Something is very wrong with the culture we have in place if it takes 15 years to fund, design, and construct a "BRT" line. And this is with a 2% sales tax (across a county of 10 million people) dedicated toward transportation improvements with no expiration date. It's actually a blessing in disguise that we aren't able to put another countywide sales tax on the ballot because it'd be a continuation of the same bullshit approach of pork barrel, highways, and the worst of them all... "local return" funds. We can thank Move LA for that, and the fact that they're in bed with BYD... fuck them.
And once Metro finally manages to get all this built (mostly LRT and BRT projects which won't spur fundamental change), they'll just continue with their self-negating practices like reducing headways to 20 minutes after 8 p.m. or debacles like the Centinela grade-separation project.
But hey, phases 1 and 2 of the Purple Line Extension are only 2-3 years away.
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