^ Thanks for posting those. It'll be interesting to see what happens on the "Meredith property" when the Gold Line hopefully goes through it on the way to the airport, possibly along the Cucamonga channel, as residents have suggested.
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Originally Posted by Westsidelife
1) The "Pink Line" as HRT was given the axe in favor of a cheaper alternative such as LRT subway (although a study needs to be conducted to see if it really is any cheaper -- I personally doubt it).
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I wouldn't say it's official yet (as Crenshaw North is still a ways off), but basically your right.
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2) The line will have a station at either Wilshire/Westwood or Wilshire/UCLA parking lot. It is presumed that UCLA will operate a shuttle to transport students from/to the heart of the campus.
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This will be useful until the 405 Corridor is built, with possibly a station at Ackerman Loop, near the heart of UCLA and a major stop for bus routes.
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3) Funding for the SM extension is not provided for in Measure R. I see the line extending all the way to SM one day, but lack of identifiable funding and issues with equity mean that it will be a while.
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If there's funding left over, this project would probably be the first in line to inherit it.
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Nothing much new in the article but the tone and content is reasonable. In general, I don't think the Times or WSJ have much of an anit-LA bias (although they sometimes have a failure to understand that it is possible to have a city that is different from NY; for example they don't note that London and Paris and closer in many ways to LA than is NY).
There are other writers that have a chronic, unchangeable dislike of LA but they are not of siginificance or concern.
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Having living in a major city whose transit network "survived" the era of suburban sprawl, in a way, they have every right to dislike LA. I think a great deal of this lies with the fact LA once did have a vast transportation system but carelessly tore virtually all of it down; and now, it's changing its mind. It's like, "well why didn't you keep the system you had in the first place when building your highways?".