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Article: Los Angeles _ a subway runs through it (seriously).
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2007
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Byline: Howard Shapiro
LOS ANGELES _ I have been doing something both subterranean and subversive. I've been riding the Los Angeles subway.
I felt like a renegade, riding the subway in L.A. Zipping through the depths of the city is not for L.A.; that's for Chicago or the other coast _ back east, as they say in California. Where is your car? Where is your sense? Car sense, that's the Los Angeles culture.
At one freeway interchange alone _ the world's busiest, where The 101 meets The 405 _ 566,000 vehicles pass through each weekday. The undisputed spine of the region is its 915-mile freeway and highway system, built for a culture on four wheels.
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