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The 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
by Aloha 12y ago
The 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...