I'm from Dallas, and I'm considering a move to the LA/OC area in the second half of this year, so I've been doing copious research about what it's like to live

I'm from Dallas, and I'm considering a move to the LA/OC area in the second half of this year, so I've been doing copious research about what it's like to live in LA. Doing my research, I've noticed some things about the way the LA area is laid out that surprises me, and not in a good way. Dallas has just as much sprawl as LA, but without the ridiculous traffic problems. Perhaps LA can take some inspiration from Dallas here: - In Dallas, all arterials are six-lane divided highways, and even a large chunk of our collectors are four-lane divided highways. Bidirectional turn lanes are virtually nonexistent. In the LA area, very few surface streets are divided, with only Orange County making heavy use of divided highways, and bidirectional turn lanes are used all over the place. Bidirectional turn lanes slow down traffic, and divided highways help prevent accidents. LA should kill the turn lanes and start installing medians. - North Texas has spent most of the 21st century retiring its old cloverleaf interchanges and replacing them with five-level stack interchanges, which are more efficient and allow traffic to flow through faster. Is LA doing that? - Virtually all freeways in Texas have frontage roads equipped with Texas U-turns [0]. You don't see that in California. - In the Dallas area, most tech companies are located in the suburbs, and virtually all companies moving their HQ to Texas from out of state are building their campuses in the suburbs too. LA, on the other hand, insists on stuffing most of their tech industry in the Westside. Let's get these companies out of the city and into the SFV, OC, SGV, and Inland Empire. - Sadly, LA is screwed because of its natural boundaries. The mountains may be pretty, but they get in the way of commuting. I don't think there's anything that can be done about that. Palmdale and the area north of it is the future of development of Los Angeles County... just make sure it's self sufficient so nobody has to commute across the mountains. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_U-turn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_U-turn