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L.A. Mayor's Vision For The City

Posted by: Brenda Meyer

10 December 2005 - 5:00am

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlines his ideal future for the city -- including better public transit and more affordable housing.

"Villaraigosa, a history major at UCLA, wants Los Angeles to become 'the Venice of the 21st century' — a reference to the powerhouse city-state that dominated European trade in the 15th century.

...Villaraigosa's ideal city would be a prosperous 'global capital' with affordable housing, good schools -- and residents riding trains.

'We need to imagine a future in which Los Angeles is ... the global capital linking the manufacturing economies of the east with the emerging markets of the south...' " Villaraigosa said.

Full Story: Mayor Shares Vision for L.A.
Source: The Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2005
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This is Vision?

Submitted by Robert Cote on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 07:00.

"We are not going to build more freeways in the city of Los Angeles,"

That's not -vision- that's capitulation. He's just told every potential business that he's not concerned with addressing the number one structural impediment to running a business in LA. More rail transit? He might as well have added that he's giving out flashlights to every new business to help them through the coming age of persistent electricity blackouts.

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