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Originally Posted by LineDrive
Credit to LA for the tax measures that have been passed. However so many of these projects have been bungled in major ways
- Not making ESFV and Sepulveda one line
- Not extending Purple to Santa Monica
- Having Flower St and Washington St not grade separated
- Not building Crenshaw TOTALLY grade separated and having to close down the line before it even opens to build bridges.
And spreading out the money by part of the region was a terrible mistake. A few core lines need to be done and done right and if that happens ridership will spike, density around these lines will rise and the commuting habits of Angelinos will change in a transformative ways |
The subregional allocations were the key reason it got leaders in each major area to support the last sales tax measure and it passed with 71.6% of voters. Historically when they did the original core Red Line Subway it had so many fiscal and construction mishaps that it killed the approach of building in the core first because other subregions felt like the central LA core is getting all the funds and they are not getting any projects in their area to show for it.
Agree on a portion of this with Crenshaw/LAX corridor the Metro Board should have told the SoFi stadium folks to pay for the grade separation for putting a stadium in without an EIR this is where the problem lies. This project was well underway and under construction when this stadium nonsense happened when it didn't need the separation. The LAX section is another problem. I feel at this point its better to just hold off on operating the line until the entire project is done which will be another year or two.
Flower and Washington separation will happen in some form but the approaches they initially sketched out in 2017 didn't look at the corridor more comprehensively like it should.