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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by johnnyanmac on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:36PM (#44242684)
No matter how accessible you make it, humans in the modern era can't just walk around 15+ miles a day and do any other kind of commerce. LA is just a huge, hilly city. Even with full bipartisan support and unlimited funding, it's a fundamentally harder problem to make LA walkable compared to something like Copenhagen.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by closewith on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @05:48AM (#44245838)
Well, yeah, that is the point.

Making a walkable LA would mean making a much smaller urban area (or series of much smaller) with much higher population density and ideally rewilding most of the LA metro area. It is functionally impossible in the current political environment.

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