Los Angeles Transportation Facts and Fiction: Freeways
We’ve been running a quiz about stereotypical views of transportation and urbanization in Los Angeles. Consider a headline that ran in The New York Times in 2006: “In Land of Freeways, Mass Transit...
View ArticleAnother View of Los Angeles
Eric Morris has been busting L.A. transportation myths lately with his Fact and Fiction posts. For yet another unusual view of Los Angeles, check out this beautiful set of photos in Good magazine by...
View ArticleLos Angeles Transportation Facts and Fiction: Transit
Photo: ceeb Inside a Los Angeles bus. In the last posts, we learned that Los Angeles is not a poster child for sprawl, that the air has gotten a lot cleaner, and that the freeway network is...
View ArticleAnother View of Los Angeles
Eric Morris has been busting Los Angeles transportation myths with his L.A.: Fact or Fiction posts lately, which may have changed the way you view the City of Angels. Photographer Mathieu Young brings...
View ArticleLos Angeles Transportation Facts and Fiction: Driving and Delay
Photo: The Toe Stubber Time to bring the quiz to a close. We’ve seen in past posts that, by the standards of U.S. cities, Los Angeles is not sprawling, has a fairly extensive transit system, and is...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Walk Score?
Here’s a website worth checking out if you own a good pair of shoes and don’t mind using them once in a while. It’s called Walk Score and it gauges the pedestrian-friendliness of locations. Type in any...
View ArticleTouring Gangland
A group of civic activists in Los Angeles plans to start giving “Gang Tours” — taking busloads of tourists through some of the most dangerous parts of the city — in hopes of “sensitizing people,...
View ArticleUCLA’s Crime Fighting Mathematicians
(iStockphoto) A team of mathematicians at UCLA have created an algorithm that can identify with relative accuracy which Los Angeles gang is responsible for an unsolved crime. When tested against cases...
View ArticleThe Free Harbor Fight: Transportation Meets Chinatown
(Photo: Green Fire Productions) Unlike its natural rivals—San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle—Los Angeles is a rotten place for a port. But that hasn’t stopped the city known for inventing and...
View ArticleParking Is Hell: A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast
(Photo: @gueamu) This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of our episode “Parking Is Hell.” (You can subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also read the...
View ArticleLos Angeles Transportation Facts and Fiction: Sprawl
In a previous post I challenged you to identify which of six common stereotypes about transportation and land use in Los Angeles is actually true. The first is that Los Angeles has developed in a...
View ArticleThe FREAK-est Links
“Womenomics” on the rise. Want crime stats, school rankings, and home listings in L.A.? Look no further. Government to increase use of pilotless planes. (Earlier) Are there factual errors in An...
View ArticleOnly in Los Angeles
I made a quick visit to Los Angeles last week, in an attempt to jump start my languishing acting career. (I’ll let you figure out whether I’m joking. If you aren’t sure, ask someone who knows me.)...
View ArticleLos Angeles Transportation: Facts and Fiction
Photo: respres We at U.C.L.A. hear from reporters a lot, and they are often looking for a few quotes to help write a familiar script. In it, Los Angeles is cast in the role of the nation’s...
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