Comments on: Census profiles for Purple Line MOS-5 stations

By: Dan Wentzel

Dan Wentzel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:42:17 +0000

What about putting a streetcar back on Venice Blvd.?

By: Jody F Litvak

Jody F Litvak — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:32:31 +0000

Wow! I don’t check in for a few days and look at all the comments. Glad you’re all so interested in the subway stations. We’d love to see you at the upcoming meetings so we can get your views on the record. Can’t make it? You can still put your views on the record. Go to our website, http://www.metro.net/westside, click on “Contact Us” and have at it. You can also join our “Metro Westside Subway Extension” group on Facebook and post your comments there.

Hope to see you soon.

Jody Litvak
Metro Westside Subway Extension Team

By: Transit Planner

Transit Planner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:51:41 +0000

P.S. I still think the original “Dog Leg” route of the Red Line via Wilshire and Fairfax would have performed better than Vermont. There would be no underperforming Purple Line “stub” and we would have been able to extend it west a lot sooner. Thanks for killing it Westside. Now you want two lines ?

Downtown, the East Side and Valley are booming, partly due to better transportation. I recently read how law firms are moving from the Westside to Downtown, because it’s eaiser to attract employees from throughout the region.

One of the problems with the Green Line was that the areospace firms it was supposed to serve were decimated by the Clinton defense cuts by the the time the line could be opened. What’s going to happen to the Westside now that the business focus is shifting east toward Downtown and the entertainment industry is shrinking ?

By: Transit Planner

Transit Planner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:37:08 +0000

For the record, I am not posting under different names. Just this one. I am aware that Expo to Venice was ranked lower than the currenlty preferred alternative. My question is whether the projections were made in light of the Purple Line subway extension ? I have a feeling there could be some double counting and duplication.

I have no problem at all with Expo going to Culver City in Phase I. I’m just thinking that Phase II may need another look in light of the potential subway extension. I am wondering what would happen to cost-effectiveness and ridership when the Downtown to Santa Monica trips are shifted from Expo to the Purple Line ? It might make sense then to have Expo head toward Venice, Marina Del Rey and the airport.

I’m used to thinking outside the box and frequently notice things that are overlooked. I’ve been in this field for years and still remembered the puzzled looks I got when I predicted that there would be a “Caltrain” system operating to the Valley long before the subway would ever get there. I was only wrong about the name of the system

By: bzcat

bzcat — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:55:29 +0000

Ok Transit Planner and your multiple personality disorder. We get it… Now give it a rest.

By: DMS

DMS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:41:24 +0000

I agree that SM shouldn’t get two lines. It simply isn’t fair for the Los Angeles region as a whole.

Remember, Expo was planned when it was illegal to build subways in Los Angeles.

Now the law has been reversed, but transit planning has not been updated to reflect this.

It would make MUCH more sense to push the expo line south toward venice/MDR.

Then someday, the green line should run north/south along the 405 (stopping at LAX), connect Expo and Purple and then head to the valley.

By: Dan W.

Dan W. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:06:07 +0000

Expo is a done deal.

The way to include Venice and MDR seems to be the proposed Lincoln LRT and Sepulveda LRT.

In the meantime, a Venice Rapid Bus would be helpful.

By: Raffi

Raffi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:54:33 +0000

It’s true, Venice and for that matter MDR need to be included. It can be done many ways, with the current plan of the two lines meeting up in SM, then one of them swinging south, or with the expo line going to Venice before heading up the coast to SM (or vv. with expo line heading to Venice/MDR and the subway heading to SM before swinging south to meet up with it).

No matter what though, the lines need to meet up, so people can actually go from one to the other and get around…

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:02 +0000

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By: David

David — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:17:52 +0000

David: Sorry, meant to say via Marina Del Rey and Venice…