Even Hollywood hates the bright green bike lanes in downtown LA
Photo Credit: A brewery tour takes visitors on a bike ride down the Spring Street bike lane in Los Angeles. Flickr / Umberto Brayj
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There’s intense competition for the revenue that film shoots bring in, and there are plenty of cities willing to look more generic to get a piece of LA’s booming tourism market.
It's not easy being green, as a notable Hollywood star once sang. But not even Kermit the Frog was subjected to the indignity of a Los Angeles Times editorial demanding he change his shade.
The city's principal newspaper – still regarded by some, if not all, as the arbiter of everything LA – on Monday demanded that municipal authorities bow to the demands of the film industry to repaint a particularly gaudy bike lane.
Producers complain that the bright green, six-foot wide la
