Sign the Petition
Ξ April 16th, 2008 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
Led by District 1 County Supervisor Gloria Molina, the L.A. Board of Supervisors has passed new restrictions that will effectively eliminate taco trucks from our streets. Under Supervisor Molina’s new rules, taco trucks will have to change location every hour, or face a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine and/or jail. Yes, jail.
Taco Trucks are a special facet of Los Angeles, and something we don’t want to lose. Though this ordinance currently affects just unincorporated parts of L.A., that’s 65% of the County. And of course it opens up the doors for legislation closer to home too.
Let’s send Gloria Molina and the L.A. Board of Supervisors a message that we cherish our local vendors and don’t want to see them move away. This new law needs to be repealed!
Click here to sign the petition!
on April 16th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Save the trucks!
on April 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
There are always restaurants that succeed, and always restaurants that fail. Shutting down Taco Trucks won’t help those failing restaurants and harms the community.
on April 16th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
This is a joke. I will never vote for another of these representatives if this law is enforced
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:01 am
My family has lived in L.A. since the 1920s. My grandfathers worked in the steal industry building rails and my grandmothers seamstress. My Aunts, Uncles, Parents and Cousins almost all went to school here in East Los. I grew up in Boyle Heights and still live here. My father worked on the Red Line, Staples Center and many of the building built here in the last 40 years.
I am (we are) disgusted that you would attack such a staple of Los Angeles, of East Los, that has been here for so long and so known. Just for a few restaurants complaining because people PREFER the taco trucks.
It’s as though the stores are making excuses for their crappy food and not making improvements.
And to think i voted for you… sheesh.
Ometeo.
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Taco trucks are an important installation of the Los Angeles Landscape! Making trucks move every hour will make it virtually impossible for them to stay in business, as people seeking these businesses know where to find them.
Please do not punish taco truck owners and workers who work hard to make Los Angeles a great place to live, work and eat.
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:52 am
This ordinance is truly disgusting and without any moral basis. Taco trucks do not take business from restaurants. They serve different purposes and provide different services. One cannot sit down at a truck and receive table service or consume alcohol, for one thing. Taco trucks have also become an important part of the fabric of Los Angeles, and have provided a way for countless immigrants to start a business and build for the future, while providing a valued service to the community.
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I guess the taco trucks are not corporate enough. Not enough kickbacks. What a crock.
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Why provide special protections to restaurants? If they can’t compete with taco trucks, they ought to get out of the restaurant business. The community needs cheap food alternatives, now more than ever.
on April 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Save the taco trucks!
on April 17th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Viva los taqueros!
on April 17th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Leave the ‘fayucas’ alone.
on April 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Taco trucks are part of our culture!
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
It is a dangerous thing when businesses eliminate competition by making a deal with friends holding office. Here’s some advice for those whiney restaurants complainging about the taco trucks: make better food with better service at good prices and suck it up. That’s what we call competition. Keep your hands off my taco.
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
why take away some of the best food this city offers?!
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Our trucks are an important part of our identity. Our representative should be aware of that.
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
We love the taco trucks, and we’ll be furious hungry people if they’re outlawed!
A hungry man IS an angry man…..
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Taco trucks must be kept.
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Unless there is overwhelming evidence that these business ventures harm the body politic, I cannot conceive of an argument that can hold water. Simply enough, these motor restaurants are highly popular and have become a part of the landscape of Los Angeles County. To place over-bearing constraints on them is not only bad public policy, it is also unconstitutional.
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Carne Asada plate at a restaurant, $10.99.
Two frozen beef tacos at taco bell, $4.99
Fresh and Delicious taco plate at the truck, PRICELESS!
Save the Lonchera Trucks
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
ridiculous
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I think this is just going over the line. This is unfair and not right. I hope this does not pass!
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Life is not complete without tacos.
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Hey, Big Taco lobby! If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. “Peace,” of course, meaning carne-asada tacos of the finest taco truck caliber.
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Let us stand up for entrepreneurs
on April 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I would starve without taco trucks! Leave the taco trucks alone!
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Shame on you Gloria.
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Gloria Molina is a sell-out! Long live the La Estrella taco trucks in Eagle Rock and Highland Park!
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Who doesn’t like the taco trucks?!
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
An essential part of the LA gastro landscape.
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I LOVE TACOS! (But only from kick ass taco trucks.) Save them all!
on April 17th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hands off _my_ carne asada.
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
VIVA LA TORTA!
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I don’t support the L.A. Board of Supervisors measure regarding mobile food vendors and find this yet another reason to seriously question how Gloria Molina is spending her time as an elected representative.
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I do not agree with this petition. I work in an area that the restaurants are HUGELY expensive and the taco trucks are my only affordable option if I do not bring my own lunch for the day. Who can afford $10 lunchs everyday? Not the average working class person.
on April 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Since when has a LACK of competition, in food or otherwise, produced BETTER outcomes? Certainly not at the LA City Council, a modern day manifestation of feudal society.
on April 17th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
The argument that taco trucks take away business from brick and mortar vendors is probably true, but it’s because they’re offering a more palatable product.
Every great city has street food - the fact that the LA Board of Supervisors finds the need to prosecute and declare war on the taco trucks and hot dog vendors of are city proves to me they don’t think about the culture and personality that sets us apart. Acts like this strip away the personality and vibrancy of Los Angeles. And there are bigger issues Gloria Molina should be worried about - taco trucks are not one of them.
on April 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Instead of wasting your time attacking on immigrants who just come to this country to work, try to come up with new strategies to get the REAL criminals in prison, spend more money on education, and get the state out of these budget cuts. Some people depend on these trucks for living. Put your time, money, and thinking into REAL benefits for the country.
on April 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
In a city with so few late-night dining choices, Taco Trucks are very important to me!
on April 17th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Vaya con carne!
on April 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
There’s nothing like eating lonchera tacos under a full moon.
~Peace and Tacos~
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Hmmm, good tacos!
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
The fight for tacos is the fight for freedom.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Please do unfairly punish the taco trucks.
Alena @ Blooms
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I think there are better things to focus our budget-strapped law enforcement agencies on than enforcing these kinds of laws.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Please, please repeal this truly silly use of city resources. If customers prefer taco trucks to a particular ‘brick and mortar’ restaurant, then I guess the customers have spoken.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
To me, this is like saying, I can’t go to my local mom/pop shop for some tacos just b/c it’s on wheels.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Taco trucks are part of the culture in LA as well as one of the best places in town to get real Mexican food. I would be devestated if my local taco truck was removed. It has been an important fixture on our street feeding the entire neighborhood of workers for more than 17 years now. Don’t ruin it for us just because you can’t see a way to leach money out of their mostly cash businesses. How dare you.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
You cant take something form us that we grew up with we wont stand for this anymore.
on April 17th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Seriously, this is ridiculous.
The truck on Huntington Dr. in El Sereno called La Golondrina is an institution…….and there are no restaurants to get tacos open after 9:00 P.M. around there…….you expect me to go to Jack-In-The-Box for tacos or something!.!???! C’mon this is really uncool!
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Taco trucks are daily sustainance for the average man, woman, and child in East LA. Not all taco trucks compromise small brick-and-mortar businesses and a blanket ordinance would hurt many trucks. The city should just create a permit system to allow trucks to serve a particular area so long as no nearby businesses object to their presence.
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
This is an outrage!
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
as integral to our cultural fabric as douchebags driving suv’s!!!
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
You’re right she is a sell out. I don’t even eat at taco trucks and I don’t want them gone.
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
taco trucks of the world unite and take over.
on April 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Sunshine, Palm Trees, The Lakers, The Dodgers, and Taco Trucks thats LA get a grip Gloria ….how about fixing the potholes along Wilshire Blvd?
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
this is just like the when they ran the BWHD (bacon wrapped hot dogs) vendors out of LA. street vendors are a cultural human experience. fascism never rest! what’s next the paleta vendors?
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
LA wouldn’t be LA without taco trucks. and i agree, it would be better to spend time and energy fixing our streets and our public transportation system - things that are REAL problems in LA.
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
There is no logic to getting rid of LA’s taco trucks; find me a restaurant who’s business has been legitimately hindered by a taco truck serving food outside a bar/club/venue at 1:30 or 2am, and maybe you’ll have something of case. Totally ridiculous.
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Why does none of the press on this subject fail to mention the superior product and service the trucks provide? Banning them is unfair to the consumer and downright anti-capitalistic.
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I need my taco trucks!
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
LA without Taco Trucks is not LA…..
what are you guys thinking ???
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Save the taco trucks!!
on April 17th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Look, LA is known for various things like our beloved Hollywood sign (which is stupidly being threatened),Palm Tree’s and Venice beach..but a mainstay of Los Angeles is the Taco Truck..this isn’t NY..we need to be able to find good food anywhere at almost anytime..most restaurants aren’t open til 3am but I know of at least 5 taco trucks that are..leave them alone!
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I might go to a taco truck once or twice a year, so this is a non-issue for me. What defies logic is why you should waste your, and the taxpayers’ time on such an ordinance, rather than dealing with the problems with the gangs on Drew Street and elsewhere. This is far more serious an issue, and one that has far greater impact to EVERYONE in Los Angeles.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I’m voting taco
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Taco trucks exist because there is a market for them. We should encourage this type of small-business development and not continue criminalizing hard working people who are trying to make an honest living.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
seriously.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
yo quiero taco.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Don’t we have other thing to take care of in this City? Free the Taco Trucks
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Don’t we have other thing to take care of in this city? Free the Taco Trucks!
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I LOVE TACOS!!! Don’t criminalize working people.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
What a waste of resources. You can have my taco when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. In fact, I’m going to get one taco from every taco truck in the neighborhood tonight, and boycott any restaurant that sells them, indefinitely, or until you decide to repeal this idiotic and monopolistic law.
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
save the trucks!!!!
on April 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
This would be a sad loss for East L.A. and all people who appreciate culture!
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Pro-taco!
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Don’t make the taco trucks move every hour. That’s stupid. Let them be. How will we know where to find them? The taco truck on Lincoln below Rose rocks - and that is the only way I know to identify it. Don’t force it to move around the neighborhood.
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I love the tacos!!! Don’t let the man (or in this case the woman) get you down!!
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
As an Echo Park resident, I don’t know if I qualify, but I if there’s no Taco Zone, I might go hungry.
Most of the trucks I eat at are only there in the PM to late night. If there were brick and mortar restaurants open late that didn’t make me sick (Bright Spot, Burrito King, etc…) I could understand. Tacos are part of this land. People come from all over the country to Los Angeles to eat at these formidable establishments. The people who serve these beautiful tacos, burritos, tortas, and mulitas do the work of saints and should be commended, not condemned.
save the tacos people!
Mustang
on April 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Some of the best tacos I ever had were purchased from the truck on Western & 7th. This is a living for the people on the trucks - they are working, not taking welfare. I think the city should really look at how to provide some escape from gangs for the children of this city, and leave the working class alone.
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
taco trucks are not only some of the best culture in la, but they provide the cheap eats that keeps my band happy after shows and rehearsals.
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Taco trucks provide jobs for working families and affordable meals to the community. They are an integral part of the Los Angeles landscape. To deprive LA of taco trucks is to erase a vital part of its identity. In addition, targeting taco trucks is like targeting the Latino community and this cannot be accepted!
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
The Taco trucks harm no one in this city but they do provide an economic opportunity as well as inexpensive food for the populace. This law needs to be repealed. I also will add that I live around the corner from two Taco trucks!
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Someone should take Gloria Molina to eat at
one of these taco trucks……
after tasting some real good tacos
I know she’ll change her mind about the taco truck.
Let the best taco win!!!!!!
p.s. who ever takes her, take plenty of money
cuz’ she looks like a heavy hitter.
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
L.A. should check out how things are done in New York and support these small businesses. Keep the taco trucks on the streets!
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
viva la revolucion!
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Taco trucks provide an important service for people whose work schedules don’t allow them to eat dinner at regular times. Plus their food is just so good…
on April 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Save them. It’s representative of LA County.
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Shame on you Gloria!!! Think of what is INSIDE those trucks. Food on a family’s table the next morning, a sense of great pride for making me a better meal than what’s served for triple the price at a takeout place and whether you like it or not, a beloved LA cultural fixture. Listen to this petition and find a compromise, then turn your attention to more urgent matters, like getting the homeless off the streets. Then perhaps you’ll get re-elected.
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:02 am
I lived in L.A. for several years and go back to visit frequently. The taco trucks are one of my favorite stops. I also eat at good restaurants, but the trucks don’t replace the restaurants - they add an authentic touch of L.A. culture and good food to the neighborhood streets. I love the friendly conversation and atmosphere at the trucks. It seems L.A. has a lot of real problems you would want to spend you time and energy to improve L.A. instead of destroying a tourist delight as welll as an authentic and positive grass roots effort that helps the families that run the trucks as well as the many, many that can’t afford the more expensive restaurants. What a shame!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Taco Trucks are part of the street culture its a def no no to try to hate on them..Save the trucks!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Tacos are street food, and frankly they taste better when you’re standing up on a street corner under a street light. Don’t take that away…
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:57 am
dont forget about the mariscos trucks in venice!!
i dont think i could live without them……
tacp libre!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Taco stands are part of Los Angeles culture. Please don’t push them away from our wonderful city. They mean more to the people of Los Angeles then you know.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Passing this law would be a terrible blow to the culture of Los Angeles. It was bad enough when Disney “fixed” Times Square — let’s not make the same mistakes as New York. Keep Los Angeles Los Angeles.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:38 am
no.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:47 am
LA needs it’s taco trucks.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:45 am
I *heart* taco trucks.
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Taco trucks are so much part of the culture of Los Angeles. To eliminate them would be to further homogenize
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:41 am
If I liked the Westside, I’d go live there, but I DON’T– because it’s the kind of place that would ban Taco Trucks! I stay Eastside because it has soul. Taco trucks are part of the soul of LA. Board of Supervisors, don’t be a soul-sucker.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Another example of the city kow-towing to establishment business.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Gloria Molina perdio mi voto. Salva los Taco Trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Taco trucks provide a tasty service to the community.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Taco trucks bring so much character to a city that could never have too much. Don’t destroy such a classic piece of LA.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Gloria Molina is out of touch with the community, with the very soul of what makes us a vibrant crosscultural city. Taco trucks build community; taco trucks create positive interruptions in an over-planned, over-built concrete city, where people come together in that rarest of places - outdoors! - to tranquilly share space and a few minutes of positive civic interaction. Taco trucks should be seen, contrary to Supervisor Molina’s position, as role models for other forms of public interaction in the city’s commons. Taco trucks are worthy of community celebration and civic pride.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:58 am
These trucks are part of the wonderful mix of flavors in LA. We need them as much as they need us!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
If there was ever a time to come together for a common cause, to coalesce as a common people, it’s for this - the taco truck. Unido estamos parados!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Es una desgracia lo que esté haciendo la ciudad a los pobres vendedores de tacos. Ellos nos alimentan todos los días y cómo les agradecen…sin verguenzas.
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Get off of their backs and let them earn an honest leaving!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Please don’t take away my favorite taco trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Instead of hurting honest, hard working people, Ms. Molina, along with your other fellow Supervisors (and all other politicians) “Why don’t you focus on the real problems facing our communities (homelessness, gangs, rising gas prices)?”
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:56 am
These trucks are part of what make this city great. They should be celebrated, not banned. Very few of them are in real, direct competition with restaurants and almost all of them provide an important service to their communities.
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
The effort to ban taco trucks is misguided at best. These small-business owners deserve all of our support. The taco truck is to L.A. what the street hot dog cart is to N.Y. — an essential ingredient in making the city what it is.
