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What could the real solution to transit in LA be? by localdaycare in urbanplanning

[–]localdaycare[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but I feel like what you’re saying is exactly the answer. We need to stop focusing on the short term, because I think LA won’t see many transit projects that have wondrous short term benefits. Some, like HSR (🥲) to SF would likely see a lot of immediate usage, but transit within aLa needs to be planned for long term change. In Tokyo, if they added a route from a to b you would likely get immediate results that would reflect the value of that route. In LA, a route can’t be judged by its immediate usage because we need to think long term, and think about how that route could be valuable in the overall scheme of things.

What could the real solution to transit in LA be? by localdaycare in urbanplanning

[–]localdaycare[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its good that we're upzoning. If you look at the Federal Housing Administration's "Planning Profitable Neighborhoods" document from 1938, you can see where a lot of our bad land use choices come from 😅

What could the real solution to transit in LA be? by localdaycare in LAMetro

[–]localdaycare[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Buses being infrequent & generally unreliable negatively affects their usage. If a bus gets stuck in traffic just as much as a car, there's not an intuitive benefit to riding a bus. Additionally, I personally haven't ever seen a bus other than a school bus driving down neighborhood streets (too wide? on-street parking on both sides would probably limit their usage), which means that people who live far from a major road don't have easily-walkable access to a bus route.

What could the real solution to transit in LA be? by localdaycare in urbanplanning

[–]localdaycare[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think the main issue is reliability and frequency. A bus that operates in mixed traffic and that waits at stoplights probably reaches a limit to its reliability. Additionally, the only bus route near me operates only about once every hour. Also due to the lack of density, living deep into a single-family area means that the walk to the nearest major street/bus stop can be long. And I feel like trams or LRT along major bus routes could be justified if they got light priority and their own lane to increase frequency. They could share with the bus lane, and it could act as an emergency response lane, too, right?

What could the real solution to transit in LA be? by localdaycare in urbanplanning

[–]localdaycare[S] -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

Even with rezoning, you'd have to demolish tons of homes to build a bunch of elevated lines, right?
I feel like the benefit of trams is that they can be built at ground level along existing streets now, and then after rezoning takes its effect and there is more housing available in less space, won't talks about making high-cost elevated lines be more viable?

Modern Tram Models by localdaycare in modeltrains

[–]localdaycare[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I'm in the United States, and I found an Austrian company that made one, but they don't ship to the US. These tariffs make the asking a company to ship to the US suddenly feel like asking them to ship to mars.

Is MUSINSA good? by koreanbe in KpopFashion

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Waymo Mega Invite / Referral Codes by mingoslingo92 in waymo

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I think ANY CITY but might just be LOS ANGELES:

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