FROM FREEWAY TO FREERAY The car-clogged road grid, using fifty percent of city land, gradually becomes orchard looped with bikeways and solar rail. The process takes many decades. !Shown here is the Pomona Freeway crossing one mile of Boyle Heights. LOS ANGELES: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE 1982
PRESENT: 3,000-pound cars propel !STAGE 1: Some alleys are depaved for 150-pound people along concrete and shared vegetable cropping. !Smaller cars asphalt streets. are required. !More bikes are used for travel within one mile.
STAGE 2: Most alleys are removed. !Cars are parked at neighborhood's edge. !Bus systems are expanded.
STAGE 3: All alleys are removed. !Solar bikes are common.
STAGE 5: Expanded rail network is powered by solar focal collectors. One lane of freeway for solar rail. !Bikeways extend. !Auto traffic halved.
STAGE 6: Solar rail takes half the freeway. !Bikeways are nearly complete. The most travelled walks are relaid as brilliant mosaics.
STAGE 4: Progressive Street Reclamation continues as streets are replaced by fruit and nut trees. Rail lines start interneighborhood transfers
STAGE 7: Most physical and emotional needs are met within walking distances. Cars are gone.