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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup for 5/29/08
Contributed by Fred Camino on May 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Image courtesy of igetrad.
- Los Angeles has a small carbon footprint compared to other American cities… with some caveats.
- Another day, another story about Americans trading in their car keys for bus passes because of rising gas prices.
- It’s not over until it’s under… City Beat looks at the Expo Line’s arduous battle.
- Libertarian think tank wants an end to long range transportation planning because it creates congestion.
- Airports across the country are creating rail links to ease mobility woes.
- ABC7 looks at a local phenomenon with national implications, Angelenos giving up their cars for mass transit.
Discussion
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Cato doesn’t want long-range transportation planning?
What a crock!
Cato is ground zero for the belief that public transportation is merely transportation welfare, and the erroneous belief that the car culture is the highest form of transportation — all these little single-occupancy individual vehicles running around not in anyway connected with any other vehicles except by the choking congestion and pollution they collectively cause. Cato advocates the sort of faux-libertarianism that Fred has written about.
The Cato mindset dismisses any responsible urban planning as merely “social engineering” and doesn’t see six decades of car culture as having been willfully and socially engineered and enabled. (“Of course all reasonable people want a car and like the car culture lifestyle,” type of thinking).
The real reason Cato doesn’t like long-term transportation planning is because they intuitively know that future of transportation will be less automobile-only centric, due to ever increasing oil prices and ever worsening congestion.
Are light rail crossings actually that dangerous? Where I’m from we don’t have any commuter trains, but there was a street-level freight train crossing right next to two schools (a high school and a middle school). At least during the, admittedly brief, time I lived near it there weren’t any accidents even though all there was protecting kids from the train was a crossing gate. There were, however, several incidents of cars hitting kids due in part to a lack of side-walks and busy streets.
Question for Damien Goodmon: What is it exactly about the students of Dorsey High that would lead them to defy gates and flashing lights and walk into the path of a moving train? No, you dare not answer, you’re too busy pushing buttons. The real danger is not a rail line but those like yourself who are too clever by half when it comes to playing with stereotypes.
[...] all over the globe instead of getting the job done here at home? IN LOS ANGELES? For starters, MetroriderLA just linked to a story in the USA Today about at least a dozen U.S. airports fast-tracking rail projects to [...]
I don’t recall any kids at all getting hurt with the Blue Line, and that passes by loads of schools. (It’s mostly adults, in cars, trying to beat the train, or out-and-out suicides there).
I rarely hear about any problems with the Gold Line, either.
Damien G. has an agenda…to build every line on that map of his as a subway. Fine, but that shouldn’t stop us from setting up, at least initially, a light rail network.
I see nothing wrong with undergrounding the Expo line as long as Mr. Goodmon and his neighbors are willing to pay the additional cost.