[Ebbc-Talk] L.A. Metro: How Los Angeles is becoming America’s next great mass-transit city. - Slate Magazine

> The usual response to too much traffic in the United States is to  
> strangle growth. New development would mean more cars would mean  
> more traffic, so cities adopt rules to block new development.
> That’s how San Mateo County between San Francisco and Silicon Valley  
> managed to muster a measly 1.6 percent population growth in the past  
> decade despite enviable access to two of the highest-wage labor  
> markets in America. Over the past 20 years, however, L.A. has chosen  
> the bolder path of investing in the kind of infrastructure that can  
> support continued population growth, and shifting land use to  
> encourage more housing and more people.


http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_pivot/2012/09/l_a_metro_how_los_angeles_is_becoming_america_s_next_great_mass_transit_city_.html



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