Apologies for looking at everything through startup-colored glasses, but my first thought on reading this was that LA is going to have a hard time becoming a startup hub with attitudes like this. The hackers and designers that startups want to hire seem to be disproportionately likely to want to travel on foot or by bike. So they like to live in cities where you can do that, and dislike car-centric cities.

There is a bigger trend here though. As several recent studies have shown, people in their 20s are turning against cars. So a city that favors cars at the expense of pedestrians and bicycles is also one that favors the old at the expense of the young.