LA without a car (part 2) - Chris Arnade Walks the World
It is pretty easy not having a car in LA, easier than most people think, but that’s only because it has an exceptional network of buses. The actual walking from place to place part is pretty grim because LA is huge, spread out, and chopped up by highways, concrete rivers, and broad streets that might as well be highways. None of that is surprising, because LA is built for cars, especially at the macro level, and buses are just shared cars. I usually choose a cover photo with people in it, which is easy to do in most places because walking means meeting lots of people, regardless of if you want to. Which is over half the reason I walk. In LA though, few people walk longer than from their vehicle to the store, so for long stretches it’s only you and the hum of traffic. Beyond the homeless. The cover photo does have someone in it, hidden beneath their blue tarp home in the far left of the picture. Out of sight, lurking behind me, is a guy on a bicycle, his eyes glazed from drugs, who for
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