Los Angeles Design Collective
Friday, September 01, 2006
  More People, Less Space
While morons at the Reason Foundation (CMD Link) cry over public transit and insist that all we need are few more roads, the bulk of common sense and planning points to the exact opposite for a solution to the transit quagmire. With questionable reasoning, the "Libertarian thinktank" wants to jam another thumb in the dyke, proposing billions of dollars in freeways.

Such nonsense is hardly worth the conversation, but it is important to remind the world at large that these voices have always existed, that there were like moans over rock'n'roll (the devil's music), the car, and even aircraft. So rather than building more freeways (technology from the 1950s), we should instead be looking to transit options that are worthy of the future. More people moving in less space should be our model.
 


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Population, City of Los Angeles: 3,957,875 (2005), Annual Growth Rate: 1.13% (2005), Service Miles, MTA: 1,433, Bus Stops: 18,500, Total Monthly Boardings, MTA: 34,775,877 (June 2006), Regional Population: 9,937,739 (2005), Regional Homeless: 91,000 (2005), Licensed Taxis: 2300
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Population, City of Tokyo: 12,544,205 (2005), Annual Growth Rate: .7% (2005), Total Annual Boardings, East Japan Railways: 3,117,237 (2004), Estimated Homeless in Tokyo: 4000-5000 Further information (available in Excel format!)

Population, City of New York: 8,008,278 (2002), Annual Growth Rate: . % (2005), Service Miles, MTA: 1,871, Annual Ridership: 740 million, Subway stations: 468, Annual Ridership, Subway: 1.4 billion, Licensed Taxis: 12,778, Regional Population: 11,685,650 (2001), Regional Homeless: 48,155 (2005), New York City Shelters: 31,961

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