This could have been LA. Imagine Tokyo but with the SoCal climate. And NYC should have 10 million more people, minimum.
This could have been LA. Imagine Tokyo but with the SoCal climate. And NYC should have 10 million more people, minimum. https://t.co/UHMPkO42JR
@StatisticUrban Tokyo with SoCal climate would be... almost Tokyo.
@StatisticUrban Car companies ripped out all the street car lines to remove competition 🪦
@StatisticUrban Hollywood showed us that cars were grand and we all wanted cars. The end.
@StatisticUrban Mass transit doesn’t solve the water problem.
@StatisticUrban The Chandlers intended and sorta-designed and got many policy changes implemented so that Los Angeles would become exactly not city like the others. It's still different, at least in parts, and people like you shouldn't be out to wreck it. Joan Didion, 'Times Mirror Square'.
@StatisticUrban Nah, it’s better to spread out the population
@StatisticUrban If anyone wants to nerd out on LA’s mass transit potential, I highly recommend carving out some time for @NickAndert’s videos on YouTube.
@StatisticUrban It blows my mind how little NYC’s total population has changed in 80 years
@StatisticUrban It still might be (in 25 years). And you’re right, this should be the metro lines *today* (with plans for more).