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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Even with the current projects underway, LA seems to suffer from the same "resting-on-our-laurels-lack-of-urgency" as the rest of the country in terms of public transit/rail infrastructure. Any agency that puts out planning projections for 2060 needs to be raked over the coals. Realistically what is needed is no planning goals projected to be implemented no longer than 15 years. Anything past that is just pathetic. I don't even remember much about my life before I joined this forum 15 years ago LOL.
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Here's the difference, those projections are based on actual cashflow needs from the four voter approved dedicated sales taxes for transportation (1980, 1990, 2008 and 2016) where as other regions have lesser levels of certainty beyond these dates because of the lack of funding sources.