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
This is another form of intimidating immigrants back into the shadows. We gotta build a movement to stop the right-wing, even if some of them are Latinos!
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I hope this helps.I will forward this petition over to everyone I know
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
SAVE OUR TRUCKS!!!
ATTICA! ATTICA!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Tacos!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I’ve written an editorial on this for the LA Times - it should be out on Monday. Save the trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hey Gloria Molina how you think King Taco got’s it start….damn when can we get her out of office?
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Let’s see…. Ban taco trucks or provide healthcare to disadvantaged people? Well, obviously, banning taco trucks is more important! Way to go, Supervisor Molina!
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Gloria, What is your beef with taco trucks?
There are plenty more serious problems in our county requiring your attention. Leave the taco trucks alone and focus on our gang problems or the MTA which is a torn in the side of county residents.
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Stop picking on the little guy
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Gloria, taco trucks provide something we all love! Go spend your energy and money on something we all DON’T love like gangbangers, lack of services, food for the poor, and healthcare…need I go on???
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
don’t mess with my tacos. those trucks come in handy towards the end of the month when i’m running low on cash and rent is coming up. thanks.
on April 18th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
You’d think there would be bigger issues to go after in this city. Like providing more jobs, not taking them away. Save the trucks and the livelihood of all those working in them to provide tasty, affordable food to the people of LA.
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
tacos tacos tacos
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Taco trucks don’t do anything but bring people of the community together which is very rare in the areas that they are in. To take that away from the people would be taking culture away from that area.
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
mmmmm tacos…..
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Stop using county resources for such madness. Save the trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
This is madness! Let the Taco Truck BE!!! This is just a shake down to raise money for the city, and its quite disgusting! The taco truck is a nice, inexpensive eatery around the city… really Supervisor Molina is just robbing from the poor!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Please stop messing with the livelyhoods of the truck vendors. Everyone needs to earn a living! VIVA LA TACO TRUCKS!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
please use this money to repair our school systems and not for ISH like this! save our trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
yummmmmmmm taco trucks!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Umm.. I’m hungry
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
It would be a crime to lose the Suadero Tacos at Taco Zone (the truck parker on Alvarado by Glendale Blvd).
on April 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
You’d think there would be bigger issues to go after in this city. Like providing help to those in need and more jobs, not taking them away. Save the trucks and the livelihood of all those working in them to provide tasty, affordable food to the people of LA.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
viva la taco trucks
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
MMMMM. taco trucks are the best…
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The taco trucks are a necessary institution. They feed people and are providing jobs… please, there are MORE IMPORTANT issues for this city to deal with.
ALL WE ARE SAYING, IS GIVE TACO TRUCKS A CHANCE!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
what a shame. I’d be nothing without taco zone.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Please do not eliminate this LA institution.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
what a joke. You can’t pretend this didn’t use to be Mexico!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Dear Taco Trucks,
I love you.
xoxo
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
This is the reason so much business has gone overseas. This country makes it so difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive. Instead of supporting people trying to make an honest living, they want take advantage of the least defensible, and give aid to the most powerful(BearSterns bailout)
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Tacos - the fabric of our lives.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
i like tacos, saves the trucks!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
SAVE THE TRUCKS!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
save the tacos!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
How can you get rid of taco trucks? That’s one of the many things that make our city what it is. Save the taco trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
bring back the bacon hotdogs too.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Taco trucks are what make LA so special. You’d be ripping the heart out of the city…
Please save the taco truck. PLEASE!!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
EMAIL THAT MOLINA SUPERVISOR LADY!
http://molina.lacounty.gov/
molina@bos.lacounty.gov
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
This is outrageous. It’s like taking away the palm trees, or the sunshine.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Oh no! Not the taco trucks!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
This is outrageous. It’s like taking away the palm trees, or the sunshine.
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Taco Trucks are part of LA!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Keep the taco trucks
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Ridiculous!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Lame
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
What the crap?!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
absolutely ridiculous.
how can you hate on taco trucks?
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
lame!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Just another example of the system trying to keep the brown man down!
on April 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I will not relenquish my al pastor.
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Yes on taco trucks.
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Taco Trucks are part of the fabric of this community. I beg you, do not interrupt and destroy part of what makes Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Fight for your right to eat street meat!
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Carne Asada good…molina bad!
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Fight the good fight!
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
long live TT
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I’m fighting for my right to eat Suadero in the Vons parking lot.
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
viva la taco truck!
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
What about the rights of those less well-off who want to eat out but would like to save money the old-fashioned way by not going to restaurants? You can’t beat a dinner of three tacos for less than four dollars! Shame on our bought and paid for LA government.
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
There are many other important issues to go after ie: street violence etc, i could name soooooo many others, so please leave the TACO TRUCKS alone!!!!!!!!!!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Keep taco trucks alive!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ms Molina, these trucks are a Los Angeles institution. By enforcing this law, you take away jobs as well as something the community appreciates and uses. You will be doing more harm than good and also creating several unhappy constituents.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
TT are part of LA culture, why not take the palm trees down while you are at it.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
TT are part of Los Angeles culture. Yes, we have one!
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
just one more law..
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
SAVE THE TRUCKS. they are the nexus of los angeles culture. dont let kill natural occurring urbanism! then the government wonders why there is gentrification and whiteflight.
let the city grown and live on its own!
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I hope this legislation is stopped. Taco trucks are one of the few perks which contribute to a community experience in my diverse neighborhood.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Taco trucks are legitimate business that are thriving because there is a huge demand for their services. To stop their operation based on a technicality is sheer protectionism which serves only to protect a small class of local businesses while shouldering consumers with higher prices and reduced selection. Why shouldn’t brick and mortar restaurants be forced to compete on an equal playing field with the tacos trucks in their neighborhoods.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Good inexpensive food for the masses should be easy to obtain.
One hour? That’s maybe enough time to park and set up. By the time a line of people show up, it’d be time to leave. This almost feels like an effort to destroy the taco truck.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
this is an outrage!
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
an hour? come on that’s rediculous.
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
it’s like taking away the palm trees, or the sunshine
on April 18th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
You are restricting, one of the features of Los Angeles that make it such a special place. You are also restricting the progress of the mexican community that is striving to intergrate into our urban fabric.
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
We love tacos!!! I’m all for healthier options, but don’t deprive us of the occasional tacos de diabetes that we so dearly enjoy. Now we will have to go elsewhere and spend our money on tacos outside East LA. Gentrification, no tacos, what’s next?!!! Noooooo…
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
SAVE THE TACOS!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Save the Tacos!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
yay tacos!
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
taco trucks rock. don’t make them move or i’ll starve trying to find my favorite.
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I’ve had out-of-town friends inquire about these trucks when they come to visit. They are obviously a SoCal (LA) staple and should be held in such regard!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Save our yummy tacos! Don’t deny us local culture!
on April 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I love tacos…. SAVE THE TRUCKS!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Save the trucks. They’re an important part of the city.
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Si a los tacos.
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Mmmmm…tacos!
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
save our taco trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I love the taco trucks! Look for my upcoming book where I review the many taco trucks of Los Angels, and have a picture of me with the friendly Taco Truck employees at each location!
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
viva los tacos
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Ridiculous. Taco trucks should not be blamed for a restaurant’s failure. If a restaurant cannot offer a service to compete with taco trucks, then maybe it shouldn’t be in business. This is completely unjust.
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
this is absolutely ridiculous. no rhyme or reason except legal harassment. simply uncalled for. leave them alone. let us eat.
on April 18th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Please, please, please don’t do this. Many people make meager livings off of these trucks and they’re a cultural institution in this town. Save the trucks and save L.A.
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
VIVA LOS TACOS!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Save the tacos!!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I don’t eat anything that wasn’t prepared on four wheels.
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
save our trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Imposing statutes on these trucks will essentially push them out of business. This is just another example of big business using it’s political muscle to push smaller, independently owned businesses out of the market. Stand up for the little guy!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
This is a ridiculous crime against our own people.
Save the trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
This is ridiculous. Save the taco trucks.
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Don’t shut down the taco trucks…please!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
TAKE THEM AND DIE!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Viva los tacos!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Leave the trucks alone
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
screw you gloria…back away from the taco trucks
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I’m a film maker who lives in Koreatown, and without my taco trucks, I would be lost.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
If this law passes, where will I go now for my Torta de Carne asada and my large Horcahata?!?!?!
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Businesses charge prices that the market will bear. I eat at local taco trucks, El Huarache, York Burger, Villa Sombrero, Senor Fish, and any number of local places for tacos and other Mexican food. Taco trucks are NOT killing local restaurants–they are simply one among many alternatives. Attempting to regulate taco trucks out of existence is not only bad for business, it’s bad for the community and it’s bad PR. I’m sending an email to Gloria Molina right now.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Tacos from trucks are tasty.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
leave my beloved trucks alone.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Save the trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
if this law passes, a lot of longshoreman are gonna be hungry
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
save the taco trucks and keep LA real.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
They can;t take our taco trucks. I won’t let them.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Taco trucks are great! Especially Leo’s TACOS!!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
This is ridiculous.. It’s reasons like this I no longer affiliate myself with the democratic party.
on April 18th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Best mexican food in town- keep the culture alive in our streets pendejo.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
LA - taco trucks = Glendale
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Why is the city so intent on controlling and putting down facets of what makes Los Angeles our city these days? Who is city gov. representing these days, anyway? Why is the city messing with businesses that are actually making a profit through good food and low prices?
I love my taco trucks. They’re where friends and I gather to eat and chat. Viva Taco Trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
An L.A. Institution !!!
Please don’t let this happen !!
My 5 year old daughter loves taco trucks !
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
please let the taco trucks be, and let us eat in peace.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
CARNE ASADA FOR LIFE!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
While I think taco trucks should be inspected by the department of health and have permits, I LOVE taco trucks and was the co author of a taco truck round up in Time Out LA a few years ago. They are a vital part of LA culture and food. SAVE OUR TACO TRUCKS! Please keep our trucks intact and our souls happy. Okay I can see limiting the number in an area, especially if there is am impact on restaurants, but WE NEED THEM. Seriously.
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
SAVE THE TRUCKS!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
taco trucks ARE los angeles.. personally my single favorite thing about the city!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Don’t mess with our trucks!
on April 18th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Don’t mess with our trucks!!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
it seems to me that the taco truck is by definition the most efficient, simple and honest method for getting a taco from grill to mouth.
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
whats a city without a coach i can afford….and oh sooooooo, yes! enjoy!
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Please leave the trucks alone.
on April 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
KEEP THE TACO TRUCKS!!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Please don’t do this to our taco trux.
on April 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Please don’t do this to the hard working people who feed us delicious tacos y burritos!
on April 19th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Free market.
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Taco trucks are the best thing about LA. They are also the only place to eat at night… and in my neighborhood the only good food around, day or night!
If anything they should be encouraged! If “established” restaurant owners have trouble with business maybe they should make some better food, or get a truck of there own.
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:44 am
This is un-American.
on April 19th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I’m hungry.
on April 19th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Save the taco’s n the trucks that carry them around!
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am
don’t do this
on April 19th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Without Taco trucks, inebriated individuals drive home immediately after the bar or the club. Restrictions on taco trucks will cause drunk driving deaths to increase. Taco trucks very well could be the solution to the War in Iraq; or one of the wars’ effects on a local level, the Los Angeles budget crises. About 750 city workers are soon to be laid off. Perhaps these latter things are even more worthy of discussion amoungst the Board of Supervisors than taco trucks.
on April 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Give me tacos or give me Death!!!
Why on earth is Molina going after the lone ranger of fast food when there are so many DIRE situations that need attention. This is serious, Los Angeles has issues with pollution, the price of crude oil rising at an alarming rate,(nationallu at $115 a barrel at the moment) gang violence and theft, yet our ELECTED city officials would target unsuspecting mostly family owned and operated businesses, and spend tax payers money on meetings concerning….what? TACO TRUCKS?! MOLINA WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, FIND ANOTHER PROFESSION. Public service is not for you.
Joanna C
Los Angeles, CA
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:13 am
what a great idea!
let’s make sure that while we make it impossible for vendors of low priced, delicious food around the city, we also crack down on any free parking or non-private beach access.
how do these people get into office?
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:18 am
i like tacos
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:30 am
What will the world be without our taco trucks!?!?
Some of my fondest memories involve taco trucks, do not strip us of our carne asada
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am
this blows
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I love the taco trucks, the food, the prices, the friendliness of eating and engaging on the sidewalk, not a sit down affair and with anyone and everyone else standing in line.
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:26 am
save the world - one taco truck at a time.
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Not cool.
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
what has this city come to? Taco trucks are an important part of our city!
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Businesses charge prices that the market will bear. I eat at local taco trucks, El Huarache, York Burger, Villa Sombrero, Senor Fish, and any number of local places for tacos and other Mexican food. Taco trucks are NOT killing local restaurants–they are simply one among many alternatives. Attempting to regulate taco trucks out of existence is not only bad for business, it’s bad for the community and it’s bad PR. I’ve also sent an email to Gloria Molina.
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:40 am
This is the most ridiculous use of voter’s time and money. Instead of policing people who are working had to make ends meet. Why not use the money to solve the issues of graffiti and gang issues in the area?
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Don’t these people have enough problems? Gas prices, food prices, etc.?????
They are ONLY TRYING to earn a living…Yes, I said EARN, better being an entreprener than holding up a bank, or robbing a convenient store!!!!!
Give them a BREAK!!!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Taco Trucks are part of our culture. and what’s wrong with hard working people trying to earn a living.
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:51 am
These hardworking people are just trying to make a living. Why do you want to take this away from them?
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Way to attack brown people trying to make a living.
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Taco trucks are not hurting anyone. There are more important things for the government to worry about than taco trucks. They make the best tacos. Don’t take them away!
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I count on several taco trucks for my dinner after work, and I count on them being in their usual spots every night. This new law would kill their business and would kill my consumption of delicious burritos that I count on. What’s next? Taking away my bacon wrapped hot dogs?
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
If it were not for these trucks, I would have starved at age 12.
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Construction workers don’t have the time to head over to Chipotle. Keep the trucks in place!
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Please don’t allow a major cultural facet of our city be destroyed!
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Taco trucks are a vital part of Los Angeles culture. No tourist or vistor leaves without having that Angelino experience.
They also represent a portion of our economy and serves to keep many many people employed and sustained in an unstable economy.
Do not destroy this part of Los Angeles.
Our city would be so much the poorer in many ways.
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
When I first moved to LA only a year ago, I practically got down on my knees to thank the Culinary Gods for the gift of the taco truck. They are a shining beacon of deliciousness to those who both love food and need/want it provided cheaply. Want to ban cheap quick food? Why not start with the disgusting fast food ‘restaurants’ like McDonalds?
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:32 am
this can’t go down. tacos are my favorite food and this place has the best. i think all these supervisors or whatever really need to just take a second to get real.
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Taco trucks are too important to lose. Doesn’t city government have more important things to focus on?
on April 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Many business professionals and entertainment execs working in the mid wilshire area frequent these trucks daily for lunch, preferring them over the mediocre restaurant options nearby.
on April 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
save the taco trucks
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Taco truck are part of America’s free market. Destroying them through law shows how much power big business or corporations have on the government. That is not a fair market.
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Carne Asada for life!
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
——-READ THIS ONE——–
you guys suck with your petty laws, seems like this is a raciest move by your self appointed egotistical
bullshit, you should be doing something about gangs, and crime, and quit fucking with Mexicans.
