In the incorporated cities and the incorporated areas on the Westside of The City of Los Angeles, there is approximately 1,000,000 people.

Bel Air, Beverly Crest, Beverlywood, Century City, Brentwood, Cheviot Hills, 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 Culver City, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica, and the unincorporated county territory of Marina del Rey and Playa Visa.

When the 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. With palatial estate sized homes in Beverly Hills and Brentwood, there are ocean front homes in Santa Monica and Playa del Rey, multimillion dollar ocean fronted homes in Pacific Palisades on the bluffs. In the Culver City area, along with some small 1920s bungalows, just to mention a few.

There are many major production corporations, talent agencies, and entertainment law firms in Century City, a major business hub of the Westside. Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Venice, and new developments such as Playa Vista near LAX are also important entertainment industry centers.
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. A huge amount of development took place in anticipation of new freeway construction, which never occurred resulting in significant congestion on the area’s surface streets. Since no relief is in site because the proposals to widen the existing freeways or extend the Purple Line to the ocean have been stalled by their great expense; more recently, an old proposal to turn Pico and Olympic into one-way streets has been revived.

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