LA gets $900M to boost public transit before 2028 Olympics
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2024
- Los Angeles and California leaders celebrated Wednesday the arrival of $900 million from Washington D.C.to improve public transportation before the 2028 Olympics. NBC Los Angeles’ Conan Nolan reports.
Make ALL of LA and Orange County walkable, with protected bike lines, light rail on every street, and put the High speed rail on the fast track!!!!
Just boost bus service and build PROPER 🚇
That won’t ever happen; LA is a sprawl and not dense enough to justify investment in mass transit
agreed.
another important part of a walkable city is getting rid of the crazy homeless people and criminals
900M, not 900B. :D
Great!
But:
1. 900 Million isn't that much, especially compared to the cost of highway expansions
2. You should not need a big event to invest in public transit infrastructure!
3. Please also invest in infrastructure for cycling, walking, Busses etc..
4. Make streets safer: f.e. narrow them when possible, use curbes and roundabouts so driver have to slow down an actually look for pedestrants and crosstrafic
The corrupt Los Angeles politicians will steal it all anyway. LA will be an even bigger dump after the money is gone.
The 900 million is to fund the new buses required for the Olympics and those will replace the old busses. So they’re using it to finish most of the extensions we’re already building
This is LA. The transit advocates only care about rails and parking lots around rail stations. Every major transit project since 90 has nothing to do with walkable. It has something to do with driving to train stations n taking Uber at th other end. I got so tired of lie. Starting 2008, not only I don't believe the lie, I don't support any measures for improvement. This is not measure but extra funding, so I just don't believe the lie.
Oh, the 2008 increase the sales tax to improve transit, the advocates who supported the measure n read thoroughly that since lots of rails are built, many bus services would be cut.
That is true. Many so called duplicate bus services were cut.
What is the definition of duplicate? Taking 3 or 4 one hour frequency buses instead 2 30 to 45 minute frequency. That is the meaning of duplicate.
This is not improvement of transit for Olympic because those athletes can not still get around.
Let's hope LA will not come another around of bus services improvement by cutting more vital lousy so call bus service routes.
In one bus services meetings I attended, many of us were so angry n said if LA continued to damage bus services, we will stop supporting rail.
Well, at least we cannot stop this, it's extra funding to kill local bus service n help Uber drivers to take athletes to n from stations.
@@commentorsilensor3734I'm a life long Angeleno and have no illusion of LA being a walkable city from end to end like Paris. Why? Geography. Paris is 40 square miles and their Metro is over 100 years old. LA is 500 square miles. Over 10 TIMES AS LARGE AS PARIS! And, LA Metro only started in 1990. Give it another 70 years and it will be much more walkable, but still not like Paris.
What LA will have is a growing number of walkable regions. However, the individual car is still going to play a pivotal role. It will increasingly help serve as a stop gap for FLM.
I foresee a Metro system where you can get to a Metro station within 15 minutes anywhere in not only Los Angeles, but all of LA County. People will be able to walk 15 minutes, or bike 15 minutes, or take a 15 minute bus ride (BRT), or drive 15 minutes to a Metro station. That is the kind of unique Metro network that is very doable for LA. No need to drive your car more than 15-30 minutes a day for LA would be a seismic event. It would dramatically change the entire LA County.
While extra Transit Investment is always a positive, I find it frustrating that there needs to be some type of justification such as the Olympics. Rarely is there a mentality of “Build it & they will come” like often happens with Highway projects
Look at China prior to 2008
NOT TRUE! All the transit projects currently being built were started before LA bid for the games. This is just additional money that will help get it done a little sooner.
And, in fact, LA wanted the 2024 games originally, not the 2028 games which LA got as a consolation prize.
i don't think they realize how little 900m is compared to how much their roads cost
LA is flat enough to be a cycling paradise! Build trails and protected bike lanes
It takes a few athletes out of millions of residents and tourists just to fix our public transportation? What a joke we are!
That happens in every country that hosts the Olympics and says a lot about modern day governments.
NOT TRUE! All the transit projects currently being built were started before LA bid for the games. This is just additional money that will help get it done a little sooner.
And, in fact, LA wanted the 2024 games originally, not the 2028 games which LA got as a consolation prize.
Yet EVERYONE wants to live here. Los Angeles is severely falsely glorified.
Olympics are historically a huge catalyst for growing any cities infrastructure
"a few athletes" is a broad misunderstanding of a tourism event like the Olympics.
Although I do not live there, I'm very excited to see the development of public transit in LA. With a city that size, it is necessary that they have a well funded transit system to cut down on traffic and increase economic opportunities for those who cannot afford or do not want a car.