——READ THIS ONE——
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
taco trucks are one of the best and most distinctive things about l.a.
on April 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
there is no reason why taco trucks would be a threat to restaurants. they are very different services and are not in competition with each other. please allow us residents to obtain our food from a variety of these trusted sources.
on April 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I want my carne asada tacos! From the trucks!
on April 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Taco trucks are one of the things I love about L.A.
Banning them is like banning pizza stands in N.Y
on April 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
this blows!
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Move every hour?! That doesn’t make any sense at all…..leave the taco trucks alone. They are one of the most distinctive things about LA.
Too much government intervention.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
This is wrong.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
It is unfair to regulate these trucks out of business. They provide goods and services that no one else is willing to provide to the citizens of los Angeles.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
My goodness, one would think that the Board of Supervisors didn’t have more pressing matters to address. Please leave our beloved taco trucks alone.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
tacos!
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
This new law is ridiculous, racist and classist! Our taco trucks provide a huge service- cheap, yummy food, and are a such a unique experience in L.A.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
It seems this country has discovered the power of war.
STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ!
STOP THE WAR ON THE LITTLE PLANT- SMOKE MARIJUANA!
STOP THE WAR ON THE CARNE ASADA TACOS…
for the love of God. It’s bad enough I can only get a bacon wrapped hot dog on the street at 2 in the morning.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Leave street vendors and taco trucks alone!!
Don’t mess with things that you don’t understand and are not a part of. You are here to serve us, but do not presume to know what’s best for us and our communities.
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Taco trucks are a cultural icon and provide some of the best and cheapest food in LA! Hands off please!!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
You are kidding right? Leave those hard working guys and gals alone!!!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
this is yet another attempt to squelch small business who can barely eek out a living.
on April 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
leave the taco trucks alone they have great taco’s cheap and always have clean kitchens fresh meat
on April 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Keep our street vendors in operation!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I won’t allow these politcians ruin businesses like the El Flaco taco truck off the 60 fwy on 3rd St. That’s one of the best in town.
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
taco truck tacos are the best
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Everyone i know loves the Taco Trucks!
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
These trucks provide some of the finest food I have ever had.
on April 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
My taco truck always rocks me
on April 19th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Don’t ever forget that this is a big part the cuisine and the culture that make Los Angeles a unique and vibrant world city.
on April 19th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
The economy is bad as it is, then why are you doing this? this is unfear and unreal. I cannot believe that the governoment is focusing on banning taco trucks and kicking out immigrants, when the real problem is the war!!! why can’t we see a sign for once that read, “BANNING THE WAR” NOW thats reality. Focus goverment, focus please!! we are not stupid, we know exactly what’s going on!! Change for Good, remember this corrupted world is where your children live in, I know you don’t give a crap about us the people but do this for your own family, unless of course you don’t even have heart for them either. People grow up, stop the selfishness, stop the corruption, stop the gossip, stop the madness, stop the racism, stop the abuse, and start living. GOVERNMENT, I KNOW YOU GUYS WENT TO SCHOOL AND GOT DEGREES AND ARE VERY WISE, AND IF THAT IS THE CASE THAN WHY ARE YOU SOOOO STUPID IN YOUR DECISION MAKING.
on April 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Why would you want put more honest, hard working people on unemployment!
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
This is a ridiculous law. Repeal it immediately.
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tacotruck14apr14,0,4600263.story?page=2
The quotes in that article indicate this is an attempt at further gentrification, along with hints of a unique brand of facism: “It just makes the community look like there’s no order.” If this is a move for the sake of capitalism, then what happened to the free market?
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
please, think of the tacos!
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Dear Supervisor Molina and Board
Don’t you take away our lunch truck! What are you doing?? Whose bad idea was this?
The new law restricting food trucks is unreasonable. I am a 25-year Silverlake resident and have worked in Los Angeles for that whole period.
Due to the hectic pace of work, my ability to get a meal at all has often depended on those trucks, and this is no frivolous comment - and they often have to be there for a couple hours. A lot of hard working people rely on those trucks to make their hectic schedules work out.
It is basically unfair to so limit them because they provide a very socially beneficial service.
As you know, in LA just driving or walking to a restaurant can “eat up” a good portion of your lunch hour. Also, morning and evening traffic in Los Angeles often brings commuters to a choice between adequate sleep and an adequate breakfast. Taco trucks make it so you can have an okay meal come to you when you just don’t have time to go eat.
The cultural effect of these trucks is beneficial to this city. If you’ve never been to the truck for lunch you have missed one of the most truly endearing things about Los Angeles, and their food is inexpensive which is very important to many people now that the brilliant government regulatory sector has let rank frauds crash the economy again.
This law seems indecent. I see no epidemic of restaurant failures coupled to an overabundance of lunch trucks. For that reason, I suspect that an unreasonable minority has pushed this law through to everyone else’s detriment.
Let’s be reasonable: what reasonable citizen has a big problem with lunch trucks? Restaurant owners…and that’s maybe about it. Their only reasonable claim should be that perhaps the trucks shouldn’t be closer than a half block or a block from an OPEN restaurant or something, but they don’t have a reasonable claim beyond that.
I seriously want those trucks available and I know my neighbors and co-workers do also.
The restauranteurs aren’t going to bring their restaurant to where I’m working and get me in and out the door in 9 minutes and make me go find my own table, chair and bathrooms, so they aren’t even offering the same service.
Taco trucks have been at it for so many years and served so many people in LA that they should have an easement to continue largely as before, just like ice cream trucks. Or are we going to let Baskin Robbins and Haagen-Dasz suppress ice cream trucks? I want Taco trucks to remain as before.
Thank you,
James Balsam
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
this is ludacrous!
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
we want taco trucks! yay!
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
LA ain’t LA with taco wagons.
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
tacos rule.
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Los Angeles is nothing without them!
on April 19th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I want to buy food from my favorite taco truck:
The one that is open.
on April 19th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Take the Taco Truck out of LA? That would be idiotic!
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Taco trucks are a huge part of LA Culture. Please don’t take them away from an increasingly homogenized society. Plus, all those workers that don’t need to leave their jobsite because the food comes to them, think about that. Allowing people to put more time into work, brings in more tax dollars, right? Leave TacoTrucks alone!!!
on April 19th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I realize important politicians and county officials hardly need to patronize them, but how could we possibly be persecuting Taco Trucks!? LA’s own native contribution to street food and city culture, know and appreciated the world over.
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
The taco truck is one of the few things i still love about L.A. Please don’t try to put them out of business.
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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on April 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
We need our taco trucks!
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I need my tacos!
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Completely ridiculous and unfair - I urge you to repeal this law immediately.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:17 am
signed.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:35 am
i need my fucken tacos.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Please spend our tax dollars, time and effort on more productive matters.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:00 am
i love me some taco truckz!
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I wonder what the actual aim of this initiative is. Run out all taco trucks and replace them with starbucks vans?
on April 20th, 2008 at 4:06 am
TACO ZONE ON ALVARADO @ SUNSET!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:42 am
gotta eat!
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
so important to the character of our city! please don’t destroy this tradition.
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Taco Trucks are a national tresure of Los Angeles. Banning taco truck would be a travesty to Los Angeles culture. Don’t turn our whole city into a mini-mall.
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Don’t let Taco trucks, the better alternative to fast food joints, become the scapegoats for a tanking economy. The restaurants will survive, but once the Taco trucks are gone, they’re gone for good.
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:02 am
With our shrinking economy, a recession looming here are people attempting to make a living in a country in flux. If the restaraunt is serving a quality product it will survice. The taco truck is providing a service to our community, isn’t what this country is all about?
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Here’s how the Board of Supervisors meeting went :
“Um, since we’re too chicken to take on Graft, LA Unified, Transportation, or any other topic relevant to the people of Los Angeles, we’ve got to look like we’re tough on something! Let’s go to Chipotle and discuss it further”.
Ms. Molina ~ it’s time to assimilate back the other way!
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:22 am
save tacos & small businesses
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
This is just another way to harrass people. Our representatives are supposed to protect us not conspire to further reduce our freedoms. Thank the Lord for taco trucks which provide good food at a decent price.
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Please do not punish the entrepreneurs who were intelligent and resourceful enough to provide our communities with convenient, low priced, delicious alternatives to the other restaurants in town. There are certainly more important issues to focus on (like education funding) than driving these people from the markets, which demand and adore them.
Thank You
Emily Marshall
Long time taco truck devotee.
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:39 am
please save the taco trucks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I’m pleased to see that the City of Los Angeles has successfully addressed/eliminated all the major/minor crimes that have, for so long, plagued that fabulous city, so that the City Council can now address such pressing quality of life matters as a taco truck sitting in one spot for more than an hour.
BRAVO, City Council of Los Angeles! Bravo for showing the rest of the United States “how it’s done”!
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I will never vote for Gloria Molina now, or in the future, in whatever she runs for.
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am
When there are nightly shoots out in the neighborhood, and the people that live across the street are selling drugs, Supervisor Molina wants to champion the non-issue of taco truck regulation. They are not a blight on the community, they bring the community together and define the Latin flavor of Highland Park and NELA. Could this be in issue of the trucks not paying the city money? As a politician, Ms. Molina should learn to pick her battles, and as a Highland Park resident I know that there are many more pressing issues in this area than late night snacks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:37 am
why are you picking on taco trucks? what did they ever do to you?
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:41 am
save pasadena taco trucks please
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Good lord, if they eliminate the taco trucks (they won’t!), what is next?! Please don’t let it be the chili fruit stands…
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:58 am
IM STRICTLY ON THE CARNE ASADA DIET AND TAKING THE TACO TRUCKS AWAY WILL BE A BIG PROBLEM.
***QUE VIVA LA RAZA!!***
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am
MY MOM FEEDS ME TACOS EVERY NOW AND THEN!!
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I LOVE TACOS
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am
What agenda does County Supervisor Gloria Molina have. Who is paying this person? Does she not serve the community? Allow people to make their own choices. “Land of the free” remember…
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Taco Trucks build community, make streets safer, and fill my tummy for cheap. They are a valued part of our urban landscape — support them, don’t outlaw them!
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Perhaps there’s a compromise that works for everyone?
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
VIVA LA RAZA and Taco trucks
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
What’s LA without taco trucks?
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:13 am
This is a joke right?
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:21 am
An important point that I think is being missed in this conversation (and what I wrote in my letter to the supervisor):
“Particularly important to me is the fact that these mobile businesses are a way that many people can see the entrepreneurial spirit in action and become inspired.”
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Don’t do it. I was born and raised in LA. These taco trucks are an LA icon. It’s what I look forward to when I’m visiting from New York.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am
ear Supervisor Molina,
I am writing to express serious concern regarding the actions you have taken against the taco trucks in our neighborhoods. As a member of the Eastside community, I greatly value our local street vendors–for their food, service, and especially culture.
Taco trucks fill many voids left by traditional restaurants, whether it is more authentic, better food, better hours, or cheaper prices. Furthermore, taco trucks create a sense of community on the streets that enclosed, “brick-and-mortar” stores cannot.
Taco trucks are a special and unique facet of East Los Angeles, and something that I cherish about my neighborhood.
I urge you to withdraw your proposal, and instead focus on the more pressing and detrimental issues that are facing our community.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am
save the tacos.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Seriously, I’ve been teaching in East Los Angeles for ten years and I know how much the taco trucks mean to the people of Boyle Heights and to those of us who frequent them on a daily basis.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am
save our tacos
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I hired a taco truck to cater my wedding reception. I feel lucky to live somewhere where the streets are lively with families of diners and shoppers.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Save the trucks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
i grew up on los angeles taco trucks, and losing a reliable neighborhood taco truck is like losing a member of the family!
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Imposing yet more regulations on the business activity of lunch trucks leads to more expensive food, reduces the ability for small entrepreneurs to make a living, and makes our lives more inconvenient. This unnecessary penalty also will harm a tradition that makes our city great.
Why add to the numerous laws and regulations that we have to deal with day to day? Any conceivable problem that a lunch truck might cause can be easily mitigated by members of local communities and law enforcement.
Given our current economic climate, this is also not the time to limit options for business people and their customers.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
you can’t take away the part of los angeles that thrives with culture. If anything stop building fast food chains.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I Like Tacos!
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Mexican Word of the Day: WAFER
I wanted to go to East LA to eat tacos with my friends, pero los mensos didn’t “WAFER” me.
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
VIVA LA RAZA
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
y
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Food of the people, by the people, and for the people!
on April 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
We think the county has better things to work on than trying to shut down taco trucks. Shame on you Gloria.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
These taco trucks are fixtures in the l.a. landscape.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Tacos! Tacos! Tacos!
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
What’s the point of this? Are LA restaurants behind it, trying to stop competition?
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
F*ck the Man! Eat tacos!
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
save the trucks
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
10 year resident of Los Angeles. The cells in my body are by now at least one-fourth composed of asada from taco trucks. Why the hell anyone would even suggest dispensing with this wonderful and delicious tradition is entirely beyond me. Be very angry, and refuse to accept this.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
the taco trucks are an integral part of the food scene in this town. you talk to any of the food critics and they’ll agree. this is a silly idea.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Keep um’ rollin’
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Tacos are good. Save the trucks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Leave our taco trucks alone!
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
It’s a terrible idea to ban Taco Trucks! Aside from being a terrific part of Our Town’s cultural history, they’re a vibrant part of street life, and the LA culinary scene!
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
screw the law..just another example of creeping socialism, fascism, communism, religious fundamentalism, etc…the country’s going broke. we need cheap, good food on wheels..
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
competition is a good thing - and taco trucks win because they provide great food at low cost with friendly service. if the city wants to help out restaurant owners, they should look for a positive method of encouragement rather than a negative means of shutting down people’s livelihood.
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Stupid idea to ban Taco Trucks! Doesn’t Gloria Molina know they’re one of the 64 Best Things About Los Angeles, according to LA MAgazine?
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Limiting or denying The Public access to Tacos is a crime. Taquerias, mobile or otherwise, should be REQUIRED on every city block. Indeed, how can humanity proceed with its quest for the perfect taco without these chariots of tortilla-wrapped deliciousness??
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Please, please, please, hear my hunger! This is one Chino who is in full support of these taco vending angels from heaven.
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Go after something/someone that is hurting the community. Taco trucks bring joy and they have good business because not only are they affordable, but delicious too!!!!
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
wtf…no bueno
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Do these people just get bored and think of more ways to fuck up our city? How about focusing on something else? Like education being practically non-existent and how we can fix that.
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Taco trucks, and the sense of community, local entrepreneurship and civic pride that they create are all a vital part of Los Angeles street culture. Something tells me that Ms. Molina cares not about these things, nor is a frequent patron of these culinary paradises themselves (as is so often the case with anyone wanting to inexplicably restrict or ban something this innocuous). Please focus your attention and our tax dollars on issues that truly affect the citizens of our city and get your meddlesome fingers out of my carne asada burrito. Regards.
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What would fotify the bar-going citezens of Los Angeles for the dubious 2AM drive home?
How will tourism in Los Angeles survive if the ‘taco tour’ buses from Hollywood and Disneyland cease to operate?
on April 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
taco trucks are the only thing open late night where I am from, and so they have be come a cultural norm for me and my age group. Its really terrible and pathetic to block these restaurants from providing taco’s.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
If The Owners Of The Restaurant Didn’t Want Their clients To Leave And Go Eat At That Taco Truck Then Maybe They Should Make Better Food!
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Growing up my entire life in the eastern outskirts of Los Angeles county, I thought I had it all in terms of food. Then that fateful day when I left my family for the dark foreboding streets of East LA and found enlightenment in the form of a taco truck open at 3am serving tacos al pastor. Please Molina: think of the drunkards.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
TACO TRUCKS = JUSTICE!
