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Daily Transit Links Roundup

Contributed by Fred Camino on March 13th, 2008 at 9:09 am

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  1. That “three hub” post is great. I imagine if all three lines are finished, people will refer to living and working in the “triangle”.

    North Hollywood is also going to become a hub as well.
    If Alternative #9 is chosen in the Westside Transit Corridor Extension Study, that would provide for BOTH a Purple Line expansion along Wilshire and the Pink Line Alignment directly from North Hollywood to Century City/Westwood along Santa Monica Blvd.

    Please contact the MTA within the next few days at BOTH the following e-mail address:

    WestsideExtension@metro.net
    metroplan@metro.net

    and please let them know you support BOTH the Purple and Pink Lines and you want BOTH included in the MTA’s Long Range Transportation Plan.

    Comment by Dan W. on March 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am »Reply« resta suma

  2. Here are his visuals to the “three hub”. The “Pink Line” is one of the three anchors to this. I’m glad he uses that terminology. Let’s get the MTA to use it the way they refer to the “Silver Line”.

    I don’t agree with the Expo Line on the bottom map, and it’s missing the all important Sepulveda Line from LAX to Metrolink, but it’s interesting, so I included it.

    Comment by Dan W. on March 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am »Reply« resta suma

  3. Did he say that the Westside isn’t dense enough for heavy rail?

    Comment by Tony Fernandez on March 13th, 2008 at 5:58 pm »Reply« resta suma

  4. He did, and that part I strongly disagree with. The subway needs to go all the way to the Santa Monica Pier.

    But I the way he is thinking of the triangle, I agree with. Few of us agree on everything, except perhaps that the BRU is full of caca. :)

    Comment by Dan W. on March 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm »Reply« resta suma

  5. If you are going to “subway to the sea” the logical terminus is the SM Courthouse area where the Expo Line can easily hook up. Too bad this comment is hard to read being preemptively branded trolling.

    Comment by Rob Dawg on March 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am »Reply« resta suma

  6. I do agree that the Purple and Expo Lines should terminate together in a grand station a la Coney Island. Their current thinking is sort of as two bookend terminals of the Promenade.

    Comment by Dan W. on March 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am »Reply« resta suma

  7. I can count the number of times on one hand that MTA has been right about construction costs, operating costs — that doesn’t even include technological costs

    - Richard Katz, the lone Board member who voted against fare gates.

    that right there is the most classic sauce out there. stupid ass metro. i can’t get over how blatantly idiotic this whole metro gate mess is and with each article i read, it only gets more absurd.

    Comment by tykejohnson on March 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am »Reply« resta suma

  8. Critics of the ludicrously low price estimates for effectively gating LA transit need to understand that the same transit math is the only reason those projects were approved in the first place.

    There’s a large issue. Better tracking of transportation consumption has always resulted in better transport and efficiencies. Why should transit not take advantage of these technologies?

    Comment by Rob Dawg on March 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm »Reply« resta suma