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City Beautiful

Why is LA traffic so bad?

City Beautiful · Nov 12, 2026 · 13:18

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Watch over 2,400 documentaries with Curiosity Stream for free for a month by signing up at http://curiositystream.com/citybeautiful and using the code, "citybeautiful" at checkout.I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulVox's great video on induced demand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7o3sRxA5gThis video is a synthesis of several sources, including:- L.A.’s Invisible Freeway Revolt: The Cultural Politics of Fighting Freeways: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096144214536857?casa_token=iCdW3tEK1XgAAAAA:ZBbFvdh-cG-YnpX5n6lNE98BoWQ5triTscTvSByUq_11_sv55i-3rsA-vVK7NmE80r5TaqknGfw- The Day that People Filled the Freeway: Re-Envisioning the Arroyo Seco Parkway, and the Urban Environment in Los Angeles: https://escholarship.org/content/qt93z9j60t/qt93z9j60t.pdf- Planning for Cars in Cities: Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01944360802640016?casa_token=HBPG8WrTN5kAAAAA:XI4MnUAdej4SA4-wOq8XYLJfIWCVPDg-gEhSTz65RSXzRzZbaC26LpstAUDzREQku51wLJbChLQ- When Finance Leads Planning: Urban Planning, Highway Planning, andMetropolitan Freeways in California: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X0002000206- https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/traffic-effects-research- https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-road-noise-20160109-story.html- https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/la-metro-transportation-plan-congestion-equity/585935/- https://media.metro.net/2020/LRTP-2020-Final.pdfProduced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California.Edited by Ryan Alva in Los Angeles, California.Audio by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.
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