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Viva la taco truck!
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Don’t take a way a part of the L.A. culture. These taco trucks not only represent great food, but a part of what the L.A. experience is- a POSITIVE one.
Don’t take away jobs. Don’t shut down this part of the economy.
Don’t take away our taco trucks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
stop this shit!
we all love tacos
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Save delicious & reliable late night eating!
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Taco trucks are one of the most unique and delicious aspects of Los Angeles. The food is often better and more authentic than anywhere else in town, and the fact that they are wide-spread in residential neighborhoods makes them easy to walk to and probably cuts down on pollution from people sitting in drive-throughs with their engines idling. Los Angeles would not be the same city without them.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Save part of our Angeleno culture. Without taco trucks readily available, I’d have to hop into my car, wasting gas, time, and money… to drive to a different part of the city to eat my lunch.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Save the taco trucks. Salven las taquerias motorizadas.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I’d like to know the motivation behind this rule that to us seems so idiotic.
on April 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Street food is an important and historic part of LA!
on April 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
catering trucks are a necessity in a city that is really a suburb
on April 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I am originally from LA. I now live in Oregon. I am a devoted regular at my favorite taco truck here in Medford. They make wonderful tacos. Taco trucks across the country are daily serving an amazing lunch and providing a living for the people that work so hard inside them. Save the taco trucks!!!
on April 20th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Please save our trucks: make our home more livable, not less.
on April 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Mmmm tacos…
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
One of the main reasons I travel is to experience food culture in other parts of the world. I’m originally from Boston, now living in Tokyo. I’ve been planning a visit to California as I’ve never been, and hearing this news disappoints me. I’m a huge taco and burrito fan, and there’s nothing I would like to try more than food from one of these trucks. Street food, in all my travels, is always the best, most authentic rendition of local food. Not only is it loaded with flavor, but often times loaded with local tradition and culture. It would be a shame if these trucks were removed before my visit. I was unaware of their existence before planning my trip but now they are on my list of things to see and experience.
Alas America, drowning it’s own beautiful culture by dowsing it with poorly written laws and corporate food chains. Is there really any point in visiting if all that’s left after this law is passed is a Taco Bell and Wendy’s? I hate American fast food, but I LOVE real American street food culture.
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
How is this keeping us safe? Leave the taco trucks alone and let us retain SOME freedom of choice.
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
You’ll eventually take the angeles out of this city… leave it alone. Focus on the real problems, please.
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I am shocked that Gloria Molina would support this measure. I am so disappointed. This is so unamerican.
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
What a petty, nasty thing to do to people bringing affordable and often scrumptious eats to under-served communities. For shame. Save the trucks!
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
These trucks are an institution — and need to keep on rollin’
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Please save my midnight snacks!
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I love East LA Tacos!
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
You can have my tacos and burritos after you cut my heart out, most respected madam supervisor.
Epithet, epithet, epithet. Followed by a really nasty epithet.
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
unbelievable
on April 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
forcing taco trucks to move every half hour is a needless waste of gas!! and besides, how am i supposed to find leo’s if they’re constantly going to be on the move?
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I don’t live in LA, let alone America. I’m from New Zealand and I think this decision sucks. I couldn’t agree more that there are more pressing issues the community should be dealing with. And even on a long list of potentially pressing community issues, I can’t even see a reason as to why ‘taco trucks’ should even be on such a list.
I expect nothing less than riots in response to this. I will be keeping an eye on the news. Don’t let me down, yanks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
It’s stupid how they are focusing on taco trucks but not on the real issues that are a problem to Los Angeles
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Taco trucks can stay!
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Wow Gloria, are you trying to commit political suicide?
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Repeal this ridiculous law, Gloria!
You know you like a good taco truck meal…
on April 20th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Repeal this ridiculous law, Gloria!
YOU KNOW YOU LIKE A GOOD TACO TRUCK TACO!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
save the trucks!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I can not fathom (beyond bureaucratic greed) why any council member could even consider forcing the taco trucks out of our neighborhood. It’s embarrassing and shameful to even consider taking away this last truly authentic LA experience. Unlike NYC, restaurants here close so early these trucks supply an essential service - in addition they offer culinary & social treasures to the multi-ethnic residents and tourists of our Eastside homeland. Do you have no concept that it is often the taco trucks themselves that bring local and national tourists to into these Eastside areas (ask Google, New York Times, Chowhound, etc.)? It hardly seems smart to decrease visitation to these areas and make the nighttime streets desolate again like in the gangsta 90s by discouraging the pedestrian traffic that surrounds these oases. Surely there is another way to generate the tons of cash you envision getting rather than punishing these hardworking people and we citizens who count on and love them!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
As a long time resident in Los Angeles now living in florida I support NOT enacting these regulations against Taco Trucks.
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
This is crazy!! There are thousands of more pressing issues that you politicians should be addressing. Tacos trucks are a special part of our neighorbood. Please withdrawl this petty restriction and focus your energy on something more important.
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I thought Texas laws were ridiculous but banning Taco Trucks!!??!? I sure hope this idea doesn’t spread to Texas, we love our taco trucks too!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
i think la should focus on real issues like getting rid of heidi montag.
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Please don’t take my TACOS EL GALLITO and al pastor burritos from me!!! It’s one of my favourite things about Pasedena!!!
on April 20th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
please do not take our tacos away.
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
ILOVE EL MATADOR!!! It’s my favorite tac0 truck!
And I like them all… they are so uniquely “Los Angeles”…I’ve written about them extensively in my book, “The Underground Guide To Los Angeles”, which spent nine weeks on the LA Times Best Sellers List.
Thank you,
Pleasant Gehman
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Here’s the letter I sent:
Dear Supervisors Molina and Antonovich,
I am a Pasadena resident of 10 years, and a lover of LA’s indigenous street food: the ubiquitous taco truck. I was very upset to run across the recent LA Times articles describing the new penalties taco trucks face for engaging in their business:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taco16apr16,1,4570192.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tacotruck14apr14,0,4600263.story
I was even more upset to see that the supposed reasoning behind the change in the law was that the trucks compete “unfairly” with stationary brick-and-mortar businesses. They certainly do compete, and their food is cheaper, because their costs are lower. That’s not cheating, that’s capitalism at its best.
I don’t want to be forced to head into a sit-down restaurant just to get a decent snack, and the areas the taco trucks serve are often devoid of late-night eateries. Beyond that, they are a part of LA culture - a part that I value. I believe that plentiful street food is a sign of a healthy city, and part of what defines and differentiates our urban centers. The taco trucks are also one of the few aspects of LA that I feel really caters to non-automotive traffic. As a pedestrian and an urban cyclist, I will especially miss the trucks if they go. I also will not increase my spending on restaurant food. Taco truck tacos are one of the few times I feel that eating out is actually worth the money.
Sincerely,
Zane Selvans
(A white, educated, middle-class guy who can’t speak nearly as much Spanish as he would like)
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
God save the taco trucks!
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Why do the County Supervisors always want to ruin the best things about LA? First Beyond Baroque had to engage in a crazy battle to remain in its current location, now this?? HOW ABOUT FOCUSING ON SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT, LIKE CONTROLLING THE PAPPARAZZOES,WHO CAUSE TRAFFIC JAMS, ACCIDENTS, AND ARE A REAL NUISANCE???
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
My God!!!! What sane person would ban taco trucks?? Tacos are so good and cheap, please save the taco trucks, if not for us, for our children!
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
SAVE THE TRUCKS!
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Could you imagine if you couldn’t get a knish on the streets of NY?
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
taco trucks keep los angeles alive and kicking,they provide good cheap food and a social access to others and keep the moms and pops cooking, real food for the hard working real people.
on April 20th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
This is a travesty for those who own the truck’s livliehoods, and for those who frequent them. What could possibly be your motive for such an inane piece of legislation? Spend your time on things that matter Supervisor Molina.
Thank you,
John LAbine
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Eat Tacos
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
This is just idiotic!
on April 20th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
I can’t believe the most pressing issue in town is Taco trucks. It’s beyond ridiculous!
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Leave it to Gloria Molina to ruin everything!
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Let the taco trucks live!
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
this is outrageous. like many have mentioned above, there are more pressing issues facing our communities (can anyone say hospital closures?).
taco trucks are an integral part of l.a. let’s keep it that way!
on April 20th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
why are you doing this?
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
con razon la gente se rie de nuestra ciudad, si los temas que tenemos pendientes por arreglar son las taco trucks..
get real ! por favor.
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
what are you thinking? i’ve been a musician in this town for 25 years, and taco trucks have always been a quick meal before and a good hang after the show. when my my wife was pregnant, she’d get a craving for tacos al pastor, and we’d have to go find a taco truck in the middle of the night to get them for her.
dave mcsparran
on April 20th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
This is our culture. Don’t tear apart our city.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:11 am
With all of the pressing issues that need to be addressed in this city, I am beyond dumbfounded that taco trucks warrant the allotment of so many of our city’s spare and precious resources. The time alone simply to patrol and monitor taco trucks, the bureaucratic costs involved in levying and collecting fines against the proprietors, and the unnecessary burdens on the already grossly overcrowded county jail and legal system make this legislation appear to be in absolute opposition to the well being and success of Los Angeles and its residents. My taxpayer dollars would surely be put to better use elsewhere.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am
save our taco trucks! paleeze…
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:32 am
To those who would go to the trouble of legislating and policing against great affordable food and beloved cultural icons that do nothing but make people feel good: have you never gotten your hands deliciously greasy at midnight devouring tasty morsels in the good company of the people of LA? Honestly, I think I need to go into business providing safety deposit boxes for you so that you will at least have somewhere to put your souls before you enter the boardroom.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:02 am
As mentioned above by many, I think L.A. has a plethora of other issues to deal with so I think it’s kind of pathetic that I have to sign a petition to keep taco trucks around, as if that’s our biggest problem. But also like many, I would be incredibly disappointed to see the taco trucks be a thing of the past. With that said, if we have a voice on who parks on our streets, which are public space, and the general public feels it is an adored and cherished asset to our community, then City Council should do it’s civil duty and listen to the public. It would be a huge disservice to the community and us patrons who adore these alternative venues that provide delicious, inexpensive and authentic food at all hours while adding much needed culture, a memory.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:13 am
Taco trucks are a part of the LA community and culture. These new laws are outrageous.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:21 am
Taco trucks are a muy rico.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:45 am
A Canadian Gringo signs on. Plus, I would like to sign the petition to bring Taco Trucks to Canada!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:37 am
Best of luck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:13 am
The simple reason the trucks should be preserved is for the people who _depend_ on them every day for their food.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:49 am
viva la troca !
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:10 am
Re they trying to kill everything good about LA or What ?
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:47 am
This is ridiculous! Taco Trucks and the people running them are kings among men
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
One of the reasons we visit L.A.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:04 am
They feed tens of thousands of people everyday. The demand is high enough to justify that they remain in business.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:22 am
don’t hate on the tacos or the taco makers!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:30 am
The taco trucks have some of the best food I have ever eaten. The food still has the ‘love’cooked in. Think of all the poverty you will be bringing to the owners of the trucks,and their famalies.Don’t you think our economy is hurting enough already?
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am
Don’t f*ck with my trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am
I survived for four years eating primarily from a taco truck, and I have yet to find better authentic mexican food elsewhere. Don’t eliminate these vital parts of the southern california economy.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am
Wow! I can not believe that a law would be passed to where someone who is not stealing, can not make a living the legitimate way! What the law makers should be doing is getting the drugs off the steets and the graffiti off the walls! PLEASE LEAVE THE TACO TRUCKS/MAKERS ALONE!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Taco trucks are one of the best parts of living in LA. How about focusing on some more important issues like crime, education, poverty, or helping the homeless.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Don’t get rid of my taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Save the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:59 am
Don’t take my taco truck! They’re the only place to eat after 9:00 in my neighborhood! Their food is good and cheap!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:03 am
The real crooks are the taco bells and the burger kings. They unlawfully poison our kids and create visual pollution throughout the city.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am
$1000 fine is insane! and if restrain LA culture and traditions, you kill the very essence of this city
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Don’t do this to LA!! taco trucks are truly the best mexican food in town. especially with cost of leaving rising we still can depend on good, inexpensive food. They already abide with health dept. codes!! what is the problem here!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:10 am
It is a shame that this is happening.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:15 am
Taco trucks are an integral part of LA culture. Don’t take it away from us!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Save the taco trucks! It’s one of my favorite parts of LA!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:26 am
Every great city has its great street food. Would NY be NY without its hot dog stands? Well, LA wouldn’t be LA without its taco trucks. Don’t make our city a place NOT to visit by making it utterly homogeneous and forgettable.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Getting rid of taco trucks in LA is like NY getting rid of the hot dog vendor! SAVE THE TACO TRUCKS!!! SI SE PUEDE!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am
The trucks are a vital part of our neighborhood. Please repeal this law.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:34 am
Please repeal this law immediately.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:36 am
Save our sidewalk culture
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
Taco trucks are an important and beloved aspect of our neighborhoods’ culture.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:49 am
Taco trucks are not only integral to LA’s food culture, they provide income to many hard working families!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am
I can’t picture LA as LA without the taco trucks. Please repeal the law.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
Tacos are good!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
why don’t worry about getting rid of meth instead of tacos…..I’m an adult and perfectly capable of deciding where I want to eat - and I like taco trucks and stands.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:58 am
I have a big family to support!!!!!
I own a taco truck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am
Tacos forever!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am
Come on Gloria its about helping the latino’s… not bringing us down!!! Si se puede i arriba mi Los Angeles querido…
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am
Taco Trucks fill a vital role in our community by providing good food at even better prices. Not only that, they are a vital part of our Angelino culture. Taking them out is like taking out the Dodger Dog from Dodger Stadium.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
I need it!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:05 am
I like and would like taco trucks to stay where they are.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Gloria Molina should be ashamed at her self. I wonder who’s special interest she is supporting? It does not matter. She should know that this is a capitalistic free enterprise country and her kind aren’t welcome. “Taco trucks live on”!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:07 am
It’s be a crime against all Angelenos to take away the best and most authentic representation of their food.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:11 am
The trucks are affordable and profitable, they increase wealth for local entrepeneurs. They serve healthy family recipes which both preserve and propagate local culture. If they are further limited, less healthy cheap foods will exploit their market.. places like fast food chains and convenience/liquor stores will sell more burgers and candy. The trucks encourage people to get outdoors for a walk and even use public parks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
This law will cause Carnage Asada to LA culture.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
The more tacos available the better off for everyone.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Get your hands off of my tacos!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
Street food is an important aspect of a community’s every day life, they need to stay!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
Is this not the land of the free?
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Speaking as a recent returnee to LA, the taco trucks are my favorite part of the city. They uniquely define LA’s culture, and the city would be much worse without them.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
save our taco trucks!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:34 am
Save the tacos! and the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:35 am
yum
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:35 am
Can’t live without my tacos.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:38 am
Viva la tacos!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Patroling this sham of a law will be a wonderful use of the five-hundred something new police officers LA is hiring.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
viva la taco!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:42 am
in loving memory of “el capitan”, whittier blvd. cira 1998. save the taco truck!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am
Dios mio man
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am
Leave the taco trucks alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am
Taco Trucks = Los Angeles.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am
I eat from a taco truck several times a week. The food is great. It is quite inexpensive. The community gathered around the truck is the best.
Si se puede!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:49 am
I think these restrictions are racist and classist. Repeal them NOW!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
I love Taco Trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Dear Supervisor Molina,
I am writing to express serious concern regarding the actions you have taken against the taco trucks in our neighborhoods. As a member of the Eastside community, I greatly value our local street vendors–for their food, service, and especially culture.
