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Originally Posted by hipster duck
It's also not a city where you can take advantage of freight railway corridors and highway medians to build a grade-separated rapid transit system quickly (like the other 70s Metro systems),
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No, the unavailability of any disused ROW's or a freight railroad to parallel is the advantage of LA's heavy rail subway system. It means that almost all of the stations are built exactly where they need to be.
The whole reason why postwar transit systems in the United States tend to suck is because the federal funding structure incentivized the use of pre-existing ROW's, which means you might get a few good stations, but most will be in crap locations.
St. Louis, for example, was able to build subway stations in an existing old freight railroad tunnel. But most of their light rail network has crap station locations. Like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6298187,...570INbn7G3Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
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