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1. Sorry for the duplicate. I don’t see an edit or delete function.

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   I haven’t seen this show up on the blogs, but here is coverage of the October 29 MTA forum in West Hollywood for the Westside Extension Transit Corridor Study.

   http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=1845

   Council member John Heilman spoke after a presentation by Metro officials at the Plummer Park Community Center, and said in no uncertain words that the Metro board seems to have prejudged the direction of the line.

   He mentioned that a substantial station property operated by the Metro already existed in the city – the original Sherman Rail yard on which now stands a bus depot – that ought to figure prominently in the Metro’s expansion plans.

   He also took umbrage to the apparent lack of concern the Metro has for Wehoans’ thoughts on the transportation subject. “It took our city’s demand that we be allowed to have input – Metro put this meeting together only at our insistence – and they seem to have already decided on the Wilshire route,” he said. “That doesn’t give us a fair shot at giving input.”

   Another council member, Abbe Land, asked for old thought patterns to be swept aside in searching for the best answer. “We have to drop pre-conceived notions formed 15 years ago and think about this as being our future. We are planning for the next several decades.”

   It sounds like there was thankfully one one speaker who worried about the subway bringing the “wrong people” to the community. Fortunately, that idea is dying off (literally).

   Comment by Dan W. on November 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 am »Reply«
   
   

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