Taco trucks fill many voids left by traditional restaurants, whether it is more authentic, better food, better hours, or cheaper prices. Furthermore, taco trucks create a sense of community on the streets that enclosed, “brick-and-mortar” stores cannot.
Taco trucks are a special and unique facet of East Los Angeles, and something that I cherish about my neighborhood.
I urge you to withdraw your proposal, and instead focus on the more pressing and detrimental issues that are facing our community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Aren’t there far more pressing matters that the LA County Board of Supervisors should be attending to? This is ridiculous.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:55 am
These new policies will negatively change the culture of LA streets and neighborhoods.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:59 am
long live the taco truck!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:59 am
Dios mio, man
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:59 am
Claiming that the trucks put restaurants out of business is not a reason to put the trucks out of business. How about letting the best taco win?
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:59 am
my family owns a taco truck, and to take a away a family’s income is outrageous. If Molina really cared for her community, she would realize she is doing more harm than good
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
save our taco trucks please!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am
I need my tacos. Don’t deny me.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am
tacos!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:07 am
This is capitalism at its worst. You tell me another place I can get a taco that tastes awesome for a dollar.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:09 am
save our taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am
I wish we had taco trucks in Michigan!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am
Taco trucks are a Los Angeles institution deserving preservation.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:12 am
Let me know when the sit-ins start, I’ll sacrifice myself for el pastor and carnitas.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Save our cultural heritage! Save the trucks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:20 am
This is an OUTRAGE. Taco trucks provide a very valuable service to me. As someone who rides a bus two hours home to work right now, it is helpful for me to have food vendors on my walk from the bus stop to home. I don’t have time to sit in a restaurant.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
It’s a pretty simple problem, restaurants. You want me to stop eating at the trucks, then stop serving sub-standard food. I mean, would you pay ten dollars for food worth only half that? There’s a reason everyone goes to the trucks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Even librarians think Gloria Molina is a dumb-ass.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
saaaave sonia and leeeo and ramboooooo
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
PLEASE!! Keep the taco trucks!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
In a country where competition is king for the government to take sides (the Restaurants )is hypocritical.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
this needs to end.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
No es justo lo que esta pasando. no solo nos dan de comer, tambien con su trabajo suportan a sus familas! RESISTE!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am
All the great cities of the world offer travelers and locals alike the opportunity to experience the local culture through street food. Often times this food is much more representative of the real culture than any gourmet restaurant, cheaper, and usually better tasting too. Taco trucks are about the only street food available in LA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
This is absurd. Stop the madness!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Save the taco trucks, POR FAVOR!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
This is clearly another form of hateful persecution. Note to Gloria Molina: stop making L.A. such an embarrasment!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
they’re making a living like everyone else.. no need to put more people out of business.. it’s bad enough our economy is going down.. !
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Why go after these particular vendors like this? As long as they are licensed, inspected, and obey all laws I don’t see why they can’t deliver the goodness! Maybe there can be a compromise on the time, one hour seems too short, maybe make it 4 hours, just move for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
VIVA LOS TACO TRUCKS!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am
For one thing, its a no brainer. Taco trucks are part of the scheme of our community. It is a service to its citizens and its part of our cultural fabric. Due to capitalism, the food industry is one of the leading profitable enterprises; particularly restaurants. To transition the fate of our taco trucks is uprooting a dependable source for our daily lives. It would be detrimental on a large scale for our Angelinos. It is afterall, engraved in our city’s culture. We need to press on real life issues. issues that affect individuals and not for corporate greed. Politicians need to stop eating out in opulant style, and embrace the “Taco truck culture” maybe this would really stimulate our economy in a positive way”.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am
Gloria Molina is a fool and wholly out of touch. Taco Trucks are easily one of my favorite things about Los Angeles. Imposing stricter fines is moronic and mean-spirited against hard-working Angelenos who deserve better. Save the Taco Trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!
LEO’S TACO TRUCK IN EAGLE ROCK #1
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
Viva Los Taco Trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Way to wage war on the lower class. As an employee for the City of LA who’s citizens pay your salary, you have done a huge disservice to those that got you elected. I hope that when you are hungry at 1 am and you find no restaurants around, there will be a Taco truck to service you, and in that moment you appreciate what a god send they are.
I don’t know who blackened your soul Gloria, but may god have mercy upon them.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
I live on the Westside and I can’t get by without my trusty taco truck that hangs out down the block from me. Don’t ban this staple of Los Angeles life!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:48 am
I’m crying as i sign this petition. I put Freddy’s Taco Truck as my hero on my Myspace. He can’t be my hero if he’s not there.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:51 am
First they came for the taco trucks …
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
L.A. is known nationwide as a place where you can find excellent Mexican food in the strangest places — the taco trucks are a big part of that culture! And making the trucks move regularly will only increase pollution, gas use and traffic. Don’t ban the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
If the Board’s concern is that these business owners are not paying the same taxes and overhead as brick and mortar restaurant owners, then there should be incentives put in place for community economic development that would allow these entrepeneurs to open their own restaurants. Punitive measures are not the answer, and don’t help anyone. They punish these small immigrant owned businesses and the communities they serve, and overload the legal system with unnecessary prosecutions.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
This can not happen!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
Mexicans selling food is NOT a crime. Stop cracking down on hard working folks in society and start putting tax money where it counts, towards a better public transportation system. free the tacos! go metro!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:59 am
Taken from the sample letter…
“I urge you to withdraw your proposal, and instead focus on the more pressing and detrimental issues that are facing our community.”
Indeed!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
“I urge you to withdraw your proposal, and instead focus on the more pressing and detrimental issues that are facing our community.”
Amen!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Gloria, you have betrayed your name and afflicted the people. Repent and repeal!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Dear Mrs. Molina,
Please let the trucks stay. They are an important part of our city.
Thank You,
Ryan Conder
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
save our street tacos.
shout out to La Estrella on Figueroa and Meridian.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Gloria, you have betrayed your name and afflicted the people. Repent and repeal!
“I urge you to withdraw your proposal, and instead focus on the more pressing and detrimental issues that are facing our community.”
If the Board’s concern is that these business owners are not paying the same taxes and overhead as brick and mortar restaurant owners, then there should be incentives put in place for community economic development that would allow these entrepeneurs to open their own restaurants. Punitive measures are not the answer, and don’t help anyone. They punish these small immigrant owned businesses and the communities they serve, and overload the legal system with unnecessary prosecutions.
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L.A. is known nationwide as a place where you can find excellent Mexican food in the strangest places — the taco trucks are a big part of that culture! And making the trucks move regularly will only increase pollution, gas use and traffic. Don’t ban the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I live in Boyle Heights and I think its unfair to the hardworkers that own and operate the trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
This is completely unnecessary
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I eat from a different truck every day. I have my favorites. Heck, the food channel has been celebrating the taco trucks lately. Get with it and go get some tacos and chill.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Leave the trucks alone. It would make sense if, perhaps, they COULD NOT park within 200 feet of a restaurant, and had to submit to country restaurant inspections and carry the letter grade card. Beyond that, don’t mess with free enterprise.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
LA is not LA without a community taco truck
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
save the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
This a tradition that you can’t take away!! Come on GloMo you know you ate tacos growing up. This is part of our culture and what feeds us working class. Sorry if we can’t afford a fancy dinner at Spago’s like all of you up at City Hall. The raza works hard and now you want to bring us down!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I live in Boyle Heights and it is an outrage to hear that this will be occuring to our community!!! These people have the right to maitain their own bussiness, so why should one feel that they have the right to take ther business away from them!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
If the restaurants in Echo Park served tacos as good as those served by the TACO ZONE truck on Alvarado, I would gladly eat at them and sit down comfortably. But this truck provides a service and goods that are better than the surrounding competition, so I value their continued existence at a location that I can depend on.
In an era of rising rents, it seems unfair to limit the community’s ability to adapt to them.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Taco Trucks are the best.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Save the Taco Trucks!! We did in denver!! LA needs the Taco Trucks. Tell them to concentrate on something else!! VIVA the TACO TRUCKS!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
L.A. is not L.A. without Taco Trucks. They are not just somethin’ we can get rid of and forget. THey have been a part of my life ever since i was a kid and I still support them till this day!
Fight for the cause, Support your local Taco truck by eating there, everyday if you can.
ONE TACO CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
love tacos and the taco trucks. Let’s keep’em coming!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
love them!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
We need ‘em!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
There’s plenty of public policy out there to be working on…
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Gloria Molina: You don’t run this city, we the people do!!! OBEY US!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
We the people vote you in, we the people VOTE u OUT!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I can’t imagine LA without taco trucks - it would be a tragedy to banish them!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
There are much more important things that we should be focusing on. Leave the Taco Trucks alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
taco trucks are a part of my daily life. please don’t take them away.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Taco trucks are part of LA culture and should not be banned.
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Please don’t do this
The people running the taco trucks are just trying to make a living like the rest of us, by having them move every hour this will inveterately eliminate them and what will they do then?
Think about what you are doing
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
This is rediculous. Why would anybody have a problem with competition??
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Save our taco trucks!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
If they take away the taco trucks from us now they’re gonna wanna take the taco away too!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I mean the taco lady too!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I do not understand why the ordinance was passed. This seems like a dumb law design to interfere with the law supply and demand. We are in Los Angeles. We are mobile. We need mobile food. Hello?
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
She just didn’t have anything better to do or she probably lives somewhere where the taco trucks bug her. Anyway, like Chris Gordon says, “we need mobile food”!
on April 21st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Wow. nothing better to do than pick on the taco trucks. Taco Zone forever….
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
i was raised on taco trucks and they are still a big part of my life
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Taco trucks bring such vitality and character to the neighborhoods they are found in, and it would be a shame to take this away in order to pander to a few restaurant owners. Note that many people choose to eat at taco trucks because their food tastes remarkably good!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Earning an honest living by selling tacos is not a crime. Plus it keeps plenty of Angelinos fed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Very soon I will be a student again. Taco truck dining factors heavily into my economic survival plan.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
where else am i going to get food after hours???
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
This would be a travesty!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Eliminate fast food chains that hijack our culture, NOT our taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Unnecessary!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
It’s the peoples choice to go to these taco trucks BOTTOM LINE. To constrict and contrict aside the fact is terribly wrong. Should we also eliminate drive-thru’s because they have an unfair advantage? Should we regulate hours so that every single restaurant should have the same fair hours? If you want fair you have to look at who you are being fair to instead of pleasing people who never frequent these trucks in the first place.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
taco trucks are the spirit of N/ELA
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Food trucks are also generating business…less than restaurants that can afford to pay monthly rent. Don’t take away food truck bussiness by making them relocate every 55 minutes. Plese consider showing more consistency in your decision/law making. Thank you, John
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Taco trucks are part of what LA great.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Where else do you get a quick bite to eat at 2:30 (Don’t say jack in the box..thats disgusting)?
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
thank you for your help
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
let taco trucks stay put!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
These trucks ARE LA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Save the taco truck!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
LA love’s its taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
If you put Taco Zone out of business I will lose my mind.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Save the trucks!!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The Ladies at Taco Zone are the best and are always friendly. I would go here before a resturant.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
It would be criminal to eliminate the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Please do not change the way taco trucks function…..This is a Los Angeles Culinary and cultural phenomenon that must be kept…it brings neighbors together!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Save our taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
.save the taco truck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Leave the Taco Trucks alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
we need tacos! the peope that run them work hard very long hours and to take their place of business away is cruel!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
L.A. without taco trucks is equal to L.A. without Hollywood, it’s such a crucial part of our culture! Plus it’s great, cheap food!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I love Taco Trucks! Keep them going. This law sounds like it’s designed to put them out of business. Surely we can address restaurant’s concerns without this draconian law.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Taco’s Rule!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Save the tacos!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
They come to job sites where workers only have 30 minutes for lunch. They are available late at night when restraunts are already closed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Please consider how much these taco trucks are a part of our Los Angeles community, especially on the east side of the city. The people that operate the trucks do a great service. We should embrace this unique tradition in our city and allow the operations to continue without the proposed limitations. It would be a very sad change if these restrictions are made. Keep the taco trucks!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Mariscos on 11th St. is my fav taco truck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
lame!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I LOVE TACOS!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
It’s not just food, it’s a part of our culture & community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
please keep the taco trucks on our streets!
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
The TacoTruck is the definition of Los Angeles street food. Without the TacoTruck, Los Angeles has no claim to being the place to find great street food against the likes of New York (pizza), Chicago (hot dogs) and the South (anything on a stick, deep fried).
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Taco trucks are local businesses too! And they make damn tasty food.
on April 21st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
DOWN WITH TACO TRUCK CRYBABIES!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
You can’t be serious?
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Yum Yum eat ‘em up! With the diminishing dollar, cheap eats are what we need.
I bet some of the heft Gloria has added on came from a taco truck. Go on a diet Gloria, and give us a break.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
not only should we keep all the taco trucks…we should replace all of the parking enforcement cars with taco trucks.
how pleasant would it be to come out to your car with a taco under your windshield wiper instead of a $$ticket$$.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pm
DONT YOU DARE!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
The taco trucks are a vital part of the food community in Los Angeles serving a large section of the population, across a multitude of economic, geographic and ethnic boundaries. It’s a unique example of the cultural diversity that makes Southern California such a wonderful place - the hard work & entrepreneurial spirit of the individuals who run these trucks should be supported and encouraged, not inhibited. Keep the Taco Truck Alive!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
save the tacos!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Taco Trucks. Por Vida.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Taco trucks bring people together and share a positive and delicious (and afforable)piece of culture with the entire community! Why would we want to inhibit that?
Long live the La Estrella truck at Fig and Meridian and all the rest!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
over regulation of small business is the problem with America. how are we to eat and they to feed their children with the government over regulating them… whats next? hot dog stands? no more bike ice-cream sales? business license for lemonade stands? how about regulating big business huh? like penalty’s for relaters that lie and stick people in loans they KNOW they will never pay off. how about regulating gas company’s to reduction before Americans have to choose between lunch or gas to get to their foreclosing home!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Taco Trucks are a huge part of the LA culture. And a great place to eat fantastic carne asada tacos for a good price. When I moved to NYC, one of the things I missed most were the taco trucks. Please, don’t take them away!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
No!!!! Not our taco trucks!!! Anything but my tacoooooossssss…
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
NO!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Taco trucks are apart of my earliest memories of life in L.A.
Its like taking away my little disney land…
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
please don’t abuse your power.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Are you running out of ways to keep enterprising, contributing, hard-working, valuable service-providing minorities down? What’s next; are you going to make them go live out on that big floating trash pile out in the middle of the ocean?
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The rationale for this community destructing action is mindless. Who is Gloria Molina really representing here?
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Gloria, seriously…what are you trying to prove? How do the trucks create a problem? Long live LA ESTRELLA and those late night munchies!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:30 pm
It’s not right!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:30 pm
save them!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Gloria,
Please desist from your plan to eliminate taco trucks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Keep the Taco Trucks!!! Let them stay parked with no restrictions!! We want to eat at the Taco Trucks! One hour is not enough time! They’re not hurting anybody!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
this new law needs to be repealed… I agree with other petitioners Taco Trucks are part of the LA Culture!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Viva La Taco Truck!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I love taco trucks. It’s what makes that city great. Besides all the awesome things. But, the ears cannot say, i can live without the feet. We are all part of the body. I don’t mean to use a bible quote. It’s also from Deadwood.
Mucho Gracias!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Careful there Gloria!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Why on earth would you want to eliminate one of the few remaining friendly, mom & pop style services that not only offers up good food at great prices… but also adds to the cultural fabric and texture of Los Angeles?
