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It won't, ever. And that's okay. LA County won't be served by an awesome network of public transit, but if investments continue into dense areas of LA City you
by eclipxe 12y ago
It won't, ever. And that's okay. LA County won't be served by an awesome network of public transit, but if investments continue into dense areas of LA City you should see market forces at work -> public transit availability driving higher density development, driving more desire for public transit.
You can't de-sprawl Southern California as a whole, but you can make the dense urban core more palatable.
- Aloha 12y agoThe sprawl in the LA metro area was built on the back of the then largest interurban system in the world, the Pacific Electric. If you take a map and overlay it on the modern freeway system, there are large parallels. There are also parts of LA City that have (and not even recently acquired) density rivaling Manhattan. The future of maintainable sprawl is workable wide ranging rail and bus options, rail for the distance, bus for the last mile.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoThere was an interesting study recently showing that population density in LA is still greatest along the long-vanished streetcar lines. It's also worth noting the streetcar lines were built specifically to serve land development goals, so they drove the development in the first place, not the other way around. In a way, streetcars caused the sprawl of Los Angeles. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/09/23/long-dead-streetcars-still-shape-l-a-neighborhoods/chronicles/who-we-were/ http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/09/23/long-dead-stree...
- avn2109 12y ago>> "You can't de-sprawl Southern California as a whole..." Wait till the key parameters of our present socioeconomic order are perturbed. A lot of ducks have to line up in a row for suburbs to work at LA scale, and something tells me the party won't continue indefinitely.
- eclipxe 12y agoCan you be more concrete?