Argumentative Essay: Cars In The City Of Angels

Cars in the City of Angels

Los Angeles, California is known worldwide to be a city designed specifically for the use of automobiles. Since Los Angeles County is so expansive, is considered to be one of the largest cities in the U.S and the World. The Government decided to accommodate its landscape very efficiently through the use of freeways by connecting each other from far distances into one by the use of intersections. On the other hand, since the landscape of Los Angeles was made specifically for cars, it has a horrible public transportation that people see car as a necessity rather than luxury. The government has done a magnificent job keeping

its landscape in apt conditions for drivers to use. Some of the signs of automobile’s dominance in Los Angeles are its landscapes of the freeways, the number of gas stations, parking structures, drive thru and more importantly the shortage of parking space. To me a sign that outstands the most that shows there are many cars in Los Angeles, is the shortage for parking space, the increment of parking meters all over the city obligating people to pay and lastly the new parking constructions in Downtown Los Angeles where the demand for parking is high and the prices are outrageously expensive making parking a lucrative business.
People will often notice that Los Angeles is an auto city by how difficult it is to find parking.

One does not have to go far. I am pretty sure that students here at California State University Dominguez Hills experience this every day. One might think that by paying a whole semester parking pass, guarantees a quick parking space. The reality is that is not true it might take up to thirty minutes or more to find a parking space. That is why is good to plan ahead before time. The need for parking is not just here, is all over Los Angeles. I remember when I used to live in the apartment buildings in West Los Angeles, sometimes we were not able to park on the same street we lived on. So we would find parking three to four streets away sometimes even more and during the weekends it was the worst to find a parking

space.
L.A. people understand how difficult can sometimes be to find parking space. Since the demand for parking is so high. The cities that suffer from parking space have opted to put parking meters for two hours max. This creates a chance for more cars to park and more profit for the city. For example, in the city of Santa Monica, California is known for their ticketing cars to be on the search for expired parking meters. Worse yet, if one gets a ticket and one does not pay the fine, it becomes double the amount. Making a very lucrative business for the city to get people’s money. This clearly shows the demand for parking is high.
Lately, downtown Los Angeles has changed its landscape by the construction of new buildings and parking structures.

These parking structures are five story high designed specifically to provide parking space. This eventually will cause more traffic and more people living in this area. It seems they want to make it appear just like New York City. These constructions are mainly taking place around Staples Center. The new parking constructions do not guarantee the prices will be cheap, where the demand for parking is high. As of this day, whenever there are concerts or sporting events is a luxury to park in those parking’s because the prices are outrageously expensive. The most I have seen it that expensive has been fifty dollars just to park next to Staples

Center.
To conclude automobiles have shape the way we live because now we can commute to far distances or remote places. Since the city lacks of an efficient public transportation it has made it easier for us to find jobs outside from where they live as before where one had to live close from work. Automobiles have also help us get a better view of the landscape of Los Angeles that it even might trigger us to choose where we want to live. Cars have made people become more individualistic. Some people have become too attached to their cars that have become even lazier. This has caused people to have health problems due to the lack of exercise such as walking. Now many people in the United States are dying due to heart attack problems. What’s most importantly is that now with the use of the car and the construction of roads and highways one can reach to the farthest remote places possible.