Please don’t change the rules for the taco trucks we love, so that we don’t know how to find them!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
don’t chase away an LA institution!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This just seems like an unfair attack on hard working people. I am a big fan of these trucks. I see them a lot at construction sites that I work out of and want them to continue their service.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Taco trucks is one of the things that makes Los Angeles..Los Angeles!
I grew up around that kind of thing. And i cant imagine anything better.
It’s part of our culture and just the way we were brought up.
<33
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I love eating from these trucks on any day of the year. Don’t let a great source for a quick bite to eat for so many people be pushed out like we should be ashamed of it.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Save the carnitas!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
this is an OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm
regulations booooooooo, tacos yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I always want to own my own taco truck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
You should leave the trucks alone and worry about things that are really harming the community!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
this is ridiculous….what about us who can only afford to eat and the taco trucks?!?!? with restaurants raising prices because of rising food costs, rising gas prices, etc at least let us continue eating for cheap…
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Keep the taco trucks!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
They’re actually part of the L.A. mystique.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
leave the taco trucks alone, and focus on real issues facing los angeles.
on April 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Shouldn’t the government be more concerned with more important things? Instead they’re making a fuss over harmless taco trucks? Absolutely ridiculous. These trucks are many people’s livelihoods and these regulations are unreasonable, inappropriate and a nuisance. Taco Trucks never did anything but make people happy. Leave them be.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Please don’t take the Trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
this is a mistake. i know a lot of people as well as family/friends from outta town, who love LA for its taco trucks. without this special treat, many will be disappointed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
If they take the trucks away there will probably be the hungriest riots ever in LA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
unnecessary
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
This is some bullshit I cant believe they’re doing this. They’re only trying to make an honest buck.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
This is some bullshit I cant believe they’re doing this leave them alone.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Taco trucks and vendors are an integral part of Los Angeles…East, West, South, and everywhere in between. The cultural value these trucks bring are enormous to the city and help make Los Angeles what it is today—–A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE! The individuals who dont like them can move to Arkansas or someplace if they cant stand L.A, however with the LATINO population growing rapidly throghout the U.S, you might expect taco trucks everywhere!!! Move to Antarctica hahaa that might be your only hope…SAVE OUR TACO TRUCKS!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Leave my tacos alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Viva la taco truck!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
people need tacos
do not take away the taco trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Signed
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
WE NEED TO DEFEND OUR RIGHTS REGARDLESS
OF THE MISSION WHICH WILL HELP US SURPASS
THE CORRUPTION.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
OH DEAR…NOT ANOTHER SELL OUT TRYING TO OPRESS HER OWN PEOPLE…
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Taco trucks are NOT competition for most B&M restaurants. Mexican restaurants in most areas of the county still serve mediocre (or worse), excessively Americanized food for the price. Moreover, it is very hard to find non-fast-food restaurants open later than 9pm. If the trucks are licensed, let them be!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
save it!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Save our Taco Trucks!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Nothing is more Angelissimo than a taco truck!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
yummy yummy yummy
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
yummy yummy yummy best one is Taco zone on Alameda
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
i love the taco trucks!!!! they are too much of an integral part of LA.
you simply cannot GET taco truck food at most restaurants. taco trucks have better hours than restaurants, and better prices!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Can we please stop limiting the ways members of the Lower SES make money?
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
either trucks are allowed or i will start killing stray dogs and cats to make my own.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
save the tacos and save the world!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Okay, so now LOCAL government is going to join
the feds in crushing what’s left of small business…
not to mention food that remains affordable for
all of us middle class American’s suffering from
skyrocketing grocery and gasoline prices?
SHAME ON YOU.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
SAVE OUR TACOS!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
York Blvd…good eats.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Quite the money-driven action. I’m not for it
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Taqueros give the community a sense of community, where else do you see a bunch of people who don’t know each other getting along at 11pm?
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
This shouldn’t even be an issue.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I love the tacos from these trucks! Find something else to do with your time, city council people.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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on April 21st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Unbelievable, now we are attacking the culture of taco trucks–please focus your time on more pressing issues. War and violence, poverty, racism, sexism, need I go on???
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
please don’t take the taco trucks away
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
The Taco Trucks of LA provide an important, unique and DYNAMITE piece of Los Angeles street culture, and frankly the best Mexican food in town (and therefore in America!) is to be found there…everybody has their fave trucks and we all love to argue and compare notes. Don’t waste time, money and energy squelching one of the rare great things about living in LA!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Not sure what the beef is (?), but I support it! lol
Now support *MY* cause: Ending Male Genital Mutilation (MGM) in America! http://www.circumstitions.com/ “Circumcision *IS* evil!”
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I agree with all this should not be problem.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Instead of spending the time and tax dollars on trying to keep a few people down, why don’t we put that money to use and try fixing the problems with our schools? This isn’t about the taco trucks, this is about the city trying to find ways of avoiding the larger problems that they haven’t fixed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Taking away these trucks from us will further poverty in LA by taking away the livelihood of the taco-truck people and will eventually hurt the economy because the people in poverty will no longer put money into the economic system. This is so sad. I remember when Gloria Molina was a worthy Chicana. This just proves that she has been a let down to our people and our community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The gas is already high, and for the trucks to move every hour it will increase cost of not only gas to the owners needed but the cost of the food to the customers as well. Not to mention change of location will lose customers. This is unnecessary rule, how about making rules that every child should be feed breakfast, snack and lunch at school. Something more important the making people’s lives more difficult.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Did ya know that Taco Bell’s “taco meat” is just ONE (1) grade above cat food???!!! Google it! It’s a FACT!
http://wreckingboy.livejournal.com/318545.html
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Gloria, as you sit in your stupid office probably not giving a shit about any of this, how many taco trucks will YOU ever see in one day or night? How are these trucks ruining and obstructing YOUR life to point of elimination?? This is just such a petty matter. Seriously, its like, come on. There are far more important issues in LA than the fucking Taco trucks, which supply people with food that is far better than your disgusting fast food establishments. This is just one more way for the LA district and the police to make more money and you’re not fooling anyone. Why make life harder for those people already struggling? Your just making a really poor decision and not taking into consideration those who actually SUPPORT and PURCHASE food from these awesome people.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
the taco trucks are the yatai of los angeles. without them, we’d be cleveland.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
without the taco truck i wouldnt be able to eat during the work hours…if that happens i will go to your office and shit on your desk, miserable bored douche bags!
ima white guy
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
viva el taco truck!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Viva Pastor!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
don’t we have more important things to legislate than taco trucks?
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Da me cinco tacos de pastor con todo por favor. Gracias.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
leave the taco vendors alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
ditto on: don’t we have more important things to legislate than taco trucks?
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
selling drugs illegal fire arms fake ids are Illegal .. your trying to add TACOS to that list ///// LMAO …. Fuck it then im gonna have to start my Mafia and become a kingpin selling tacos illegaly.. ill be on the Most wanted list cause i give out free avocado with my tacos.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Taco trucks provide many jobs, and also provide access to good food at a fair price. An excellent alternative to high priced restaurants, and crappy fast food.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Please do not let this racist law get passed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
These taco trucks offer affordable, good food to the masses. The new law would change the face of Los Angeles for worse.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I’m vegetarian now, but used to love the taco trucks. I still support their existence! Viva los taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
The taco trucks are not hurting store-front businesses - those businesses aren’t even open during the hours that most taco trucks operate. This just seems racist and classist.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
this is just ridiculous
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
wtf, save the taco trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
No more tortas?!?!?! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!! I DEMAND… SOUR CREAM AND CHEESE ON MY TORTA!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Save the taco trucks. The same goes for ice cream trucks and those new Korean Ho Dduk trucks serving Korean sweet pancakes.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
These are hard working Americans!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
please please stop this madness.
they feed us when restaurants are closed.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Please don’t incriminate our Taco vendors.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
go Taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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on April 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
For better public health, we need more street food in America, not less.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Don’t take the wonderful memories of my childhood. I would like my children to have the same Lunchera experiences.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Save taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
These trucks are good sources of income for folks who otherwise have less. With an economic recession currently in place it won’t only affect the folks who sell, but us poor folks who consume this affordable means of nutrition.
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Leave the taco trucks alone. Focus on cutting less money from our SCHOOLS!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
The taco trucks is a great place to chill with friend and family!
on April 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The Taco trucks are apart of our culture and our community!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Long live the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I use taco trucks for a quick lunch frequently. The food is good, the people are nice, they add a flavor to our civic centers.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
it’s an oversight to think taco trucks don’t provide a necessary service to the communities they’re in. it would be a crime to target simple businesses that give so much to the neighborhoods and working people. leave these essential business owners alone!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Save delicious and nutritious street food!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
It’s pointless to take away our beloved taco trucks! It would be such a crime.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Enough with the repression already! >[ Let the taco trucks be!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I’m a second-generation Los Angeles resident and I know taco trucks are part of the unique culture of the city. Without them, L.A. will be more like everywhere else and not wonderfully unique!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
IF it weren’t for our roach coaches, a lot of us would be starving for lunch. That’s not cool!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
i love tacos.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Dollar tacos are my religion.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
FIRST BACON WRAPPED HOT DOGS NOW THIS?? NO MAS!!!! SAVE TACO TRUCKS….SPREAD THR WORD AROUND!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Why don’t you focus on removing Starbucks from every corner of Los Angeles instead.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I like tacos!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Everyone needs to make a living in this country…..since when is selling food on the streets illegal….there should be focus on the criminal activity that happens around the neighborhoood, not of vendors on taco trucks…enough said….
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Most of the places you see are the same fast food franchises. It’s these kind of taco trucks which gives some color to the dull cities.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Badruddin Gowani
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
No more taco trucks makes me EMO
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
taco trucks are among the few things i love about LA
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I loved the taco tucks when I lived in Arcata California, please don’t ban them in LA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Push yourself to deal with the economic/social inequalities that lead people to have to do survival work such as street vendor work rather than criminalizing the victims of these inequalities.
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
These trucks are part of the culture and atmosphere of LA. The government wants to get rid of them because they just want a piece of their money. They need to give up the action against Taco trucks and focus on more important things. While you’re at it, bring back bacon wrapped Hot Dogs!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
this is pure, unmitigated TASTEless RACISM.
Los Angeles’s culture shouldn’t be determined by
aryan east-coasters with no backbone or stomache!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
2 al pastor por favor
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
save the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
please do not take away our wagons
its all i have left
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Gloria Molina, Are there not other IMPORTANT situations going on in LOS ANGELES??? All the daily murders that are happening. TACOS TRUCKS???
Leave them alone.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
To whom it may concern,
I was shocked when this happened in New Orleans last year, but i never, never imagined something so bigoted and obviously unfair could ever happen in LA. i’m relocating to the city for work, and am seriously considering raising my kids there. That’s because LA embodies the poli-glot, immigrant fueled never-stand-still american metropolis, one where entrepreneurs big and small—shit, people big and small, are supposed to get a fair shot. I think the city is only doing this because they know that the roach coaches can’t fight back. Truck owners are way less likely than brick and mortar owners to be able to fight for their rights in the lingua franca of city hall. So are their customers.
In a democracy, the people are supposed to have the say. In a capitalist society, businesses that innovate beat out those that don’t. In a capitalist democracy like ours, hasn’t the vote been cast? The people like the trucks, so stop legislating against them!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Why would you attack small businesses and your constituents? Did somebody drop a taco truck on your sister?
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Please keep the taco trucks a part of Los Angeles culture!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:12 pm
A taco truck was what kept my baby alive when I was pregnant. I waddled my way across the street to the taco truck and had 5 tacos al pastor almost every night. Think of all the pregnant ladies that will not be able to fulfill their cravings!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Viva la Roach Coach!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Save them!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Taco trucks have, and always will be, my reason for visiting LA when school is out.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Please, this is ridiculous! SAVE THE TACO TRUCKS!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Taco trucks are what make Los Angeles so great! Save the taco truck!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I love the taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
WHY IS THIS LADY TRIPPING ??? GET HER OUT OF HERE. TACO TRUCKS ARE A LOS ANGELES STAPLE. PLEASE LET EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS INJUSTICE. WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Are you TRYING to make L.A. as lame as others would claim it to be!?!?!?!? Taco trucks make up a part of the saving grace of our city. What are you DOING to us!? Everything shuts at 2am. No delivery. And no transportation systems and now THIS. I love L.A….but you’ve GOT to be KIDDING me!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
SAVE THEM FOR FEEDING ME!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
In the name of suadero, let’s save the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
carne asada is not a crime!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Save the taco trucks PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
me hungry!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Sounds like this is city attempting to introduced the same one-sided regulations imposed on “Hispanic” taquerías in New Orleans.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:28 pm
some of the best food in LA. keep them as part of our cherished culture…there ain’t that much go around. we’re proud of our taco trucks — i always bring out of town guests to my favorites.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Why must our elected officials take it upon themselves to save us from our own culture?
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
i LOOOOOOOve suadero burritos!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
a chunk of my heart will die if this happens. how can we fight the city?
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
if it weren’t for these taco trucks my family and i would starve. please dont take our taco trucks away! if you do, they’ll be a war in the streets!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Taco trucks are part of the culture in LA. Keep taco trucks on the streets!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
it’s kinda sad that it takes taco trucks to make us so outraged at our government.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
please save the taco trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
save the taco trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This is some bullsh*t! Save the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
To exile the mobile food industry; is to destroy culture and family. Don’t contribute anymore to the silencing of the history of underrepresented and marginalized communities.
save our taco trucks, and save our communities’ culture!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
l.a. will be a much sadder place without the taco truck
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Taco trucks! We shall overcome!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
no one in eagle rock, glassell park, or highland park want to lose LEO’s and SONIA’s Taco trucks. Then we’d have no where to eat after all the crackin parties. Save your local taco trucks!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
It is one of the most important foods in Los Angeles. It’s like decapitating east la culture. This is not going to benefit the people. What a giant mistake. They will never here the end of it as far as i am concerned. This is a lot of peoples well being. I can’t believe these politicians can sleep at night.
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
porque?
on April 21st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
save our tacos!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Why not get rid of the Hollywood sign while you are at it. Taco trucks are a part of southern California. Some of the best tacos come from these trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Please do not take our beloved Taco Trucks away. They are a good source of food for the patrons and good income for the entrepreneurs. More than half of Los Angeles’s residents are of hispanic decent and visit the Taco Trucks regularly.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
please que the music, get me a bib, and I’ll take two tacos por favor!
Save the Taco Trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
SAVE OUR TRUCKS!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
When I visit your city, I always patronize the taco trucks. Un burrito con asada, frijoles y aguacate. No cilantro, por favor. That’s about the only Spanish I know, but it’s the important stuff.
Repeal your ill advised law. Thanks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I LOVE TACO TRUCKS!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I support saving our taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
these trucks provide a needed service to the community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I FUCKEN ♥ LA’S TACOS MAN THEY ARE AWSOME AND CARNE ASADA IS NOT NO DAMN CRIME ONLY CUZ US GHETTO LATINOS WANT TO MAKE A LIVING SHIET FUCK THAT LATINA FOR LIFE RIGHT HERE AND FUCK YEA TO CARNE ASADA!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:37 pm
This issue with the taco trucks is another form of gentrification. The “trokas” provide an alternative for many who are on the go, seeking a good meal at an affordable price. They also help maintain a sense of community (which is begining to waver in many places.) Many of my friends and I would (and still do) routinely go to help out Mrs. So-and-So or Mr. So-and-So who managed their own trucks because we knew that not only did they serve good food, but their own subsistence also depended on their ties with the community.
