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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on April 21st, 2008 at 9:49 am
Image courtesy of Payton Chung.
- Getting around Wilshire on Earth Day, car-free of course!
- L.A. Times: Let’s fix our current transit system before trying to build a new one.
- Reasons to vote for California High Speed Rail.
- John Kerczek provides density data for a future Westside transit system.
- Freakonomics and the external costs of personal automobiles.
- Congestion pricing regressive? HA! Take a look at how car-culture as a whole is regressive.
- Environmental costs of cars that you don’t think about: the afterlife of tires.
Discussion
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One may not always agree with John von Kerczek’s conclusions, but I really appreciate the thoughtfulness he puts into his posts.
I wonder about building BOTH the Cheviot Hills and Sepulveda routes. The Venice portion could connect with Alternative #16 in the Westside Transit Corridor Extension Project and Santa Monica Blvd. (Pink Line). The Sepulveda portion could connect with the Crenshaw/Green Lines on the way up from LAX to over the hill, with the Cheviot Hills ROW good for direct east-west commuting. Anyway, I’m just wondering. I think the Cheviot Hills ROW is the higher priority.
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Hymon’s article is good to mention the need for the Sepulveda LRT. The Los Angeles Times does a pretty poor job of transit reporting in general. Thank goodness for blogs like this.
A line over/through Sepulveda Pass line seems like such a no brainer to everyone I talk to who doesn’t yet use transit, but the MTA doesn’t even have decent bus service over the pass, pooping out at Wilshire/Western. I sometimes wonder if they willfully ignore the people travelling to/from the Valley and the Westside. As I live near Wilshire, Wilshire/Westwood works find for me, but there would be so much easier use of the Rapid 761 if the local service in Westwood/Brentwood was met some other way and the 761 went down to stops at Santa Monica, Olympic and then terminating at Pico (and eventually the Expo Line). Forcing multiple transfers really discourages ridership.
These “turf” disputes between the MTA and the munis has to end. I would hope that Pam O’Connor, as a member of the Santa Monica City Council and head of the MTA would be in a unique position to do something about this. My letter to her went unanswered. The only thing that should matter is the needs of the ridership. If multiple agencies want to operate in the same area, I say the more the merrier. No more forced and unnecessary transfers between systems at Wilshire/Westwood and Pico/Rimpau. A little overlap is not a bad thing or a source of unnecessary duplication.
The only thing acceptable for the Sepulveda Pass is HRT, there is no question there. Nothing else will be as effective or efficient.
Freakonomics, you’ve gotta love it.