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However, the building of freeways and garages cannot continue forever.

The new interchange among the four Los Angeles freeways, including the grade-constructed accesses, occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land, one-eighth of a square mile, an area about the size of Rockefeller Center in New York.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

As it affects the city's fiscal situation, such an interchange is ruinous ; ;

it removes forever from the tax rolls property which should be taxed to pay for the city services.

Subways improved land values without taking away land ; ;

freeways boost valuation less ( because the garages they require are not prime buildings by a long shot ), and reduce the acreage that can be taxed.

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.