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Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by cylinder on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:45PM (#11355835)
LA was built by people who were escaping the stressful dense urban life of the east coast. Not hard to understand why, when they arrived at empty land by the ocean with perfect weather, they didn't resolve to build a bunch of apartment towers.
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Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by refurb on Friday March 25, 2016 @01:14AM (#11358596)
This is a great point. Why do so many people in the US live on large lots with huge houses in the suburbs? Because we can.
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