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There are 4 Responses to “Expo Line phase 2 workshops”:

1. Does anyone know when the final decision about the Cheviot Hills ROW or the Venice-Sepulveda alternative will be made? Or does anyone have any inside scoop about where the MTA might be leaning with this?

   Comment by Dan W. on March 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm »Reply«
   
   

2. Does anyone know when the final decision about the Cheviot Hills ROW or the Venice-Sepulveda alternative will be made?

   Likely this fall, when the Expo Board selects the “Locally Preferred Alternative” (LPA) following release and public comment on the phase 2 Draft EIS/EIR. They’re behind their website’s schedule.

   The meetings this week and next will give important information on proposed grade separations and station locations, part of evaluating the alternatives’ costs, ridership, and environmental impacts.

   Comment by Friends 4 Expo on March 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pm »Reply«
   
   

3. I’m really annoyed that the LA Times and other LA media have completely ignored the LRTP. All they’ve done so far is write a few blog posts on the LA Times blogs.

   God forbid they spend a few minutes covering a 150 billion dollar transportation plan in the most traffic-locked city in America.

   Comment by Simon on March 25th, 2008 at 4:41 pm »Reply«
   
   

4. I’m really annoyed that the LA Times and other LA media have completely ignored the LRTP. All they’ve done so far is write a few blog posts on the LA Times blogs.

   God forbid they spend a few minutes covering a 150 billion dollar transportation plan in the most traffic-locked city in America.

   Sadly, I’m not surprised. I’m annoyed too, but not surprised. Look how rarely the comment section of the “Bottleneck Blog” is updated. There is no car-based, automobile-based solution to preserving or even restoring the former glory of the car culture.

   The L.A. Times gets revenue from car sellers. Their advertisers don’t want to hear or have it reported that Los Angeles car culture is unravelling.

   The editors themselves probably drive to work and are basically uninformed or in denial about the unravelling of Los Angeles car culture.

   Many of the readers of the Times don’t want to hear that their car culture way of life will only decline in the years ahead no matter what Caltrans or the MTA does.

   The L.A. Times Bottleneck Blog is still remaining “neutral” on the “Subway to the Sea”, when most reasonable people realize it is our biggest public transit priority along with the Downtown Regional Connector.

   There are a lot of people who want some magical car-based, road-based solution to our “bottlenecks” and there is none. There is no automobile-based solution to keeping Los Angeles economically and environmentally sustainable — even if everyone owned a hybrid.

   The underreporting of MTA’s Long Term Transportation Plan is similar to the underreporting of NBC/Universal’s decision to move TO the subway is part of this too. A non-altruistic corporation has decided that in the long-term it will not be able to depend on its clients and employees being able to drive an automobile to their old location. “The subway doesn’t go anywhere” is being replaced with “anywhere is going to the subway”. Therefore, even people who are unwilling to use transit for whatever reason will still have their lifestyles and business practices changed because they, like NBC/Universal, will have to consider transit accessibility into their professional appointments and social engagements whether they use transit or not.

   However, the establishment of Los Angeles that still lives in Sam Yorty’s suburban L.A. doesn’t want to hear it or know it. Hence, this and other signs of the decline of the L.A. car culture as we have known it are underreported.

   Social historians 100 years from now doing research on the rise of Los Angeles Car Culture in the 50’s and the decline of Los Angeles Car Culture five decades later will look for source material and comment how the Los Angeles Times completely missed the story.

   Comment by Dan W. on March 25th, 2008 at 11:59 pm »Reply«
   
   

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