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by 535188B17C93743 592 days ago
California needs to just fully invest in nuclear. And regulate or use eminent domain to buy PG&E to socialize it. Costs would go down, executive pay would go down, reliability and issues related to forest fires would likely go down.

And they need to invest in better public transit. Imagine LA with SF-level public transit. Or SF with NYC-level public transit (or better).
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0max 592 days ago
LA county and the adjoining counties are roughly the same size as the Kanto Plain around Tokyo. The main difference is that Tokyo rebuilt their street car lines as heavy rail instead of turning them into automobile arterials.
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JBlue42 591 days ago
And Tokyo does have highways and large streets, they just aren't in constant gridlock because people have other options (not to mention many other factors at play in Japanese car-ownership).

Tokyo was so relaxing. Greater Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of CA and yet was so quiet.

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