"Why can't Los Angeles and Southern California have a world-class transportation system like other great cities?"
The experimental magnetic levitation transit system is too fast for urban use and unsuitable for the region's flexible needs. "This area crows that it is the capital city of the 21st century. "But its shoddy public systems betray it as a capital wannabe. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco-Oakland and scores of other cities have built public transportation systems that benefit their economies and social lives. Los Angeles and Southern California have not been able to do the same."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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