As a native Angeleno, thank you for speaking kindly of our city. I see so many people saying disparaging things about Los Angeles, when it's quite clear they've never been here. I love LA, and wouldn't live anywhere else on earth. I have been to a lot of cities, nothing compares to LA.
thats very kind of you. i hope your area benefits from this expense as well
NO NO NO, this funding just like the other improvement will not help. The 90% funding go to two rails. This has nothing to do to make walkable. Just like the other improvement.
I have lived in LA for 40 years. I never drive. I have witnessed the so cal,Ed improvement that hurt non car drivers.
Y'all put freeway exits in neighborhoods and that's why it's always a mess 😑
I think that every other exit should be removed from urban freeways
The olympics logo is already tagged up 🤣
lmfaoo fitting right
LMFAOOO
What a joke 900m but they spend billions on roads every year
the interesting thing about government projects is that you'll low ball a price on a project, then it always goes underbudget and you need to request more money to complete the project. source: i've worked for city engineers
L.A. is the only city that earn money from the Olympics.
*metro CEOs
And people mover will still be delay
Paris left the chat
During the Reagan era....
@@patrickmccarthy6798Reagan had nothing to do with it. It was all Los Angeles.
I hope to god that we can get something along 405, absolute hell every time I go to socal
LA Metro would get done if politicians and rich people in Beverly Hills and Hollywood stop complaining. I can get to Universal, Long Beach, even f-ing Alhambra but not UCLA? They can build in Asia but not in America 🙄
By 2027 you will.
NIMBYism is a cancer in California unfortunately. What's worse is our elected representatives don't have the guts to do much about.
Meanwhile Chicago transit is losing ridership. Competent leadership goes a long way.
How about some investment in the Sepulveda Pass, that way the San Fernando Valley would be connected to Santa Monica, UCLA, Westwood and many other destinations in West side.
It's in the works.
my mind was blown when they said light rail to sfv. imagine....
This one does.
How do non car drivers get to future SFV rail stations?
WLA is small part of LA.
How do people get around once they get out stations?
WLA may have the best public transportation in LA car centric, still more than 90% of WLA, public transportation is terrible.
For example, how do you get from Culver city EXPO station to Fox hill mall.
Drive 5 miles.
Walk 5 miles.
Forget about taking more than 2 infrequent buses.
Note, lots of business, offices, shopping centers, n apartments around Fox hill Mall.
Note , lots of business, offices, shopping centers, n apartments between Culver city station n Fox hill mal.
That doesn't stop transit advocates from sabotage local bus service improvement.
YES
Build it baby
They should do congestion pricing. They'll collect so much money that they build more lines and/or increase service and frequency, build more bike and pedestrian paths, and at the same time reduce traffic. Win-win!!!
how much cooler would it have been for it to be 2032 for a 100 year anniversary of the 1932 olympics.
That's a big reason they gave 2024 to Paris instead of LA. It's Paris' 100 year anniversary since they last hosted. LA got the consolation prize of 2028, but it was a blessing in disguise since it's given LA time to complete some very important transit infrastructure like the LAX People Mover among others.
I agree. It would have been cool for LA, too.
Let’s goooo….new projects are needed desperately even though progress has been great so far, it can always use a speed up
Why didn't they build the SoFi stadium and Dodger Stadium closer to the train stations in the first place? Look at how successful Petco Park is in downtown San Diego. The revenue each game and concert brings to downtown SD instead of just a stadium surrounded by endless asphalt like the Dodger stadium that brings in minimal economics contribution to downtown LA.
Because the needed available land wasn't in that location. Pretty obvious.
Isn’t Dodger stadium right next door to LA’s biggest train station? Maybe the problem isn’t the distance to transit but the neighborhood itself? Idk. I’d pick downtown SD over DTLA any night. There’s a homeless encampment right across the street from Union Station. yikes
The only time the area will be cleaned up
Wasserman will be at his best with that $900 M.
We need rail directly to sofi!
They don't tell you how much they're spending on it.😅😅😅😅😅
We’ve LITERALLY been hearing about the subway to the sea since 2008! I’ll believe it when i see it! Same with light rail in the valley. I’d love to see it as I’m also a valley resident but I’ve been disappointed by metro for my entire life!
It's the NIMBY residents that are delaying it
Exactly, right!
they completed another stop. current development is being done on the station that is UCLA adjacent. Yes it is underway. hardhats working 9 - 5. next one being planed out
@@regularperson9965 as someone who voted for it back in 2008…. I’ll believe it when i see it!
@@381delirius beverly hills lost their court battles to stop the D line extension so not it's full steam ahead. I swear transit needs protection from BS lawsuits
Can we track how the money is being spent as well ???
Yes, and no. The transit agencies involved may provide some very high level information on their website, but if you want any sort of granular detail that would most likely require you to formally request the information and with this being $900 million in funding that would take a lot of time.
