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mello, I believe SD actually built a surface transit line----the red trains that run towards tijuana----before LA got its blue line train, which goes between dtla & long beach, in 1990. SD also started to revive its dt in a really significant way around 10 yrs before the same thing started to happen in LA.

I think the greater congestion of streets & fwys in LA compared with SD finally forced more ppl to take the need for better transit more seriously. So if only out of desperation, they approved the transit tax a few yrs ago. If you look back at the history of similar taxes on the ballot, going back to the 1970s, ppl in LA----esp out in the burbs, or throughout the county----never gave even a simple majority of their support to the idea of increasing sales taxes for transit.