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Daily Transit Links Roundup

Contributed by Fred Camino on February 28th, 2008 at 10:49 am

Long Beach Transit

Construction begins today for new $3.9 million transit center in Long Beach
Former Metro Board Member Richard Alarcón doesn’t trust Metro, and isn’t afraid to tell them
BRU tells the mayor to fund bus lanes on Wilshire now that he’s one of them
Turnstiles are an $80 million boondoggle according to City Beat
Sales tax to fund subway to the sea? Assemblyman Mike Feuer thinks so.

boondoggle • bru • bus lanes • long beach • subway to the sea • transit center • turnstiles

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I think more attention needs to be paid to the Mike Feuer article. It’s not the most exciting thing, but those bills he presented would easily be the most concrete advance in transportation funding in this region in the last few years.

I personally plan to write a letter of support to every level of representative, from my Assemblyman to my State Senator to my Congressman to my US Senator (even though the latter two have no real impact). Probably to Zev and the city council and the mayor also.

Obviously we’ll want to read the bills more closely as they become available, but I hope transit-oriented blogs like this one really push people to pay attention and contact their representatives. The politicians need to feel like there’s a constituency that really cares about this. It may not have a huge effect, but I’ve worked in a Congressman’s office before and in an Assemblyman’s office, and in both cases a big portion of my day was taken writing down constituent phone calls and letters and responding to them so that the office had a measure of what people were interested in.

Comment by Simon on February 28th, 2008 at 10:55 pm »Reply«
Aww. The BRU wants attention.

I support bus only lanes (and one-way streets where possible) in principle, and would support bus-only lanes, at least during rush hour on Wilshire, Santa Monica, Vermont, Western and Ventura Blvds. Bus-only lanes will never be an adequate substitute for rail, of course. However, London has shown the are an important part of traveling in the urban environment.

It’s just too bad the BRU has no credibility or respectability left to make the argument in favor of them.

Comment by Dan W. on March 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am »Reply«

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