Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
by jonknee on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:55PM
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Amsterdam has ~1.5m people in the metro area while LA has ~18m (more than The Netherlands in total!). They're just not comparable in terms of infrastructure. LA is also growing very rapidly (it's added 2 Amsterdam's worth of people since just 1990!) which makes it difficult to properly plan infrastructure.
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Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
by yxhuvud on Saturday August 22, 2015 @10:55AM
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They are not directly comparable, but not for the reason you state. Thing is, mass transit scale a heck of a lot better than highways do when population rises.
Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
by revelation on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:58PM
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You're right they are not comparable in infrastructure, there are no dedicated bike lanes forming a connected network, but there are surely lots of dead pedestrians and car carnage.