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Why Los Angeles sidewalks are so empty

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The sprawling western metropolis features thousands of miles of pristine concrete pathways that practically nobody uses for actual walking. They exist purely as a sunny, paved buffer zone between traffic jams and drive-through lanes. Pedestrians are basically treated as cryptids.

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