I just called the Echo Park Rec Center. The person who answered the phone said the park is closing tomorrow and people will only have access to the public spaces south of Bellevue.
It seems like Rec and Parks knows exactly when the park is closing.
It seems like Rec and Parks knows exactly when the park is closing.
https://twitter.com/KateCagle/status/1374842433867894786
However, you can still book a swan boat ride for tomorrow or any other day, so maybe details of the closure have not yet reached the Boathouse?
Seems like vendors, including those who sell food in the park, should be alerted if they're going to lose business for weeks or months?
Seems like vendors, including those who sell food in the park, should be alerted if they're going to lose business for weeks or months?
I called Wheel Fun Rentals, which operates the swan boats, and the person said they knew about a potential closure, but didn't have additional details about when, and hoped it wouldn't affect them.
It seems strange they wouldn't have the same information. Is the park closing?
It seems strange they wouldn't have the same information. Is the park closing?
I don't know which part of this makes me angrier — that we're getting more detailed closure information from street vendors than city officials, or that people who depend on the park for their economic livelihood are just now being told this today
https://twitter.com/ACatWithNews/status/1374897703163813889
At Echo Park Lake watching hundreds of LAPD in riot gear advance on protesters and I finally get the notification that swan boats are closing tomorrow
No one installed a fence. A wall of cops in riot gear closed all the streets around the lake so they could harass and intimidate unhoused people.
@MitchOFarrell knew this was going to happen tonight. He lied to journalists and he lied to his constituents.
@MitchOFarrell knew this was going to happen tonight. He lied to journalists and he lied to his constituents.
https://twitter.com/MitchOFarrell/status/1374955290181861377
Now, at this moment, LAPD is literally fencing people who have nowhere else to go into a park.
The city of LA has walled off a 16-acre public space, lied about when it was happening, and made no effort to alert the community until the fence was going up.
The city of LA has walled off a 16-acre public space, lied about when it was happening, and made no effort to alert the community until the fence was going up.
https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1374975778278895616
THE SWAN BOATS TOLD ME THAT ECHO PARK LAKE WAS BEING CLOSED BEFORE MY COUNCILMEMBER DID FOR FUCK'S SAKE
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