Good Article on the death of Exurbs

[LuckyGem]

Originally Posted by majoun

Jefferson Blvd. and Lincoln Blvd. both have bus lines. No rail anywhere nearby nor is there going to be rail anywhere nearby.



The industrial area by the Culver City/Baldwin Hills border is not exactly around the corner from the Playa Vista development.

There should have been rail extending down Lincoln to connect Santa Monica with LAX, and when the Playa Vista development was proposed there should have been a requirement for the developers to provide rail links.

Where the heck would a rail line go? We have enough issue with them widening the 405 at Sepulveda. Rail is not practical on the westside.

Rail is not practical anywhere in Los Angeles. Nobody uses it as it stands now, because it doesn't GO anywhere useful for the majority of people in the most congested corridors.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by LuckyGem

Where the heck would a rail line go? We have enough issue with them widening the 405 at Sepulveda. Rail is not practical on the westside.

Freeways aren't practical on the westside either, maybe the 405 should be torn down. Or even better, it never should have been built, nor should the 10 have been built, considering what was destroyed to build both.

If that rail line going down Lincoln would have been built it would have been used.

Rail is not practical anywhere in Los Angeles. Nobody uses it as it stands now, because it doesn't GO anywhere useful for the majority of people in the most congested corridors.

If you lived closer to the Metro you wouldn't say this. Driving in Los Angeles has become a nightmare, buses don't work because they use the same roads as cars, and not having rail is not practical for L.A.

The only reason it 'doesn't go anywhere useful for the majority of people in the most congested corridors" is because right now it does not go west of Highland Avenue. (And in what universe is the Hollywood/Highland area not one of the most congested corridors in L.A.?)

[gwynedd1]

Originally Posted by bolehboleh

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/op...%2Findex.jsonp

It will happen again because we never learn. Now worthless land in the middle of a city like Detroit will be rebuilt, financialized, purchased on credit, until the only industry is the banks collecting all the surplus as interest which will erode the land value and start the cycle over again. That is how it works on these 50-60 year cycles. Its the time it takes for the finance industry to squeeze the value from an area. The only place this doesn't happen is where the bankers live.