I agree with you in part - we do have 100 years of development patterns baked into concrete and steel, but they were not originally built just for cars. LA was

I agree with you in part - we do have 100 years of development patterns baked into concrete and steel, but they were not originally built just for cars. LA was built around interurbans, the idea that I should drive my car all the way from San Bernardino (or frankly even from Pasadena) to Los Angeles would be foreign to the original planners and builders in Southern California. Consider that every major freeway in LA is basically in whole or in part paralleling a former PE line, and suddenly my assertion doesnt seem so odd. https://www.pacificelectric.org/collections/pacific-electric-railway-historical-society-collection/1926-pacific-electric-railway-system-map/ https://www.pacificelectric.org/collections/pacific-electric... LA is not the only place where the sprawled layout was created by interurbans, Arguably to a greater or lesser extent - Detroit, Dallas, Cleveland, Cincinatti, and there are others whose early development was deeply influenced by the interurban exist.