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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on April 1st, 2008 at 11:03 am
- Developing nations like China and India spending 9% of GDP on mass transit infrastructure, the US - less than 2%.
- The Economist takes a look at LA’s future, and how transit is viewed as that way to tame the beast.
- Getting to LAX car-free, a primer.
- The solution to funding transit? Raise taxes! To 90% if need be! Ummm… maybe I’ll stick to walking.
- Mike Feur introduces new legislation he hopes will making voting for transit funding easier.
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A lot of India and China’s infrastructure spending is on capital projects, of the sort that the US has had for years. That is to say, it’s catch-up spending.
In any case, transit is much more appropriate for both countries. It would help both of them immensely if they stopped subsidizing fuel, though, and cut business (but not personal) taxes correspondingly.
That Economist article is pretty good for what is essentially a conservative magazine.
As the Westside is increasingly behind the subway-to-the-sea project, North Hollywood and the southeast San Fernando Valley is becoming the biggest flashpoint where automobile-entitlement meets transit-oriented development and transit expansion. Lots of people there who still delude themselves that they live in a suburb. They don’t. Woodland Hills is a suburb. Rancho Cucamonga is a suburb. Studio City is not a suburb. Build that Ventura Blvd. subway line sooner rather than later.
The Economist is one of the most reasonable publications around. Take a look at the comments to the article, pretty much every one acknowledges the fact that automobile culture in America has been heavily subsidized and that, despite what some “big L” Libertarians would have you believe, it is the antithesis of classical liberalism, the political ideology of The Economist.
Mike Feuer is awesome. He spoke about the legislation he’s pushing through a few months back at the conference arranged by Denny Zane. Transit activists really need to get his back on what he’s doing. This could really gel into a movement to challenge (and hopefully reverse) the entire post-war homeowner politics that gave us Prop 13 and shifted the costs of suburban expansion onto the center cities. The most vocal and organized opposition is coming from the usual suspects (Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn, Mike Antonovich).
Mike Feuer IS awesome. I agree.
Off topic, but for similar reasons, I prefer reading the Financial Times to the Wall Street Journal.
FWIW, The Economist’s reporting is often lazy and its fact-checking can be really poor. There’s a reason its letters section is full of complaints about those every week.
Yes, my dad is known to write in every month. A few months ago he proudly displayed the issue in which one of his letters finally got published.
I’m curious about getting to LAX car free. What are the odds of an Air Train people mover being made like the people movers at JFK and Newark. I take it would have to be from a stop not created? Is there any way it could be constructed from Century/Aviation now? The JFK Air Train goes all the way to Jamaica. If not I assume it will be connected to a stop via the Crenshaw Line with a one-seat ride available to downtown.