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Old Posted May 1, 2012, 2:03 PM
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Courageous and costly to develop commuter rail and rail transit in the LA region, given its huge surface area, low density, and reliance on cars and freeways.

I often thought it couldn't be done in Southern California, but praiseworthy to see them forging ahead with anything so daunting, ambitious, and costly.

Here in Vancouver, our RRT system (still being built onto) is a great success with daily ridership approaching that of Philadelphia, in a city of only 2.3m metro; not only through engineering, but because natural geographic constraints on the city force it to be relatively compact, thereby often very dense in large nodes.

Perhaps "city centres" or "town centres" will develop in the LA region, too, thereby justifying, and enhancing, any rail transit infrastructure built.
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