Have YOU been to manhattan lately? How much have you driven there?
> The number of of avenues and major east-west thoroughfares is small compared to the number of one lane one way street.
Uh, you're begging the question. Each of those one lane one way streets adds one lane of capacity, but you seem to assume they each add zero lanes of capacity. I don't get that. Zero != One.
Also, actually, most of those cross streets are two lane roads. They're unpainted in many cases except in midtown, which is probably why you think they're all one lane.
If you recount throughout available with both of those two above facts in mind you'll get an order of magnitude more capacity.
Also most avenues have 3 to 5 lanes. Time based regulations increase these in some areas, there are "no standing between 7a-7p" lanes all over town.
It may well be that you even live in manhattan but it sounds like you have not driven there much or you would have over time observed all these features. They make a big difference.
> The fact that Los Angeles is such a sprawl means that amount track miles it would now take to provide similar transit coverage isn't feasible.
Huh? You were talking about road layout not rail though. You still haven't said why, regarding well signalled road grids, LA and manhattan are incomparable.
> The number of of avenues and major east-west thoroughfares is small compared to the number of one lane one way street.
Uh, you're begging the question. Each of those one lane one way streets adds one lane of capacity, but you seem to assume they each add zero lanes of capacity. I don't get that. Zero != One.
Also, actually, most of those cross streets are two lane roads. They're unpainted in many cases except in midtown, which is probably why you think they're all one lane.
If you recount throughout available with both of those two above facts in mind you'll get an order of magnitude more capacity.
Also most avenues have 3 to 5 lanes. Time based regulations increase these in some areas, there are "no standing between 7a-7p" lanes all over town.
It may well be that you even live in manhattan but it sounds like you have not driven there much or you would have over time observed all these features. They make a big difference.
> The fact that Los Angeles is such a sprawl means that amount track miles it would now take to provide similar transit coverage isn't feasible.
Huh? You were talking about road layout not rail though. You still haven't said why, regarding well signalled road grids, LA and manhattan are incomparable.