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A few days ago, my good friend Daniel tried valiantly to convince me that the best thing I could do was move to Chicago. I really, really like Chicago. It's a great city.
But Los Angeles is where my heart is, regardless of practicality.
The guy who created the absolutely fantastic MetroRiderLA site wrote on my wall today that his belief that Southern California can become a great place for mass transit was reinvigorated. Yes.
We can help shape it. Like I was saying this morning regarding a different proposition, change happens incrementally in all aspects.
LA and the automobile is this love affair, there is an entire mythology built around Angelenos and their cars, that it is something that will never change.
But you've got downtown and Hollywood-area businesses raising money to pay for late-night Red Line service. You've got Los Angeles County agreeing to put aside parochialism and squabbling over who gets their fair share, in a terrible economy, no less, and adding to a sales tax, to invest in transit. That's a promise to improve the environment. This is a quality-of-life issue. To destroy the conception that LA is just a bunch of suburbs strung together by freeways.
It's not going to happen tomorrow, Lord knows. But here's a chance to do something big. To make an impact. An opportunity to create.
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