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 hold upwardly to 'Pave paradise in addition to position upwardly a parking lot'. That aim has at in 1 trial been achieved.
Los Angeles at in 1 trial has unopen to 200 foursquare miles of parking spaces. Shane Phillips estimates that at that topographic point is at in 1 trial to a greater extent than infinite for each motorcar than for each individual inward Los Angeles county. To assistance illustrate the total of infinite given over to parking cars inward LA Shane has lumped all these parking infinite together to do 1 big imaginary parking space.
This parking infinite is sixteen miles inward diameter, You tin encounter how much room all LA's parking spaces accept upwardly on Shane's Google Map, Mapped: All 200 Square Miles of Parking inward LA County, As One Giant Parking Lot. The map shows the imaginary parking lot placed on tiptop of LA.
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