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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Los Angeles and São Paulo are the two most car centric mega cities that I've visited, but L.A. is far more car centric than SP.
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Yes, LA is definitely more car-centric. São Paulo subway/railway systems carry 8 million passengers daily. Buses another 8 million. LA comes nowhere close to it. However those big numbers disguise how car-centric SP is. It's actually a cultural thing and fortunately younger generations are turning back to cars.
But back to the number of cars, São Paulo state (44.4 million people) has 33.26 million registered vehicles (Dec/2023) of which 6.77 million are motorbikes. 26.5 million cars. I don't want to do the math for the 38 municipalities comprising metro area, but I'd guess
12.5 million or so are registered on the metro area (20.7 million people).
Los Angeles CSA still has more cars than São Paulo metro area. How many cars there? 14-15 million? Of course LA CSA is a way too generous definition for LA metro area.