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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3637 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Planners and Engineers Badly Overestimate Car Traffic By 4500%

    It's too low density to have good walking / transit options, but too high density to make room for highways.

2nd densest CSA in the USA, yo

I would say that any modeling that has to disregard Los Angeles is useless. As I understand it, Los Angeles is Los Angeles primarily because it didn't fully participate in the highway revolts; I know the proposed map of seattle is a nightmare on wax. By not putting all the roads in, Seattle stayed livable. Los Angeles went the other way.

Nonetheless, it's one outcome of a common core of development and hardly unique.