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To Do in L.A.: Drool Over Imaginary Subway

5/01/2007 at 11:34 AM
Tags: Public Transportation, Maps, Events, Websites, Pipe Dreams (all tags)

The car rental weasels are so against this, it ain't even funny! If there's anywhere in the country tourists should be tempted into submitting themselves to a beating from, say, Hertz, it's Los Angeles, where a car is pretty much required if you want to get around. Lucky for Hertz & co., this won't be happening anytime soon ever before the year 2165, so there's plenty of time left for them to make good money at LAX, BUR and LGB.

Leave it to an overachieving Harvard student to solve L.A.'s public transportation problem with a click of his mouse. Damien Goodmon's "Get L.A. Moving" subway system mock-up made the rounds on the internets last fall, and it now has a proper home on the web. Powerpoint presentations and more are available at www.getlamoving.com. You can see Goodmon present the plan in person on Saturday, May 12 in Los Angeles.

[Photo: Get L.A. Moving]

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