Originally Posted by
Ekdog
Yes, I used to live there, as a matter of fact, and I don't share your cynicism. I had relatives who lived there when the area had an effective transit system which allowed people to live very well without a car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric
I don't share your cynicism of my opinion.
1) Don't use Wikipedia as a primary source.
2) An "effective" transit system is not a predictor of the public's willingness to let the gov't tell them they can't take their cars certain places within the city. I've been to many places with much, much more efficient and effective forms of public transit (Seoul is my favorite) and have observed that a) places like Indianapolis (and nearly everywhere else in the Midwest except Chicago) have terrible public transit, and b) those places with excellent transit systems have had and will have ubiquitous traffic & parking issues.