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Old Posted Feb 15, 2010, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Acajack View Post
Just being the devil's advocate here, but aren't there some great cities in the world that don't have this... yet are still great metropolises? Los Angeles, maybe?
LA actually has a fairly functional transit system, that carries over a million riders per weekday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpo...in_Los_Angeles

It includes buses and a subway (yes, LA has a subway).

It's just that in newer car-based US cities, public transit = poor, car = rich, so people basically ignore public transit if they can.
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