"like Los Angeles...which are hopelessly and permanently car-dependent regions" LA is doing an enormous amount to get away from car dependency: a brand new rai

"like Los Angeles...which are hopelessly and permanently car-dependent regions" LA is doing an enormous amount to get away from car dependency: a brand new rail line that just opened last week (Expo 2), another line that opened a few months ago (Gold line foothill extension), two rail lines under active construction and a $150B transportation plan (including several rail lines and even a huge rail/highway tunnel) that's going on the ballot in November. It's really slow, difficult, expensive work to completely re-engineer a city, but it's far from hopeless.