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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on April 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Things got a “little” busy with my billable work last week, thus the lack of updates. Hopefully this week I’ll be able to up the ante to make up for it.
Image courtesy of Coneee.
- Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus celebrates 80 years of service today.
- United Airlines Hemispheres Magazine takes a look at the growing car-free movement.
- Reality Check: Growth in Los Angeles is not going to stop, not matter what.
- Zev on density: “Housing should also be built around subway, bus and light-rail stations.“
- Redondo Beach man gives a car-free commute a try.
- New security checks on the Red Line are part of a larger bum control issue.
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hmmm, yeah; regarding the security sweeps at the end of the red line. If this had been established since the beginning I would have no problem with it but since they just started recently for no apparent reason, I will say this, it is very annoying. The first time that happened, the passengers had just gotten off and I proceeded to enter the car as always when lo and behold I hear an announcement saying this train is out service to please exit due to an MTA and Sheriff security check. I just stood there in shock thinking to myself, after all these years. The nerve!
It sounds as if Zev is just trying to reframe smart growth as his idea. Let’s call is Zev Growth even though its exactly the same as what everyone else has been saying!
Gee. Zev Yaroslavsky’s grandstanding again. That’s a shock.
I’d have been more impressed with his opinion piece if he called for support for Assemblymember Mike Feuer’s bills to fund new transit projects.
Density is not a “choice”. Three million more people are projected to come to Los Angeles County in 30 years. The limits of economic and environmental limits of sprawl have been reached. Therefore that means density. Responsibly, it means density and “re-centralization” along transit corridors.
In the years ahead there will undoubtedly be several politicians who will be panderng to NIMBYs still living in 1965 that the prior days of high quality car culture can be preserved and restored forever.
The so-called “DNA” of Los Angeles is changing. That’s not up for discussion. The only discussion on offer is whether there will be a mass transit system to keep Los Angeles economically and environmentally sustainable or whether Los Angeles will decline along with its car culture.
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Kudos to BBB on its birthday. Now raise the fares to match the MTA and provide more frequent and later service.
Though I remain skeptical of his motives and his strategy, at least Zev is giving lip service to a more nuanced position compared to his more recent anti-density spoutings.
As far as the Inland Empire growth article, there really needs to be a concerted campaign to drive home that though growth may be inevitable, sprawl is not. As much as possible, that population growth needs to be absorbed into existing developed areas as close to regional cores as possible. But first the argument must be articulated and presented, then those in power must be persuaded - all major undertakings.
That should be on billboards all over the area.
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I’m going to shamlessly plug my own blog where I mentioned this.
ridethepinkline.blogspot.com
I want to celebrate the Fairfax Regency cinema where you can see second run art house films for $6. (The people are nice, the bathrooms are clean and the floors aren’t sticky.
The don’t have parking, so they are actively encouraging transit riders to patronize their establishment. More and more businesses will include transit directions, in addition to driving directions, in their marketing and promotional materials — just like every other major metropolis on the planet.
Here’s a picture of their wonderful public transit display in the lobby.
