There are three places where NIMBYs must be stood up to in the decades ahead: Cheviot Hills, Hancock Park and North Hollywood.

North Hollywood already has its project. Cheviot Hills is mostly FUD-based NIMBYism. Hancock Park, though, has been the source of vicious and nakedly racist ploys.

This all boils down to a NIMBY argument. Anti-rail people have been there for years and it’s no wonder that the community is speaking out. It’s not that they think their kids are stupid or that accidents don’t happen, it’s that they have been fooled to believe that rail will be bad for the community.

Even more than that. NIMBYs who don’t want the line period are using the phony issue of safety to get the whole project sabotaged or bankrupted by unnecessary gold-plated improvements. There are three places where NIMBYs must be stood up to in the decades ahead: Cheviot Hills, Hancock Park and North Hollywood.

Then he says a train could derail during a car accident and kill students. Well couldn’t a car accident alone do that? Where it is just a train alone, there will be no train accidents. According to that argument, shouldn’t it be the cars that are grade separated and not the rail line?

Then when all the safety histeria fails, he continues to environmental racism. Looking at the design of the line in West LA and Santa Monica, his argument there may be bunk.

Then he comes to efficiency, which in reality is a much better argument. However, west LA needs this now and the line is running on its own ROW, so even that’s not too bad.

What’s the conclusion? This all boils down to a NIMBY argument. Anti-rail people have been there for years and it’s no wonder that the community is speaking out. It’s not that they think their kids are stupid or that accidents don’t happen, it’s that they have been fooled to believe that rail will be bad for the community.

Unless our politicians force a redesign of the primarily street-level running in South LA, people in our community will die – children will die.

Almost none of the fatalities from the Blue Line are children; it’s mostly adults stupidly trying to beat the train, suicides, and drunken homeless.

This is reminding me of that Chris Rock skit, “How Not to Get Your Ass Beat by the Cops.” Rule 1: OBEY the LAW.

We need to stop these deadly trains! I don’t think there’s any death in Los Angeles that hasn’t been caused by the Blue Line.

Had she completed her illegal left turn, this wrong-way driver could have killed innocent people driving east on 3rd Street.

But everything is the train’s fault dontchaknow?

and there won’t be if people follow the rules. That is all.

Were there even a quarter as many trains in L.A. as, say, New York, L.A. would be the new Baghdad. (There are more train lines in the four largest boros than there are stops on the two subways in L.A. combined.)