Zócalo Public SquareCan the City of Lights Solve the Traffic Woes of the City of Angels? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Can the City of Lights Solve the Traffic Woes of the City of Angels? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/12/08/can-the-city-of-lights-solve-the-traffic-woes-of-the-city-of-angels/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/12/08/can-the-city-of-lights-solve-the-traffic-woes-of-the-city-of-angels/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:01:41 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=57090 In London, tourists happily buy T-shirts and mugs with the city’s iconic Underground logo or “Mind the Gap” slogan. The New York subway’s signage for famous stops like Grand Central or Penn Station is immediately recognizable throughout the world. These dense, global cities can market public transit as fun, stylish, and efficient. But visitors to Los Angeles probably won’t commemorate a bus or Metro ride with a souvenir—they are more likely to get stuck in traffic after landing at LAX. Could L.A. improve mobility—and achieve worldwide renown—by emulating transportation systems in other global cities like London or Hong Kong? In advance of the Zócalo/Metro event “Is L.A. Mobile Enough to Be a Global City?”, we asked transit experts, planners, and scholars to tell us what global cities L.A. should look to as a model for a 21st-century transportation system.

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]]> In London, tourists happily buy T-shirts and mugs with the city’s iconic Underground logo or “Mind the Gap” slogan. The New York subway’s signage for famous stops like Grand Central or Penn Station is immediately recognizable throughout the world. These dense, global cities can market public transit as fun, stylish, and efficient. But visitors to Los Angeles probably won’t commemorate a bus or Metro ride with a souvenir—they are more likely to get stuck in traffic after landing at LAX.

Could L.A. improve mobility—and achieve worldwide renown—by emulating transportation systems in other global cities like London or Hong Kong? In advance of the Zócalo/Metro event “Is L.A. Mobile Enough to Be a Global City?”, we asked transit experts, planners, and scholars to tell us what global cities L.A. should look to as a model for a 21st-century transportation system.

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