Transportation

L.A.'s New Mobility Plan Envisions a Different Kind of City

Its car-reliant reputation might become a thing of the past.
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Los Angeles has a new blueprint for its transportation future called Mobility Plan 2035. The city council just approved it this week by a 12-2 vote, and the reaction has been … mixed. Some people think the plan, which will put a new emphasis on non-automobile forms of transportation, creating more dedicated lanes for bikes and buses, is terrific. And some people really, really don’t.

The editorial board at the Los Angeles Times called it “an L.A. transit plan with vision,” saying that “[i]t's time for L.A. to shed its traditional automobile-centric approach and evolve into a modern, multimodal city.”