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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

SoapBox

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7. I'm just thinking about it here in Los Angeles...

Reply to nxylas (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 02:44 PM

Oct 2015

Pure gridlock...we have something like 1,000,000 people in 25,000,000 cars...at least that is what it feels like.

Public transportation sucks.

And what are our "leaders" locally and in the state doing/saying?

Zip.

Oh ya...bullet train to Vegas and/or bullet train from LA to SF.

But I can't get to LAX from 16 miles away.

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The argument for public transportation in one GIF [View all] nxylas Oct 2015 OP

They need to improve all around public transportation before yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1

Agreed nxylas Oct 2015 #2

Definitely! yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #3

And if that "one light rail" train actually went where those people wanted to go... PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #4

Yup. FiveGoodMen Oct 2015 #12

Simplified, perhaps, but hardly misleading nxylas Oct 2015 #17

Whoa, Skinner just rec'd this thread! nxylas Oct 2015 #5

.....heh..... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #8

That's pretty graphic, WOW! Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #6

I'm just thinking about it here in Los Angeles... SoapBox Oct 2015 #7

They used to talk about extending the Disneyland monorail to LAX. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #11

"A developed country is NOT one in which the poor drive cars, bvar22 Oct 2015 #9

going to send that one to my idiots, as well. niyad Oct 2015 #16

Every urban area needs to be designed around bikes passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #10

Meanwhile in China... progressoid Oct 2015 #13

The future will be decided by us, or for us, WHEN CRABS ROAR Oct 2015 #14

I am going to send this to our transit director, and the fools who run the lousy transit system here niyad Oct 2015 #15