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Not talked about here - that the upper (and middle) class intentionally built their communities to be minimally accessible to keep the riffraff out. That of cou
by taurath 7y ago
Not talked about here - that the upper (and middle) class intentionally built their communities to be minimally accessible to keep the riffraff out. That of course making the traffic hell that people are trying to get away from. Nobody can live near where they work because they can’t afford it. Traffic is as much a housing and economic problem as it is an engineering one.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoOr because the communities were built before car culture totally took over the area. I think it's more dependent on geography/geology. Some of these gnarly streets are in places like the Hollywood Hills, where people try and get around the chokepoint that is created by the Sepulveda pass. But plenty of them are in working class neighborhoods like Echo Park, like this very steep street: https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-echo-park-traffic-20180404-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-echo-pa...