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In the 2010s, California tried to bring relief to the notoriously congested Interstate 405 in Los Angeles by adding new lanes. That only made traffic worse, thanks to induced demand -- the idea that widening roadway capacity only encourages more people to drive.
Now, more than a decade later, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is pursuing a radical fix: a 13-mile automated subway line paralleling the 405 across the Sepulveda Pass, with a projected ridership of more than 100,000 passengers per day. It's set to be the most ambitious transit expansion currently planned for the region and could cost $24 billion -- far more than what LA Metro has available for the project. To bring the subway to life, however, the agency faces more than just funding challenges, contributor Benjamin Schneider reports. Today on CityLab: A Tunnel to Transform Los Angeles
-- Linda Poon
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