« on: March 02, 2025, 06:50:49 pm »
How LA’s $588 million ‘Ribbon of Light’ landmark became proof that ‘we can’t have nice things’
By Jared Downing
Published March 2, 2025, 5:22 p.m. ET
NY Post
LOS ANGELES — This is why LA can’t have nice things.
Last weekend, vandals in Los Angeles painted a massive “F–K TRUMP” message on the 6th Street Viaduct: a half-mile illuminated bridge that local leaders have touted as the greatest new landmark in town.
But while originally hailed for its striking look, the $588 million structure — dubbed the “Ribbon of Light” for the color-changing spotlights that set its flowing, modern-style architecture aglow — has become a darkened crime-ridden eyesore.
Time and again, thieves have stolen the copper wire for the lights as drag racers turn it into a private derby track and vandals wallpaper it in graffiti. ...
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[H]umanity repeats the worst mistakes of previous generations and ... every free, prosperous civilization will eventually be destroyed by that small fraction of its people who find no satisfaction in anything but anger.
-- Dean Koontz, "The Friend of the Family"