SHAME ON YOU, GLORIA MOLINA….VENDIDA!!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
carne asada, con todo
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Reconsider this legislation immediately!
Taco Trucks are already required to be liscensed and pass health code . Taking them away would be a mistake and would serve to do nothing but take away some employment opportunities as well as take away a hot meal for those who lack 24 hour cuisine or grocery stores in their neighboorhoods. Living in Echo Park for a year, I frequesnted two neighboorhood taco trucks as I was working night shifts when there were no other fast food places open in my area. Restaurants are not affected by these trucks anymore than they are affected by fast food chains or grocery stores. Let THE PEOPLE decide what foods they choose to eat. This legislation shows a lack of understanding and respect for the communities these trucks serve.
On behalf of the Echo Park neighborhood, I ask you to reconsider this legislation.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
people in LA are being rapped & killed. taco trucks are the LEAST of LAs problems. leave the trucks alone.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Save the taco trucks, they are an essential institution to our invigorating community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Leave our trucks alone. Food is a right of all peoples, and it also our right to have it delivered as we see fit. Are you also going to ban the pizza guy next, and then the chinese delivery? I think not, because dominant cultural norms allow for food delivery. Why not also food delivery, purchase and consumption? Save our trucks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Great eats. Sounds like chamber of commerce types have a burr in their asses!
on April 21st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
taco trucks are what makes L.A. a good place to actually inhabit.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
save the trucks!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:01 pm
taco taco! how am i supposed to find my favorite taco trucks if they’re not in the same place day after day after day?
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
the taco truck is a staple of LA eating!
you can’t take it away - how else will we soak up all the alcohol we consumed earlier in the night?
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Taco trucks are amazing, don’t break a kids dream.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:03 pm
What would LA be without taco trucks? Repeal the ordinance!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Taco Trucks wouldn’t be in competition with restaurants if the restaurants just served the same delicious & affordable food. Maybe the restaurant owners complaining about our taco truck consumption should just find better business models. But in the meantime - TACO ZONE FOREVA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
these tacos from the trucks are the best ! why would you take them? it’s like taking discotheque from saturday night. don’t do it !!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
TACO TRUCKS, por vida, C/S!!!
Arriba con los taqueros, abajo con Gloria Molina!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
keep on truckin
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
This is OUTRAGEOUS!! OUTRAGEOUS!! How dare we continue to allow the raping of an already oppressed population. This has everything to do with stripping the man of color, in this case the LATINOS, of every possible resource available to them. These people work hard to provide a basic need to their community in a space no larger than what a HUMMER takes up. SAVE OUR TRUCKS!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
please don’t do this to taco trucks! it will be hard for me to find my favorite ones if they are moving around every hour! It is a totally different customer base! It’s not going to make me go to restaurants more often. When i want a quick taco from a taco truck, nothing can replace that craving!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
the taco trucks is what make east los different! our people are just trying to make a decent living, cant you focus on drugs, drunk drivers and other major crimes that impact our lives????
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
you can’t pull taco trucks out of the streets because there is a demand for them, and people need to make a living. its a fair trade..and these people work damn hard to live halfway decently in the united states.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Free Enterprise.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Taco Trucks are an LA staple. I came here from Philadelphia where we had cheese steak carts on every corner. It gave Philly character. Plus taco trucks rule! Please don’t take the taco trucks away : (
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
What is wrong with people? This is where you get the best food! No way are you going to get rid of it!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
don’t close our beloved taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
No taco trucks in L.A.?
Absolute madness!
Save our taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Save taco trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:38 pm
save the taco trucks!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Dejen en paz a los taqueros!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Dejen en paz a los pobres taqueros!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Why is our government taking sides on this issue, shouldn’t they be neutral on issues of competition?
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
taco trucks are one of the best things about LA.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
When I retire I plan to buy a Taco Truck and tour the US.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I love taco trucks why take em away!!!
Let these people stay with their business. You guys leave hotdog vendors alone why not these people 2.
on April 21st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I need “EL PiQUE”
!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
taco tuesdays are what bike riders live for.
its our life
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
we need taco trucks in L.A.!! whenever we go visit, that’s the only good mexican food we can find! the rest are fake california style tex mex places. leave the authentic goodness to the guys on wheels!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
This sets a precedent for any business in any town: The non-CoC businesses are fair game. Keep the taco trucks operating - they are the epitome of the American dream…and it’s hard to find a really good torta in a brick and mortar restaurant!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
this is an autrage
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
if this happens than the voice of waht i believe is a greater part of our community is being ignored.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:11 pm
People have the right to develop their own economic means. And when those means serve the community as informal spaces for gathering, and forming community, then those economies should be celebrated. Rather than policing, criminalizing and stigmatizing local informal economic practices, local government should figure out how to meet the actual needs of vendors. Talk to the taco truck vendors. Find out what they need. Don’t criminalize them and stigmatize them.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
what is LA without taco trucks? we need these as a source of affordable sustenance and also culture here in the working class and immigrant neighborhoods of LA. i will quote my comrade Xihuatl: “This issue with the taco trucks is another form of gentrification. The “trokas” provide an alternative for many who are on the go, seeking a good meal at an affordable price. They also help maintain a sense of community (which is begining to waver in many places.) Many of my friends and I would (and still do) routinely go to help out Mrs. So-and-So or Mr. So-and-So who managed their own trucks because we knew that not only did they serve good food, but their own subsistence also depended on their ties with the community.”
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Taco trucks are an icon of Los Angeles and an integral part of it’s culture. One person should not be able to control them.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
dear supervisor, i think you need to be using your tax payed time more wisely and on more pressing issues in our community than trying to take away great food and culture from tax paying angelinos.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Taco trucks are a trademark of many Latino communities. What’s more, it’s a way to make a living for most.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Congratulations on eliminating homelessness, rape, murder, domestic violence, disease, budgetary issues and for winning the war against terror!
Of course all of these conditions must have been met if you are actually spending taxpayer’s money and wasting your time worrying about taco trucks.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
taco trucks not only provide good food, but they are just trying to make a living! where’s the morality in that? taco trucks are NOT a crime
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Wow. So this is evidently the most pressing problem Los Angeles County has? And this is the kind of hard-hitting legislation that Supervisors spend their time dreaming up? Trying to take away something that makes LA what it is? I don’t know where you’ve been eating Gloria, but the trucks beat most Mexican restaurants in the city.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I love Taco Trucks and Street Meat… LA woud never be the same!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I never thought I would see the day but The Man or in this case The Woman is continually crushing the little people once more with more obstacles and walls.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I love Taco Trucks and Street Meat… LA woud never be the same!Taco trucks brings tourist believe it or not… because I bring them to the trucks to taste the real LA
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
your closing the doors on the people who struggled so hard to give u the right to be where u are today, how hipocritical of u to take the opportunity away from your own people. no matter how disassocciated you feel from them. you should be ashamed (and apparently you are) of yourself, not for being a hispanic but for being a sellout. remember who u come from.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
YOU? Opposing TACO trucks? Come on…….
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
We can’t let this happen! Many who cannot afford to open a more conventional business can operate taco trucks which can give them a better living and even lead to their opening a more conventional business, like a taco stand. An attack on the taco truck is an attack on an important route to prosperity for Los Angeles’ Hispanic community.
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Save free trade!
on April 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
save the taco trucks!!!!!!!!!1
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I love you taco trucks. Don’t let the man keep you down!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
This is simply unacceptable. Taco trucks are an integral and important part of our community. The politicians who favor harassing these hard working individuals are politicians I will vote against in the next election.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Iconic, egalitarian, indispensable.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
taco trucks need more than an hour to serve all the hungry people.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
TACO TRUCKS POR VIDA DAMMIT!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Save Our Taco Trucks
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Save our Tacos. This would be a crime.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
WHERE ELSE AM I GOING TO EAT A FAST AUTHENTIC WHOLESOME MEAL?
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
i love my tacos…please dont that them away
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Mrs. Molina, isnt there more important things to be concerned about instead of worrying about Taco Trucks??? This makes no sense, a waste of time… Leave the trucks, its decent people trying to make a fair living !!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
What’s really behind this?
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:32 pm
What would L.A. be without our taco trucks? They build community! They make L.A. unique! Many will be very upset if elected officials support their closing.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Echo Park wouldn’t be the same…the trucks must stay
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
why be so money hungry and attack the taco trucks?
i mean damn, if we slap some aol/ disney advertisements on da trucks can we call it even?
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Taco trucks rule.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
It is a shame that Gloria Molina a Latina, voted in by a majority Latino population, and supported by the community can easily detach herself from her people. The taco trucks in Los Angeles are a symbol and a reflection of the Los Angeles culture. Molina your behavior is a complete betrayal of your people, since taco trucks are mainly operated by Latinos. You are cutting their source of livelihood and robbing their children of financial security. Your attitude is regrettable.
on April 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
My work office is located in an industrial area where restaurants are not close by. Without the taco trucks in the area I would have no where go. Please keep them around!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
mmmmm…tacos
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Glo Mo is wrong!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
what will there be to eat at 1am?
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Taco trucs are NEEDED!
please dont take them away from us!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
This sounds like other food corps. are loosing business due to taco trucks and are now trying to put them to an end. There is no toco truck issue, but there are other issues that should be dealt with in the L.A. community. Save the trucks!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
come on now, how can they do that?
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I WOULD WANT THEM 2 RMOVE ALL THEM NASTY ASS MCDONALDSB4 U MOVE ANY TACO TRUCKS!!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
first gloria molina whitewashes the meeting of styles project on the river, then she’s after taco truck operators! she is just no fun! but really- this has everything to do with the gold line construction in east la, gentrification, and property values/development. it is so transparent. they are legislating away the culture of los angeles that has been created by its people, and giving development incentives to quizno’s, blockbuster, and coffee bean and tea leaf.
http://molina.lacounty.gov/pages/Photo%20Album/PA2006/East%20LA%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce/East%20LA%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/us/04boyle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“The first thing you do is upgrade the area,” Ms. Molina said, “and that will attract private investment.” She said a Starbucks opened in East Los Angeles in March, and a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and a Quiznos sandwich shop opened three years ago.
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Viva La Taquizas A Domicilio!!
on April 21st, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Supervisor Molina,
What beef (no pun intended) do you have with raza? Why all these oppressive restrictions on our taco vendors and especially your total disregard of the arts (the order you made to have the Meeting of Styles Mural whitewashed!)! You along with Villaraigosa, have turned your backs on our communities by betraying our trust and most importantly, NUESTRA CULTURA! If you even have a soul in you, I would advise that you stop attacking us with these heinous restrictions and regulations and LEAVE OUR TACO VENDORS, ARTISTS, and our CULTURE ALONE!!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Taco trucks bring joy to everyone. This is ridiculous!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
That you would even think of doing this…
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 am
when you outlaw tacos, only outlaws will have tacos
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am
Someone must be stuffing mad $$$$ down that cows throat….
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
whaaaat? instead of focusing the ever so convenient taco trucks, why dont these politicians draft up initiatives to reduce gang violence, legalize medicinal marijuana, abolish the fuckin’ IRS, or kick out inept incumbents?! Jesusfuckingchrist
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Save the taco trucks!! How will Mexicans eat??..lol
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 am
They need to get off our nuts and get on the gas issue because that’s what’s driving everyone crazy!
Save The Taco Trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 am
Long live the taco cart!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:21 am
viva la tacos!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 am
a world without good tacos is a world i would fight to destroy
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 am
It is indeed part of our culture.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
the taco truck on lincoln and rose is one of my favorite stops when i am in LA.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
supervisor: it is not taco lover’s fault that you like to eat mc donald’s trashy food
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 am
Please, please… I NEED these trucks. They offer me goodies I need to survive. Sad, perhaps, but true. They’re part of LA and deserve to be here, untouched.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 am
save the trucks!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 4:11 am
Taco love!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
keep the trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 am
what is the world coming to?? taking my beloved tacos.. =[
on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:41 am
Keep the taco truck!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:55 am
c’mon…what’s next, u want my first born?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
you can take the children… just leave me my taco truck
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 am
Taco trucks are one of the pillars of Los Angeles low-cost cuisine. Taco Trucks set us apart from Chicago or New York. L.A taco trucks are known nationwide as the best place to get a taco in the country.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
This is atrocious!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
Would so much rather see these trucks offereing good, fast, economical food on the side of the street than a Burger King, McDonalds, or Jack in the Crack
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
really? this is ridiculous
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
count me in! Please save our taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 am
why punish the taco trucks? besides representing everything that is great about los angeles, they are the lifeblood TO the lifeblood of the city. what kind of message are you trying to send? don’t be your own boss? don’t support your community? don’t eat healthy wholesome for cheap? this is an ugly blow to the american dream
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
This is an outrage. These people are just trying to make an honest living humbly selling tacos. Providing for a family should be allowed for these people.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
yo gloria, don’t act like you’ve never chowed more than a few tacos off these trucks…get your act together and save the best mexican food in los angeles
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Gloria Molina,
I just want to let you know that taco trucks are part of our community and culture. As far as I can remember, taco trucks have always been there for a quick snack, whether it be in the morning or late night. What the Dodger Dog is to dodger stadium, the taco truck is to the L.A. community. Its more than just a taco truck, its a Los Angeles past time.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 am
I love the trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
i am a vegetarian and dont usually support animal cruelty but i believe that the taco trucks are part of the L.A. community and culture so who are you to deny L.A. its cultura? Focus your energy on getting rid of military recruiters in our kids schools, or do something to beautify our barrios, don’t dwell on the small things especially if they do no harm to us. Senora Molina, do not forget where you came from! What would your grandmother have to say about what you are trying to do? Ten verguenza vendida!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 am
Think of the people you’ll be putting off of work and into our unemployment lines. With the country going into recession and the increasing number of unemployment, due you want to be solely responsible for an even a bigger unemployment number and more people going into government monetary assistance? You’re forcing people into a diminishing welfare system and removing money going into it.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Save the trucks, and an important part of LA culture!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
Ok?? Why?! These retards make the dumbest of dumbest regulations! How in the hell are lunch trucks effecting us negatively?? Like seriously?! Lunch truck has never done anything to me except provide food for us whenever me and my dad had construction jobs but I guess that’s a crime or something some how? C’mon guys?! WT& for real?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Someone needs to investigate who in the hell is paying Molina under the table to do this bullshit law. When i think of LA two things come to mind Pollo loco’s and taco trucks. What fuck is next are they going to start limiting how many mexicans can be out at once? Molina is a fucking sell out and needs to be kicked out of office.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Taking the twco truck from LA is like taking he hot dog stands from NYC!! It part of LA “culture”
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Id rather they take McDonalds off then the beautiful taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
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on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
The County Supervisor and other city officials really need to spend as much time worrying about fixing all these darn potholes and join efforts with the big guys to get these STUPID gas prices back to normal. Help the community out by doing that!
UNBELIEVABLE!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
Numerous people enjoy taco stands, why take enjoyment away from the people?? They are accepted where they are in their locations!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
Dear Gloria Molina,
Don’t you have anything better to do than to enforce laws that do nothing to serve the public interest? This is nothing more than a jack-move to extort money from legitimate businessmen in order to inject more money into a broke city. The coffers are empty because of the gross mismanagement by YOUR cronies, not Angelenos. Please retire.
Regards,
Carlos Reveco
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
Another example of TOO much government!!! Leave these people alone and let them make a living!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Get rid of fast food chains before the trucks, make it easier here for
small business.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
We need our lunch trucks !!
