It's not just about a lack of interest in walking. If your infrastructure is extremely hostile to walking, it's outright dangerous and unreliable and force people out of it.

>our national health picture would look very different.

It wouldn't, you'd need to change the food industry for that to happen.

No, consistent exercise is more than enough to make a significant difference. I didn’t say it would be fixed, I said it would be very different.

you know what they say: you can't outrun a bad diet.

I’ll take that still. It’s bananas to me that more people aren’t in favour of public transit only for that reason.

THe history doesn't help. LA is a huge area and California is traditionally very rocky and hilly. The great weather and modern industrialism is the reason people continued to flock here after the Gold Rush. But anyone playing Orgeon trails knows how rough getting to California was to begin with.

There's definitely amenities that can be done to make LA walkable regardless, but I understand that nature did not intent for this settlement to be human friendly.