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Over at Curbed LA, there was a post about the anniversary of the methane explosion at the Ross store on Third Street near Fairfax in 1985. This led to the federal legislation against subway tunneling under Wilshire Boulevard by Hnery Waxman, which is scheduled to be repealed today. This item led to a rather spirited debate in the comments section regarding new subways vs. monorails. Check it out here.

The Transit Coalition has set up a conference with Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail operations officials for Tuesday, October 24 at 6:45 p.m.

The information was taken from the group’s message board.

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There will be more people driving to Orange County for work in 20 years, even from L.A. County, according to this Los Angeles Times article.

The Orange County Transportation Authority is spending billions to widen roads, add commuter rail service and increase the bus fleet.

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Late buses missed connections are nothing new to bus riders, and they happen to agencies good and bad.
The L.A. Downtown News wrote about problems with the DASH services in the city center.

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Wilshire Boulevard has emerged as again a candidate for a subway to the sea. It is the busiest bus corridor in Los Angeles County, and also has the busiest Metro Rapid line.

The subway may be two decades away, but if local and Rapid service isn’t enough, Wilshire will get … Rapid service. Again.

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Well, it’s finally happened. According to the Daily News, that new light rail project that will go from Downtown LA to Culver City has been given a name: The Expo Line. After a seemingly endless amount of discussion and time spent trying to decide what to call the city’s first bit of rail that goes further west than Koreatown a decision has been made and we can move on. Or can we?

Well not really because the train will still have to labeled on a map with a color, and that color is still up in the air. So in the end nothing has been solved because now all we have is a silly name that people will probably soon forget once they start refering to the line by its color on the map. Apparently, internally at the MTA this discussion about the name/color of the new line has been a “drawn-out debate” that many board members have grown to resent.

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