An urban transport system must rather be judged on outputs --- on results. The best urban transport system is the one that serves its people best, the one that requires its people to spend the least time traveling around the area. In that regard, no megacity can compete with Los Angeles. Los Angeles is blessed with a well coordinated and effective transportation system, at least if the criteria is performance. Its principal elements are the famous freeways, but just as importantly, the wide arterial streets that provide a network throughout the area. Generally, arterial streets of from four.