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>"los angeles is perfect for bike transport." Except that LA is a sprawl and almost nothing is close together. Maybe if you live at the beach its nice.

k_sh 9y ago
True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go. Also, a bicycle can serve as a last-mile connector to the transit system - imagine someone who lives at Wilshire and La Brea but works in West Hollywood, and would like to take the Red Line, but doesn't want to lose an hour to walking.
- ghostly_s 9y ago
  > True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go. Isn't LA like, the single place on earth where this is least true?
  - sulam 9y ago
    Most Texas cities are arguably worse, but since it's Texas, the expectations are pretty low.
- bogomipz 9y ago
  >"True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go" I have never heard this before? Do you a citation for this? More likely in LA is that people simply "limit their tether to 5 miles."
clairity 9y ago
the LA i live in (not at the beach) allows me to walk/bike/bus/train to basically anywhere i want to go, most of which is within 5 miles of where i live. when i need to go farther, i can take a lyft or rent a car. but you gotta get over that perception of sprawl to realize how great LA is for multi-modal transport.
- bogomipz 9y ago
  >"but you gotta get over that perception of sprawl to realize how great LA is for multi-modal transport" multi-modal transport? You mean the bus? The bus in LA is a joke. Nobody wants to take the bus in LA - it takes way to long to get anywhere. The metro is notable in how little area it covesr. I think this map illustrates this well: https://media.timeout.com/images/103334943/image.jpg https://media.timeout.com/images/103334943/image.jpg So what does that leave? Cars. You yourself even mentioned ""Lyft and renting a car." Owning a car, renting a car and calling a car are all car-centric modes of transport. And LA doesn't have a perception of sprawl it is actually sprawl.

k_sh 9y ago

True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go. Also, a bicycle can serve as a last-mile connector to the transit system - imagine someone who lives at Wilshire and La Brea but works in West Hollywood, and would like to take the Red Line, but doesn't want to lose an hour to walking.

ghostly_s 9y ago
> True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go. Isn't LA like, the single place on earth where this is least true?
- sulam 9y ago
  Most Texas cities are arguably worse, but since it's Texas, the expectations are pretty low.
bogomipz 9y ago
>"True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go" I have never heard this before? Do you a citation for this? More likely in LA is that people simply "limit their tether to 5 miles."

clairity 9y ago

the LA i live in (not at the beach) allows me to walk/bike/bus/train to basically anywhere i want to go, most of which is within 5 miles of where i live. when i need to go farther, i can take a lyft or rent a car. but you gotta get over that perception of sprawl to realize how great LA is for multi-modal transport.

bogomipz 9y ago
>"but you gotta get over that perception of sprawl to realize how great LA is for multi-modal transport" multi-modal transport? You mean the bus? The bus in LA is a joke. Nobody wants to take the bus in LA - it takes way to long to get anywhere. The metro is notable in how little area it covesr. I think this map illustrates this well: https://media.timeout.com/images/103334943/image.jpg https://media.timeout.com/images/103334943/image.jpg So what does that leave? Cars. You yourself even mentioned ""Lyft and renting a car." Owning a car, renting a car and calling a car are all car-centric modes of transport. And LA doesn't have a perception of sprawl it is actually sprawl.