I'm always amused when people take it from 0 to 100 in a second with sarcasm. Tough times we live in
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Yes there are dozens of transit agencies in the region and yes they are all different and yes.....yes I'm from Long Beach?.....ok...cool....at the end of the day, these agencies all work together to avoid stepping on each others toes with construction and schedules, metro may not have came up with the idea but its aware. I mean.... Its full name is literally the Los Angeles
COUNTY Transportation Authority.
To be clear. I'm not blaming metro for double decker buses or anything. I blame metro for not having a solid view of the future for this cities/counties transit needs. That way, neighboring agencies will have some form of guidance with future projects. The current foothill fleet apparently is already pretty packed AND is already sitting in traffic. So replacing the long articulated buses with Double Decker buses does what exactly ? same capacity and sitting in the same traffic
At this point in LAs life, buses are Band-Aids. Why continue to put Band-Aids on bullet holes? "Well bus lanes work wonderful" yeah when they aren't blocked by parked cars our tourists and locals who are confused on why its a bus lane only part time.
As someone who drives a around a loooooooot in this city....Not all traffic lights are created equal. Some will need to be altered. There have been a plenty a times where I've watched a semi graze the blue hanging street sign or watch the tourist traps have to make a detour off their normal route just to have everyone on the top level immediately drop for cover to avoid getting injured. True story just last week.