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Sure, if people in Hollywood would be developers instead of actors, the world would be a better place, LA certainly so. All kidding aside, I think the solution
by Torwald 9y ago
Sure, if people in Hollywood would be developers instead of actors, the world would be a better place, LA certainly so.
All kidding aside, I think the solution to this sort of problem, and specially LA, would be to have an open market for public transportation.
The city council could hand out coupons for transportation to the poor, so they can commute to work. (The transportation companies would take those coupons and get the cash for it from the city.)
Such a system would be a much better investments of tax dollars then the currently offering of public transportation.
- chrischen 9y agoPublic transit and density is a chicken and egg problem. Without adequate transit, density is impossible (everyone can't fit their cars in a dense neighborhood), and without adequate density, public transit is unprofitable. The only solution is decades of highly subsidized public transit and pro-density policies, until it fills the profit gap.
- chrischen 9y agoAnother possible alternative is to promote privatized public transit and allow the transit companies to invest in dense developments and real estate at stations. An example is in Japan where private train lines take people in from the outskirts of Tokyo into downtown where the line terminates at a transfer point with malls built by the transit company at the station.