Re: Interesting op-ed piece focusing on L.A. Freeways


As I posted on the other thread about the cost of solving the
transportation problems of the greater Los Angeles area, the only
realistic solution is to essentially replace the entire Southern
California region's existing single-family dominated residential
development pattern with a multiple-family dominated residential
development pattern.

It will also take a huge paradigm shift among those who live in the
more desirable, closer-in locations within Los Angeles itself and some
of its neighboring municipalities -- a shift away from the NIMBY-type
reflexive opposition to all new development and toward support for
densification and multi-family redevelopment (with the new stigma being
directed toward anybody proposing the construction of new SINGLE-family
subdivisions).

This is the ONLY realistic solution to traffic problems in the Southern
California urban region.

Ah, yes. The New Yorkization of SoCal. This has obviously worked so
well for NYC (New Yorkers are now in every state in the Union except
Neb.), that SoCal should jump in with both feet. Boise, Sioux Falls,
Salt Lake City, and other family-friendly areas of the country will
thank SoCal for the new families wanting those stigma-driven
single-family homes for decades to come. Not to mention, they'll also
thank SoCal for the jobs that will come with those families.

I don't know. Maybe we should merely accept what is obvious: That
dynamic urban areas will always have traffic issues of any sort, and
that all we can do is manage the assets available to the best of our
ability.

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