Design and Architecture
Charging LA drivers; Monocle eyes LA
The solution to Los Angeles traffic may be an unpopular one: charging people for using the roads in core districts at peak times. If Metro approves congestion pricing, it’d make Los Angeles the first city in the US to put a price tag on road use.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenThe solution to Los Angeles traffic may be an unpopular one: charging people for using the roads in core districts at peak times. If Metro approves congestion pricing, it’d make Los Angeles the first city in the US to put a price tag on road use.
Plus, Monocle is closing its New York bureau and opening one at Culver City’s hip shopping center Platform. Monocle founder Tyler Brûlé explains why LA matters and why brick-and-mortar retail is not dead (and neither is print).
In this episode
2 storiesWill car-loving Angelenos say yes to congestion pricing?
London, Stockholm and Singapore have it. Could LA County?
Read the story14 minTyler Brûlé loves Los Angeles
In the mid-’90s, a young, injured war correspondent named Tyler Brûlé dreamed up a magazine about design, architecture, fashion and urbanism.
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