http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=468 669&ct=2392493 <The crown jewels of Los Angeles are their infrastructure: their port system, their airport system, their water and power systems. Our crown jewels are our beaches and our parks. **We chose a different developmental path early on. Los Angelization.** The problem is, it's already here. Traffic congestion now in San Diego is getting to be almost as bad as Los Angeles. The growth is here, the suburban sprawl.> <You hate to say the future, but it is Los Angeles. . I don't see in San Diego government the level of professionalism I see in L.A. government. It's almost like it's a suburban government down here. There is an amateurish quality. I see the same thing with water, power, airports. What you have in L.A. going back 100 years is, I call it, the "culture of Mulhollandism." The bureaucracies were capable of thinking of big, vast, heroic public works projects. We never had to do that here, in part because **we were a Navy town. So we sort of had stunted bureaucracies.** Now we're being called upon to develop our own infrastructure, and we don't have a great track record for doing that. I know of no other major city as dependent on the infrastructure of another city as San Diego is in Los Angeles. Can you imagine Philadelphia hooked up to New York's airport system, port system and water system?> < San Diego really only comes of age with World War II -- because of the military. People came to San Diego and said: Hey! We'd like to stay here. But San Diego in many ways -- and I don't want to say this pejoratively -- is an adolescent city. It's still like in its late teens or early 20s. Los Angeles is a young city, too, by eastern standards. But remember, L.A.'s great leap forward is before World War II.> ----------------------- Goa's problem is not stunted bureaucracies but, more fundamentally, stunted politicians who seem to be pretending to play the democracy game in the shadow of the insidious military presence especially at Dabolim airport.
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