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Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer

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Re: Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer

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Post by lapetitejort »

bradchris wrote: post #5
ETlol wrote: post #3

God it's frustrating how slow making these rail transits has been. The D line was literally planned out back in the 1960s and it took this long? I understand the plethora of problems the engineers faced when completing this. But I find it funny that once the World Cup was planned to be in LA, that's when LA leadership expedited all the legal and corporate hurdles in order to make sure we don't have another carmagetto…

Some of this was covered in the article, but it’s not actually Los Angeles’ leadership’s fault (rare praise for a city I love and call home), it was shovel-ready and funded to be built in the 80s. Then there was a ballot measure due to ongoing construction problems of a separate line in the 80s that banned tunneling in Los Angeles. This wasn’t overturned until 2007! Then Beverly Hills (which is also not part of Los A…

While all of this in happening, Metrolink, the rail service that connects LA, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties, is having their own budget crisis manifesting in "temporary" reductions in service. More info: https://calelectricrail.org/metrolink-is-facing-service-cuts...

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Post by efavdb »

raybb wrote: post #6
ETlol wrote: post #3

God it's frustrating how slow making these rail transits has been. The D line was literally planned out back in the 1960s and it took this long? I understand the plethora of problems the engineers faced when completing this. But I find it funny that once the World Cup was planned to be in LA, that's when LA leadership expedited all the legal and corporate hurdles in order to make sure we don't have another carmagetto…

Yeah... Kinda like how Paris used the Olympics to get the political willpower to cleanup the river. City's trying to brand themselves and look good on a global stage does funny things.

Hmm I also tend to clean house thoroughly only when guests come over. Perhaps an effect that should be applied.

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Post by shawn_w »

ortusdux wrote: post #11
DiscourseFan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its actually part of the official marketing campaign around the new extension.

Reminds me of South Lake Union Transit, though they did not embrace the moniker.

South Lake Union Trolley.

You can get t-shirts.

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Post by ngokevin »

ETlol wrote: post #3

God it's frustrating how slow making these rail transits has been. The D line was literally planned out back in the 1960s and it took this long? I understand the plethora of problems the engineers faced when completing this. But I find it funny that once the World Cup was planned to be in LA, that's when LA leadership expedited all the legal and corporate hurdles in order to make sure we don't have another carmagetto…

In 1985, a Ross Dress for Less exploded due to methane gas, and congressman Henry Waxman representing the westside used that to federally ban any idea of a subway for decades.

Prior to that, Henry Wilshire, who donated the land for Wilshire Blvd in 1895, made a condition that no rail lines would be built on Wilshire.

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Post by bobthepanda »

percentcer wrote: post #16

Los Angeles just needs buses that come through frequently enough to obviate the need to check the schedule. Also dynamic bus routing, which would reduce the total number of buses required for this.

Buses have a fundamental speed issue that subways do not because subways do not stop at intersections for cross traffic. At LA's vast scale you need a subway, possibly even express subways.
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