Streetsblog Los Angeles

I agree with the Guardian article. Having lived in London briefly, I am amazed at how well the Brits are regenerating their cities.

The tragedy of Los Angeles was six decades of social engineering in favor of the automobile. The assumption that sprawl could go on indefinitely and that cheap gas would always be available, and there would be no long-term harm to Los Angeles’ economic and environmental well-being due to ever worsening congestion, therefore no real public transit infrastructure was necessary.

Inevitable recentralization along transit corridors is the only sensible planning way forward, if it happens, if that transit had been built. It would have been so much better (and cheaper) to have rationally planned for the future.