They Paved Paradise ...

Forty years agone the Los Angeles City Council adopted some of Joni Mitchell's lyrics every bit a mission statement. They made it their intended role to 'Pave paradise in addition to seat upwardly a parking lot'. That aim has immediately been achieved.

Los Angeles immediately has some 200 foursquare miles of parking spaces. Shane Phillips estimates that in that location is immediately to a greater extent than infinite for each motorcar than for each somebody inwards Los Angeles county. To help illustrate the total of infinite given over to parking cars inwards LA Shane has lumped all these parking infinite together to do i big imaginary parking space.

This parking infinite is xvi miles inwards diameter, You tin sack meet how much room all LA's parking spaces direct keep upwardly on Shane's Google Map, Mapped: All 200 Square Miles of Parking inwards LA County, As One Giant Parking Lot. The map shows the imaginary parking lot placed on acme of LA.


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