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LA is walkable. However I don't really like walking everywhere or taking public transportation so LA is the perfect city for me because it has many municipal p
by hparadiz 1y ago
LA is walkable.
However I don't really like walking everywhere or taking public transportation so LA is the perfect city for me because it has many municipal places I can park my car and then walk around.
Let me explain LA to you since you clearly don't understand it.
LA is a combination of many smaller cities. Each one, on it's own is a small micro city with everything you would expect. You can live in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Burbank, Sherman oaks, West Hollywood, Ktown, Beverly Hills, Sawtelle, etc. each one of those places has a very vibrant and walkable area with cute shops and restaurants and easy public transportation. If you live in those places you don't necessarily need a car.
The problem with LA is that you might want to go from one of these places to another and the walk would take a very long time because LA county is bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island. But you can walk it if you want.
LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. And is doing so rapidly.
- pantalaimon 1y agoIt's also mostly low density, single story housing which of course means that the distance to get anywhere will be quite substantial.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoDensity is pretty dispersed in hot pockets. You have places like koreatown with 45 thousand people a square mile.
- closewith 1y ago> LA is walkable. You and I have different definitions of walkable.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoMostly in the 70s, sunny, sidewalks everywhere, an actual street food culture, a bus network that spans the entire county and about half a dozen rail lines. Where does the goalpost have to move for people who have clearly never spent much time in LA to see it for what it is?
- malexw 1y ago> LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. That is demonstrably false. As I type this comment I can hear the sounds of excavators digging out a station for a new subway line in Toronto.
- closewith 1y agoPanama Metro Line 3, too, which is underground for 5km.
- runarberg 1y agoAll the extensions under construction to the Seattle‘s link light rail are grade separated and subway standard (or 3/4 if you count the Tacoma extension).
- johnnyanmac 1y agowhich Toronto? The biggest known Toronto isn't in the US.
- 12_throw_away 1y ago"[...] city in North America [...]"
- crubier 1y ago> LA is walkable. > However I don't really like walking everywhere Hint: If you don't like walking, then your city is not walkable. In actually walkable places, everyone likes to walk because it's so much better.
- gamblor956 1y agoHint: if you read the parent comment, you see that "LA" is actually a collection of many smaller cities, and that "LA" is geographically bigger than some states and so of course it is not completely walkable. LA is 44 miles long and 24 miles wide. And that's just the city of Los Angeles. The county of Los Angeles is 4000 square miles, and has over 80 cities, most of which are only separated from each other by a road. But LA Metro is the (geographically) largest public municipal public transportation system, so you can take a bus from one of of LA county to another. Downtown is walkable. Hollywood is walkable. Echo Park is walkable. Pasadena is walkable. Santa Monica is walkable. Long Beach is walkable. Culver City is walkable. Bevery Hills is walkable. Glendale is walkable. Burbank is walkable.
- closewith 1y ago> Downtown is walkable. Hollywood is walkable. Echo Park is walkable. Pasadena is walkable. Santa Monica is walkable. Long Beach is walkable. Culver City is walkable. Bevery Hills is walkable. Glendale is walkable. Burbank is walkable. In the same way that Everest is walkable. None are walkable cities by any reasonable definition.
- crubier 1y ago100% this. The person above has never been in any actually walkable city. Can't blame them, these are very rare in the US. (I haven't seen any yet).
- hparadiz 1y agoI'm out walking around LA all the time. Santa Monica alone is a beach town with an amazing ocean front. You don't need a car at all. I'm seriously sitting here doing the Obama shrug meme. It's stupid that I even have to point out a few things. Like that I was born in Europe, have been to Germany and Japan, and lived near NYC for a time so I probably know better than some European about my own city.
- nunez 1y agoLA with a subway system would be insanely clutch. Throw in a regional rail to SB and SD, and I won't need a rental car again when I go out there!