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Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan
Exactly right. It's the basics where la fails miserably. The easy stuff
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And that’s the frustrating thing about LA and the U.S. writ large. Basic, no-brainers in other cities/countries are treated as complex challenges here, with every “small victory” celebrated by politicians as if whatever “progress” they are touting will amount to anything transformative.
This isn’t limited to LA. Even our country’s “pride-and-joy city” of New York has a filthy subway system and no direct airport-to-city rail link, while the Silver Line in our capital DC still hasn’t reached Dulles.
Back to LA… miles and miles of arterial corridors lined with single-story retail strips and crap strip malls. Plenty of room to build enough housing for the 65,000+ homeless. Plenty of room for vertical growth to the point where we can quite literally build our way out of the affordable housing crisis. This in turn builds up the property tax revenue base and pays for better schools, street improvements/maintenance, subsidized housing, after-school programs for at-risk youth, etc.
Time to embrace change. Staying in the comfort zone is a perpetual treadmill (that goes for life in general).