[angdis]

Good for them. But sadly, people who live there are habituated to driving from everywhere to everywhere simply because home, workplace and "third places" (shopping,recreation,entertainment,etc) are 10's of miles apart from each other.

When the sprawling highways were put in, nobody ever considered that everybody would get sick of driving all the time and that each highway widening project would precipitate even more driving and ever-increasing congestion.

Fortunately, there are some compact mainstreet communities in the LA area. These are excellent candidates for complete streets and biking infrastructure. If this can nucleate in some communities more folks will gravitate towards communities with less driving. That will be a very "long game" process however.

[cpncrunch]

>Fortunately, there are some compact mainstreet communities in the LA area

Yeah, Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach come to mind. Although I'm not sure it's really feasible for the average person to be able to afford to live in these areas.

[ariwilson]

DTLA is increasingly becoming like this.