They also have families to support.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Save the taco stand!!!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
Ms. Molina,
Taco trucks seems like a small fraction compared to the EVERYDAY murders going on in our beloved Los Angeles. Put your energy into saving a loved one!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
This regulations only seem to disempower people in every level especially those that are only trying to work for food.
There are so many important issues affecting our cities and they chose to oppress the little guy that is only trying to make a living!!! the injustice!!! cannot they see they are only affecting the community for the worst…
WHy not focus on education or something better!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
i can’t even imagine the LA landscape without taco trucks!! first the farmer’s markets are targeted, now the street vendors…what’s next? these are the things that make our city so great!there is absolutely no upside to cracking down on these guys.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
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on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
What did the tacos ever do to you? This is outrageous.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Save LA Taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Don’t forget where you came from Gloria Molina.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
The taco truck must survive!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am
SAVE THE TACO TRUCKS AND A VITAL PART OF LA’s EVER DWINDLING CULTURE!!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
I am not from the LA area, but I support taco trunks whenever I visit LA. There are certain trucks that receive my repeated business and I find it ridiculous to make those truck move every hour. What will I do without my late night carne asada binge?
Please pull the plug on this ordinance and save our taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 am
These trucks are an amazing anomaly that only exist in Los Angeles. They are a vibrant source of culture and community. The loss of these trucks would be a terrible blow to the Latino community and all of us that support it. Do NOT do something that will be detrimental to the cultural health of our fair city.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
This ordinance is ridiculous. Save the taco trucks. There must be better things to do than pick on people trying to make a living by providing us gastronomical ecstasy.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am
Uno de cesos para Gloria!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Don’t our politicians have anything better to work on? Like maybe Healthcare?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 am
I’m sure that this is a backhanded way of getting at illegal immigrants, otherwise I can’t think of any reason to do such a ridiculous thing. It will undoubtedly affect more legals than illegals, not to mention all the citizens who love tacos!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 am
This isn’t fair to the folks trying to make a living and feed hungry folks! Taco Trucks are not breaking any laws!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
These trucks are an important part of our economy. They are also a “cultural” mainstay, and should not be unnecessarily regulated. Use my tax dollars for something more important–this is an infuriating WASTE of the money we pay out to our city.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Wow..This is so ridiculous!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
This is an attack on the cultural heritage of all Angelenos. Over the 9 years that I have lived here, I have regularly visited many of my local taco trucks; each one a different experience and a reflection of the neighborhood. Even after moving away I have often, and repeatedly, gone back to visit my favorites. This is a tragedy.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
It’s absurd that this is even being addressed as an issue. Gloria Molina, I’m sure has had her fair share of tacos from the taco trucks. One thing you can count on is NOT a vote from me Sra. Molina! No sea hipocrita!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Obviously absurd.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Honestly, there’s no good reason taco trucks cannot exist, as long as proper safety standards are kept, there is no reason whatsoever they cannot work.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Don’t be rediculous! The best food in this city comes from people selling it on the street.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Taco drivers are just trying to make an honest living not only that but their tacos are great..they are authentic
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Follow up with some more pressing issues facing our community.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 am
they crave my hunger @ night after a club when all the other fast food restaurants are closed and im in the mood for good food.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
I was born and raised in Souther California. I lived in Los Angeles for 32 yrs and still have a home there. My job has moved me to Colorado but my son and the rest of my family still live in So. Ca. I can only afford to come home once a year and I would miss not being able to find my taco truck where I can usually find him. Pls, there are no many other issues Los Angeles needs address now other than fines on taco trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
Whenever friends and family come to visit me in Los Angeles, taco trucks in my area are the first thing that pop into my mind to take them to. They have become an integral part of the Los Angeles community, and is a unique aspect that adds to LA.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Taco trucks are a part of the whole culture and history of Los Angeles. To try and enforce these new laws, is obviously a way for the Municipal Government to try to squeeze more money out of the little guys. To get rid of them is to get rid of the local landscape. These trucks are meeting places for friends or a last outpost for those hungry city dwellers when everything else is closed. I personally look forward to my favorite taco truck being there where it always is parked. The salsa and burritos are some of the best in town.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
It embarrasses me how ignorant some people can be. I am sure 98% of the population has at least once had food from the taco stand, how ridiculous do you have to be to pass such acts. How about you guys concentrate on solving bigger issues at hand for ONCE. I am even more embarrassed that Gloria Molina a “Hispanic” would take such acts. You should be ashamed!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Please do not take away the taco trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
don’t ruin a good thing.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 am
This is one of the reasons I moved here. Don’t take the trucks away!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
This is just unfair.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
TACO TRUCKS FOREVER
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Don’t take away the taco trucks! Their a great part L.A.’s cultural experience. Not to mention the livelihood of thousands of people!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Supervisor Molina please don’t eradicate this dining institution. It is part of what makes Los Angeles unique. Angelenos deserve to have a variety of dining options; this includes taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Ms. Molina,
Stop focusing on minor issues such as Taco trucks in our community and start focusing in reducing the gang violence surrounding schools around the city of Los Angeles.
With that said stop wasting tax payers money on nonsenses.
I have spoken!
He Dicho!
Jorge-
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Don’t take away the taco trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 am
i dont mind taco trucks, but i do mind those lil mobile stands that are indiana and lan franco, also the one on ditman and lan franco. im a east l.a. local residing on lan franco and there are times i cant find parking and have to park blocks away from my home (east l.a. is pretty over crowded as it is and usually have to park one block away..lol) but darn it, 3 blocks!
Im intrested to know how people on these blocks feel. again this comment is not directed to taco trucks because ususally their set up at liqour store parking lots or by laundrymats with their designed parking, but to those mobile bbq grills and even to those taco trucks setting up shop on residential streets…yes i literally can go outside throw my trash and buy a taco because lan frnaco and ditman residents have their own exclusive taco man(sarcasm).
Gloria go after those mobile bbq pit guys, not the taco truck that pays for its lisence.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 am
save our taco trucks! they are cheap and delicious!!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
This is another great source of revenue for our city! Not only is it keeping people employed, but it they are also a staple of our great diverse city!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
save the little peoples right to work.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
i love tacos …. those things come in handy … my whole family has eaten from those things rotating my not be such a bad idea…. they take up alot of roomm.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
this is just dumb!!! wat is this society coming too… some of the best tacos come from taco trucks… Gloria i think theres more important things to concentrate on other than taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
Cost of living in LA continues to rise. Middle and lower income citizens are already facing growing challenges - don’t add to the problem.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 am
the best thing aboult food…..at 2am
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
I love the tacos don’t take them or the hot dogs ! lol
-Blake
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Ridiculous restriction.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Let’s focus on more important things to deal with other than Taco trucks. And let’s unite to support the hard working citizens by selling their tacos!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Taco trucks are one of the culinary highlights of any decent city. Without them, I have one less reason to visit L.A.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
The taco truck is a culinary delight of L.A. nitelife & culture!!
taco trucks are landmarks just like burger joints!!
they are essential to small communties & towns…
please keep the trucks where they are!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Taco trucks are one of the culinary highlights of any decent city. Without them, I have one less reason to visit L.A.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
I remember eating at the King Taco taco trucks. Look where they are at now. Give all these other trucks a chance. Isn’t that what this country is all about.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
It boils down to the established restaurant owners disliking the competition. They claim taco trucks are “unfair competition.” But how is not unfair for the restaurant owners to enlist the County Supervisors to outlaw their competitors?
Not to mention, six months is jail? How is that possibly a fair punishment for operating a taco truck in one spot for too long?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Its just a new way to tax them.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
One of the many unique things of Los Angeles are the taco trucks. Taco trucks help those who are on a budget and those who are willing to work.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Your messing w/the taco trucks, really?….Really?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
save the local trucks
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I support the right of people to earn a living and provide a service to the communities they operate in. Leave the Taco Trucks alone.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Protect the taco trucks! Long may the roll!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Viva Cheo’s Tacos on Alhambra Avenue in El Sereno!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
C’mon, it’s not like people who run these things are getting rich. Let them make a living & let people enjoy cheap, delicious tacos! Who came up with this idea anyways? Clearly someone interested in detroying livelihoods & someone’s method of staying of the dole.
Uninterupted tacos for the people!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I am a veteran in the restaurant industry. I have started my career from the bottom up and final feel I have the money to start a little something I can call my own….A truck was my ideal start to evolve to a restaurant without getting to far into debt and now your gonna make my American dream further away and your opportunity for good food, culture, and smiles harder to receive!
I hope Earth day brings some ideas to your head, because there is a hell of a lot more issues to be tackling then taking away peoples livelihood!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
viva los tacos!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Unfortunately, we only have a limited amount of taco trucks on the West side, this law effects more of L.A. than the East side… También comemos tacos cerca de la playa. SAVE THE TRUCKS!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Really? Taco trucks? Is that what our leaders see as an imminent threat to our city??…ummmm guns, drugs, dilapidated schools, HIV rates,High STD rates in youth, unemployment, polution…ring a bell???
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
How about they make changes where they need to be made! Like our school system and State deficit!! Leave us taco/burrito/torta lovers alone!!! I refuse to purchase crappy tacos from actual restaurants!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
When i have customers in town, the first place they want to go to is an actual la style ‘taco truck’.
i make a stop every weekend after socializing to support my local food vendor. they are a los angeles staple, what are they thinking?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
nothing wrong with tacos mane
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Save the taco trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Signed… let’s save the taco trucks
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
keep your hands off our food!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
These taco trucks provide good food, at a good value. They are part of the culture and fabric of Los Angeles. To take them away would be a crime.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
LET MY PAISAS COOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Save ‘em
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
taco trucks not only provide a good meal for a good price,
they are also aesthetically pleasing and add culture to our cities.
what a waste of our city governments time and our tax dollars.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Are you crazy? Viva las camionetas de tacos! Say no to whitwashing of culture. These are the same people that would mistake a cultural mural for “gangbanger graffiti”. I need my carne asada! What’s in YOUR stomach?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I LOVE MY TACOS ON ALVARO & MONTANA..XOXXO
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
You people are definetly out of touch with the community taco trucks are a los angleses staple and close to being a tourist attraction. Also in some neighborhoods its the only thing open past 10pm. And for people like myself who work late shifts i dont know what i would do without them. Isnt there some crime or something better for yall to be doin then worrying about taco trucks. Help solve some real issues !
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
This is ridiculous! What exactly is the problem with taco trucks? They must be allowed to stay!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Street food is an essential ingredient of any vibrant urban community; just look to New York, Bangkok, Chicago, and Kingston for examples. Removing the taco trucks from Los Angeles (or regulating them out of existence) is equivalent to New York making its hot dog, shoarma, cheesesteak, pretzel, popcorn, and ice cream stands illegal. The city would seem charmless and homogeneous without them.
I understand the Council’s motivation to regulate the taco trucks further or figure out a way to have them provide additional income to the county or city, but surely there is a more reasonable and practical way to accomplish both goals? Sit down and talk to each other.
Or better yet, focus on an topic that is more important, like the city’s water quality in its pre-war buildings, potholes, or the sewer system, for starters. You know, things that we citizens actually have valid complaints about.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
please let the taco trucks continue!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Don’t take away the only thing that makes this sprawling rubble unique!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
they make the best taco
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Please do not take away the best family buisnes in LA. To deny LA of the Taco truck would be like ridding the world of the ice cream man!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
sometimes this is the only available place to eat at the hours i keep. not to mention that food has always been excellent. it is a community hub, it’s part of the fabric of los angeles and i can’t believe that there aren’t better issues to occupy the city council.
save the trucks!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
The sound of la Cucaracha blaring into the air is the essence of Los Angeles. This stupid proposition not only threatens this iconic melody, but also targets business owners for being smart. It’s anti-American, anti-taco and anti-cool. Fuck this law.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
It’s insane that this is happening . . . What’s next will they be closing down Mexican Restaurants too???
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
dont mess with the citizens of los angeles. we elected you into office and we have the power to get rid of you. who streets are these our streets. the taco trucks stay!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
wtf! if you notice no crime ever happens at the taco truck. people are to busy eating some good tacos! they contribute to the comunity and to hungry people everywhere.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I am outraged. These trucks put food on the table for many families in the Los Angeles communuty–whether it be the vendor making a money to provide for his family, or the consumer trying to feed his. This will negatively affect both vendors and consumers. Not to mention that it will rape hardworking people of making an honest living and will rape the Los Angeles community of delicious and convenient food! This hits close to home, as my friend Ryan wouldn’t survive without the LA taco trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
How about an ordinance regulating how long they can hang out right outside a sitdown restaurant instead? Would make 50 times as much sense and wouldn’t unfairly penalize the guys in the trucks just trying to make a living.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Taco trucks = los angeles.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
bunch of fascist pigs!
they are only going after them cause they don’t have to pay property taxes or city ordinance! These are people trying to make a living why screw it up for them?
Miss Gloria Molina needs to find something better to do with her time and actually do something meaningful instead of harassing her OWN kind!
shes a joke and one of the biggest douche bags ever!
VIVA LA RAZA!
LMAO!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I know that making laws is the bread and butter of our councilmen, but this law is a little much. I have never had any problem with the tacos I have had from the taco trucks. Let the little people have a job or business. The government does not want them on unemployment. Let them make their money, or will the government want to pay for them to be able to afford to live in LA??!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Taco trucks are a unique part of LA’s cultural and culinary heritage. These regulations will drive them out of business. Please do not let that happen.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
i love tacos!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
This is ridiculous. What harm do they make by staying in one location for more than an hour? It is less convenient for us and the district!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
They are so much a part of the community!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
save the taco trucks
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
LA would not be the same without tacos trucks. It is not just that some of the best and cheapest food can be found there - communal street food is an important part of mexicano culture that contributes to the richness of east la. priceless: “carne asada is not a crime.”
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
First they came for the Taco Trucks, and I was silent…
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
L.A. wont be the same without Taco trucks
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Taco Kisses Fof My Ben!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
i am born and raised in LA, and taco truck food is the main reason i failed at being a vegetarian… twice. but i also have friends who live on the east coast who want to hit up the taco truck first thing when they visit! LA isn’t the same without them!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I’ve come to appreciate the truck’s services. To think that the district poses a threat to the trucks, is truly preposterous; Ludicrous how else are these individuals suppose to make a profit. Much support for the Trucks!!
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Thats just an attack on her own people, Very Disgusting. I’m sure the Ku Klux Klan is very happy with her..
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Taco trucks are a special characteristic of Los Angeles and a wanted part of our community.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Taco trucks are typical LA icons. The eyesores and cultural invaders are McDonald’s and Burger King. Enough of corporate cultural contamination!
Or is this easier to deal with than the state of emergency health services in the County? FOCUS!
TACO TRUCKS C/S
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Please help keep out taco trucks.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
OMG, when I read this on myspace I was shocked. For someone like GLORIA MOLINA who always prides herself on being a “LOCAL LATINA” from the neighborhood would do something like this. I usually expect this from the white washed elective officials in office. I forgot there are many brown nose Latinos in office that give us a bad name. Pushing the taco trucks off the streets is like taking the hot dog stands out of New York City. I am outraged. I will tell my friends and family about this crap…once again by GLORIA MOLINA someone I have never voted for who is holding office.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Who are they competing with at 2 in the morning?
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Taco Trucks do not take away patronage from most restaurants because most restaurants are not open 24 hrs a day! The free market has already decided. Taco Trucks service the interest of consumers in the most efficient manner. This is just another instance of the nanny state doing more harm than good.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I am signing this petition because my wife grew up in Los Angeles, and even though I grew up in Chino my family started out with a vending truck they now own a chain of local taco places to eat at. I have met some taco truck owners that have known my wife since she was a little kid in Los Angeles, I