Comments on: Without a Car in the World Public Program 3: Walking in LA with DJ Waldie – Tonight! http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/11/without-a-car-in-the-world-public-program-3-walking-in-la-with-dj-waldie-tonight/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brady Westwater http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/11/without-a-car-in-the-world-public-program-3-walking-in-la-with-dj-waldie-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-48151 Brady Westwater Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:14 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=20141#comment-48151 I am entering my 10th year Downtown with no car and while it has limited me in some of things I used to do - my living and working in a walkable area and not being dependent upon public transportation is the only way it can work for me. And that needs to be the future of development in LA. Highly dense, walkable centers - connected by rail to other dense walkable areas. But one has to also realize and accept that the much of the rest of the city will still be largely dependent upon the car and that further increasing density in those areas will never make them dense enough for rail but will make too crowded for cars and buses to properly service those neighborhoods. I am entering my 10th year Downtown with no car and while it has limited me in some of things I used to do – my living and working in a walkable area and not being dependent upon public transportation is the only way it can work for me.

And that needs to be the future of development in LA. Highly dense, walkable centers – connected by rail to other dense walkable areas. But one has to also realize and accept that the much of the rest of the city will still be largely dependent upon the car and that further increasing density in those areas will never make them dense enough for rail but will make too crowded for cars and buses to properly service those neighborhoods.

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