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Leimert Park, Slauson and Inglewood DT are not destinations requiring rail transit. They are LOCAL shopping areas, more than adequately served by existing bus lines. (btw, same issue for DT Monrovia, San Dimas, etc., which will be connected by the Foothill Line; buses are MORE than adequate; but I will agree that Pasadena IS a legitmate rail destination). It will be pushing 2 hours from South Bay to the Westside via Crenshaw and Purple (20 years to SaMo?) or Expo. I never thought I would say this, but I would recommend the 405 at rush-hour over using this method of transportation from, say, Redondo to Venice or the Marina. Connection to LAX? For whom? From DT you would take the FlyAway bus; from the Westside you wouldn't chose Expo to the airport since you are already so close, and the tony crowd further north are not going to do Purple to Expo to people mover with luggage and kids. (btw, true story: a MTA employee warned two Swiss tourists not to take metro to LAX because the connection to the Green Line was in the most dangerous gang territory in LA and there were shooting there the previous night; not a great marketing guy, but he did give them the right advice, to take the FlyAway bus). |
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- Try getting to LAX during rush hour from Santa Monica when both Lincoln blvd and 405 are jammed. Then you'll see why we're waiting anxiously for the Crenshaw Line. It'll be even more convenient for those living closer to Expo/Crenshaw station. - Not all tourists want to go to downtown LA. The Crenshaw Line provides mobility to get people between South LA/Culver City/Mid-Wilshire/West Hollywood/Hollywood without having to go to downtown LA and then back west. - And also the Crenshaw Line does open up job opportunities for those living in West LA and commuting to the South Bay. Remember, the Crenshaw Line will eventually go up San Vincente to West Hollywood and Hollywood. And this is going to be an underground train. All preliminary studies by Metro have affirmed this. This is not going to be a slow "Flower street" Expo Line train. This is going to be one of the fastest Metro trains that will be operated, it's the Westside's North-South rail line. |
http://thesource.metro.net/2012/08/0...way-extension/
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No issues on the piece from Expo to Purple to Red in Hollywood. Build that now (not in 15-20 years) and scrap this. |
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Los Angeles might ease up on parking requirements for businesses
August 14, 2012 By David Zahniser and Kate Linthicum Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,2276469.story Quote:
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^This is a great step forward.
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Interesting. A big win for developers, which may be good or bad, depending on the 'hood.
The problem is when a new business opens and assumes it can skimp on parking because its customers can just park on the local city streets. On the westside this is addressed by Byzantine parking restrictions which are more or less a tax, since after a while you just take your chances. My argument has been for local control. If the locals think that a new business who is going to take all the local street parking is worth it, then let them come in without providing for parking. If not, let the business find somewhere else where the people don't care about the parking situation. |
Los Angeles Asks Its Voters to Extend Transit Tax Far Into the Future
September 3rd, 2012 By Yonah Freemark Read More: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2...to-the-future/ Quote:
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Any polls on this? 2/3 is tough.
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Metro is saying that internal polls show it at 80% voting "Yes". I think it has a chance to succeed. I wish it wasn't a 30 year extension but an indefinite tax so that we could envision more funding in the future for more rail lines. |
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The ballot language for Measure J will probably help. It's convoluted, but emphasizes job growth and traffic relief repeatedly. Nothing is nearer or dearer to LA residents than those two issues. |
Smart to be including the ballot measure in the Big Election; Angelenos will turn out in massive numbers to vote for Obama, and will likely vote to support transit.
If it were included in a special election, it wouldn't motivate a lot of supporters to turn out, but the anti-tax types would be sure to show up and vote against it. |
L.A.’s Transit Revolution (Slate)
I absolutely agree with this. When we visited LA a few weeks ago, I was very impressed with LA's transit system. The passenger rail (including commuter rail and light rail) network is extensive, the stations were clean, the headways were frequent and convenient. Additionally, unlike DC, all of the escalators in the metro stations seemed to work (admittedly the system is much newer and LA doesn't have DC's weather).
L.A.’s Transit Revolution How a ballot initiative, a visionary mayor, and a quest for growth are turning Los Angeles into America’s next great mass-transit city. By Matthew Yglesias Sept. 17, 2012 Slate http://www.slate.com/content/dam/sla...gle3-large.jpg A Los Angeles Rapid bus line (Image via Slate). "On a recent visit to Southern California, I began my day in Claremont, where I’d spoken the previous evening at a Pomona College event. I walked from a hotel near campus to the Claremont Metrolink station, where I grabbed a commuter rail train to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. From there I transferred to the L.A. Metro’s Red Line and rode up to the Vermont/Santa Monica station and checked into a new hotel. I had lunch in that neighborhood, and later walked east to meet a friend for dinner and drinks in Silver Lake. My father, a lifelong New Yorker and confirmed L.A. hater whose screenwriting work has frequently taken him to the City of Angels, found the idea of a carless California day pretty amusing. But the city that’s defined in the public imagination as the great auto-centric counterpoint to the traditional cities of the Northeast has quietly emerged as a serious mass transit contender. It’s no New York and never will be—Los Angeles was constructed in the era of mass automobile ownership, and its landscape will always reflect that—but it’s turning into something more interesting, a 21st-century city that moves the idea of alternative transportation beyond nostalgia or Europhilia..." http://www.slate.com/articles/busine...sit_city_.html |
Downtown LA protest planned against Metro; advocates say agency displaces working class residents, small businesses
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Visions of Sixth Street
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HNTB. Game over.
Iconic. A nice metaphor for entering into the land of creativity and invention. Something that people would get excited about when they see it and would want to go see when in LA. AND, it has potential for generating interest and demand to live and work in the 'hood around it, stimulate interest in improving the river and leave the area between the river and Alameda in the middle of two developing areas. |
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