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 transportation dystopia: a sprawling, smog-choked,
auto-obsessed spaghetti bowl of freeways which meander from one bland
suburban
destination to the next. The heroes of the picture are cities like
San
Francisco, or especially New York, which are said to have created vastly
more
livable urban forms based on density and mass transit. [emphasis added]
Wow. I know BART is great, but - as anyone who uses rides in SF on a regular basis can tell you - it is unfair to include Muni in the category of successful mass transit systems. Let's hope that the agency doesn't disingenuously source this particular blurb from the NY Times in any self-aggrandizing public notices.
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