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Originally Posted by plutonicpanda
What a fucking disaster it will be if Metro chooses the monorail. They even seem to be buttering it up by saying the company who is proposing it might extend it to the airport in one project as if that trade off is worth it. It isn't.
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I don't think the Sepulveda Pass transit line will be built as a monorail, mainly since the transit line depends on alot of federal funding. BYD, the company proposing the monorail, is a Chinese company, and there's probably an existing rule that prevents federally-funded infrastructure projects from using Chinese contractors. If such rule doesn't exist, though, we could just lobby senators and local representatives to impose a federal ban on using Chinese contractors like BYD for federally-funded transit projects. Bechtel should doa negative PR campaign against BYD exploring this connection to further drive opposition to the monorail proposal.