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Originally Posted by WrightCONCEPT
Besides after Purple Line to Westwood/VA there are plenty of projects that Metro will be working on in the Measure M funding pipeline including; - West Santa Ana Corridor to Downtown LA
- Sepulveda Pass from SFV, Westwood and LAX
- Foothill Gold Line to Claremont
- Eastside Gold Line to Whittier
- Green Line to Torrance
- Union Station Run-Through tracks
- Rail conversion of the Orange Line
- Vermont Corridor Red Line
- Burbank Airport Red Line extension
- Green Line to Norwalk Metrolink
- Extending the West Santa Ana Corridor to Glendale/Burbank
There's still plenty of projects to work on.
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And this is what I mean by mention of what's next for metro. Most of the stuff on this list are just cosmetic extensions by metro to pretend they are doing their job when in fact they are not. "2030, Metro plans on extending the gold line to palmsprings" is not something I want to hear. "2045 Metro plans on extending the WSAB to Camarillo" is not exciting for me. They are taking the easy way out by endlessly extending lines we already have instead of getting their boots dirty and looking at new lines.
I've always been the one on here to be blah with the WSAB. I just feel it will have a similar fate as the green line but I may be wrong.
The Sepulveda line at this point seems to be more of a gimmick than realistic. Will it be a monorail ? Subway? LRT? or Maglev?" who knows, its a surprise haha.
All of the extensions
. The only one that deserves some kind of a mention is the red to Burbank airport but seeing how the Burbank airport barely even sees 5% of the air traffic as LAX, is it worth it ? and if the Crenshaw line doesn't see heavy traffic, this extension will surely be dead before the first shovel hits the ground.
Vermont corridor is in limbo, will it be a LRT ? Subway? or Bus route ? last I heard, bus route and still decades away.
The orange turning into rail is decades away.
And even the WSAB is some years out if we're lucky.
My problem with metro is that there should be a continuous flow of construction projects and not just extensions and "downtime" where we wait 10 years for the next project to break ground. Just imagine if Metro had 10 new lines on the drawing board that were viable and shovel ready. California just had its biggest budget surplus at over 75 Billion. Instead of being handed 5-10 billion for shovel ready rail projects, LA is only getting 1 billion for projects that have been under construction for 5 years already.