RE: [Reader comment]: "The traffic problem has many factors..."

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Open Discussion: Subway: "...ready to be taxed for...":

The traffic problem has many factors...

-Old streets that were never meant for buses (let alone the mega buses, that are stretched twice as long. Say on Vermont in Koreatown. Just completely insane to run these huge buses all day on these old dilapidated streets.Say Vermont and Washington. It creates chaos on the right lane.

-The freeways are from the 50's. Hopeless. The pasadena freeway, lol. Its a joke in 2008.

-Overzealous builders.

-Lack of leadership.

-Huge gap in the rich and the poor. Terrible schools. If 30 or 40% of highschool kids drop out, that must keep adding pressure on the bus system. And lots of other factors.

Posted by Anonymous to L.A. traffic sucks: Let's fix it! at 6:52 PM
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He is right, of course, and I agree and thank this reader for his comment. I am sure, though, that each one of us can come up with a list of factors contributing to the problem.

But like I always said, the only reason I pointed out the reasons for the problem, or the only reason I created the blog in the first place, was to come up with SOLUTIONS to the problem, not to "rant and rave" about it like some may have believed. I was, and I am, only interested in SOLUTIONS to the problem. I really see no other reason to talk about it. Academic discussions can be left to the academics and their hypothetical but impractical "solutions" can be left where they belong: in academia. Real solutions to real life problems should be seriously considered.

I believe this is a serious problem, perhaps one of the most serious problems facing metropolitan areas the world over this century. Somebody somewhere in positions of power, influence and authority should start making it a priority to find ways to solve it.