel, I guess flood prevention/control technology has advanced to the point that the city's comfortable with taking out the concrete and putting a park along the Los Angeles River.
While I'm definitely in favor of rehabilitating our much-maligned river, and I'm in favor of more green space, this seems like a bad idea. What the rendering doesn't show is the existing power lines (the huge structural kind, not the telephone pole attached kind) that afaik they don't have a plan to remove or replace. Also, it's on the "wrong side" of the river (away from downtown, closer to even worse areas. On top of that, it would be a hotbed of homelessness, it's far from rail transit, the bridge is too curvy so it's more ornamental and less functional, etc, etc.
People are too blinded by the idea of river reclamation to offer valid and needed criticisms of it.
Apologies for the image, I know it's smaller than one might like but it's the best I could find.
