Ppl with $$ started abandoning bunker hill over 80 yrs ago. that was when LA actually had one of the best transit systems in the world, known as the red cars.
How come SF never fall apart the way dtla did? was it cuz of cable cars? but that system was mainly localized. SF didn't have BART til 1972. so did cable cars prevent SF from becoming burbanized the way LA did?
Did hoods like samo & pasadena not go downhill---& become as battered up as dtla---cuz of better transit? Are the hoods around century city or ucla nice cuz of transit?
anyone who believes transit is the silver bullet for preventing burbanization, or that lack of transit is why hoods like dt went downhill, have to remember one important thing: ppl started to migrate away from the center of LA over 60 yrs ago, before most fwys were built & before the red car system had been shut down.
IOW, if only ONE thing could be changed about LA----& it could be either improving transit or making hoods nicer (but not both)----I'd pick the option of making LA's older hoods nicer from the beginning. The other option ends up putting the cart before the horse.
It's a given that modern transit in LA has to be improved & forcing everyone onto fwys is a joke. the red line should have been extended over 10 yrs ago. Unfortunately, dumb politicians were worried about methane gas or believed that ppl in LA should use cars or buses instead of rail.
but if anyone thinks that improving rail transit (& buses are zzzzz, plus they get stuck in the same traffic with cars) guarantees that hoods in LA no longer will be so
& abandoned by ppl with $$----& isn't as concerned about making hoods look less bad----they're ignoring hard reality & the history of LA.
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