>>1231308>A subway system grows in LaLa Land >LOS ANGELE'S (AP) — After five decades of dependence on smog-belching automobiles, the city where cars are king of the road ushers in a new era in transposition Saturday: its first modem subway. >[...]Some, including James Moore, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Southern California, predict the subway is doomed because low ridership will make it too expensive to operate. >“I think we will eventually abandon our rail policy. We’ll sink a lot of money into it, but in the end voters are going to decide to call an end to it," he said. Moore and other critics contend Los Angeles' population ’ isn’t concentrated enough to support a subway. "Heavy rail makes sense in high-density locations. ... It makes less sense in LA., where people and jobs are dispersed throughout the region." aid Martin Waehs,- professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
January 29th, 1993
