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Something Is Missing in This Red Line Picture
- Los Angeles: Routing of Metro and bus lines needs to
be connected to land use and not based on politics.
By Glenn Gritzner and Katherine Perez
The opening of the latest (and perhaps last) leg of the MTA's
Red Line occurred with much fanfare and promise about the city's
brightening future. At the same time, assorted but equally important
new findings in a study from UC Berkeley researchers released
by the California Department of Housing and Community Development
tell us that our region's difficulties with housing construction
are because of politics and not from a lack of available land as
many think.
Due to copyright restrictions, only the first paragraph of
this article is reprinted here. The full text appeared in the Los
Angeles Times on July 10, 2000.
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