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Word: offstreet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move around in this eye-popping urbanized sprawl, Angelenos depend almost completely on the auto. Fifty-five percent of downtown Los Angeles is given over to cars-in space occupied by freeways, offstreet parking and streets-and nearly 500 miles of freeways snake their way through the city's environs. Los Angeles County now has 3,900,000 autos for a population of 7,000,000, and the number is growing faster than the human population. There is little public transport; less than 8% of Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

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