WEST LOS ANGELES

The Westside of the city  Los Angeles has a population of approximately 1,000,000 people this includes both the incorporated areas and those that are incorportated cities.

Cheviot Hills, Century City, Bel Air, Beverly Crest, Beverlywood, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Rancho Park, Sawtelle, West Los Angeles, Westwood Venice, Mar Vista, Playa del Rey, South Robertson, Playa Vista, and Westchester, as well as the incorporated cities of Beverly Hills, Culver City, Santa Monica, and the unincorporated county territory of Marina del Rey and Playa Visa.

When people outside of Los Angeles visualize Los Angeles, they picture The Westside. Where as in reality the Westsidea small portion of the city.The misconception is due to Television and films that often show the westside. Why..Because there is such diverse housing. You will find waterfront homes in Santa Monica and Play del Rey: multimillion dollar homes overlooking the Pacific in Pacific Palisades and estate sized private homes Beverly Hills, & Brentwood areas. To mention a few, along with some small 1920s bungalows in the Culver City area.

There are many major production corporations, talent agencies, and entertainment law firms in Century City, a major business hub of the Westside. New developments such as Playa Vista near LAX are important entertainment industry centers along with Santa Monica, Venice and Beverly Hills.
Traveling to downtown Los Angeles is rivaled only by the Westside, for the number of people commuting to it.

Because the area does not have an effective mass transit system and due to the inadequate freeway system, the commute from these areas during high traffic times is horrible. An enormous amount of development took place in anticipation of new freeway construction, which never occurred resulting in significant congestion on the area’s surface streets. Because the proposals to widen the existing freeways or extend the Purple Line to the ocean have been stalled by their great expense, and with no relief being seen in the near future, the old proposal to turn Pico and Olympic into one-way streets has been revived.