@@micalbrrr im guessing 100m for public transportation and 800m to the pockets of californias finest politicians 😂
Yes. It's publicly available. Contact LA Metro.
It might be on the states dot website
I have an idea, bring back the discontinued bus routes and restore their service coverage to 2019 levels
Great news. Would've been nice though to see a map of the lines that will be built, other than the fleeting glimpse that we were shown.
It's a terrible new.
Be prepared to get stuck in LA if you don't drive even after 900 million are used
@@commentorsilensor3734 I'm not so sure about that. The walkscore for LA from the website of the same name is a surprisingly high 69. By way of comparison, Portland OR of all places comes in at 67.
The $900 million grant is NOT going to any actual Olympics related improvements. The references to the 1932 Games is irrelevant. The 1984 Games were a great success because you had a strong administrator in charge, not various city officials fighting for control.
are we gonna have to start paying fares
Need add transit train for other area in Los Angeles
It's happening. Watch the video.
I did but that's not even close to enough
Just Imagine how much is going to the Pockets of Politicians and their Friends and Family….
800million
$899,999,999.99
two dollars
Oh it's a criminal enterprise, they stealing so much money. And there is no accountability, "The system is too big to fail" and they have a monopoly on EVERYTHING. SMH
This won’t be able to fix 100 years of car based infrastructure, mindset, and lobbying. The whole world is about to see how we live here in the good ole USA
Sounds like you want to move lol
Oh please do
why $900m, why not just make it $1b
That's insane.
In other words, higher management will get a 100% pay increase.
Yeah it should have happened decades ago.
The city council bout to have big raises and expensive “Company Retreat” trips.
LA County needs a public transit system like New York and Chicago.
date on 2028???
The LA28 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony is set for July 14, 2028, with the Games running through July 30, 2028, and the LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off August 15, 2028, and close August 27, 2028.
@@RaymondHngThanks. Though many news outlets and athletes could be in LA weeks before.
LA is in its renaissance. Its time to right the wrongs of the past. Change is coming. LA is becoming what it always needed to be.
It always needed to be a crime ridden cesspool?
Indeed. Absolutely correct.
Indeed. Absolutely correct.
please hire contractors from Europe and Asia. Americans have NO CLUE how to do transit projects successfully.
LA transit advocates or US transit advocates have problems.
They only like rails.
They believe public transportation improvements involve rail only. They have cars anyway.
That's reason past 30 transit improvements did not help non car drivers.
That's reason even people work companies right by rails don't even rails.
That's reason supervisors in governments where the building are withinveasy commute of LA union Station ask this question, do you mind driving in this terrible traffic to come here every day.
THAT'S reason Microsoft seminar near union Station has this advice. We do not pay for parking,. Please park at this location.
Locations near union Station are very walkable. People are still driving because how do you get to union Station without cars.
The other places without good local bus service, paradise for Uber drivers
The reason that LA had great mass transit 100 years ago was because most people lived in the city center where the density of population created the demand for mass transit
It was actually the other way around. The reduction of mass transit, zoning restrictions, subsidizations of single family detached housing, and parking minimums (which lead to a feed back loop of de-densifying to accommodate more cars the the lower density makes it less viable to not use a car) created demand for Cars due to lack of viable options of transportation.
And, because very few people owned a car.
No, sprawl in LA began in LA in 1870, that was after the city of LA had a transit system and a city center. Affluent people from LA wanted to live in houses far from the city center. This caused there to be less and less demand over mass transit through the decades and eventually GM paid the city to buy out the street car system to sell cars because that is what the people wanted. I know all of this because I am from LA.
No, sprawl in LA began in LA in 1870, that was after the city of LA had a transit system and a city center. Affluent people from LA wanted to live in houses far from the city center. This caused there to be less and less demand over mass transit through the decades and eventually GM paid the city to buy out the street car system to sell cars because that is what the people wanted. I know all of this because I am from LA.
@@shanroxalot5354 it seemed like a great idea at the time but all the cheap land withing 2 hours drive of the city center has been built out we need to think differently. force cities to allow density everywhere and build transit
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I screamed “LIGHT RAIL IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY???!!!”
Dual ceremonies WTH is that. Ridiculous
It might be that Sofi gets the opening ceremonies and the Colosseum the closing ceremonies.
I sure hope California doesn’t embarrass with all the homeless and trash
No they kick/sweep them out before. They cleared SF during APAC.. for the month. Don’t worry though the homeless came back soon after.
As if raising that money for an event that only happens every 4 years instead of addressing the perpetual problem that is homelessness and trash isn't embarrassing enough 😅
They'll have the cops sweep them out temporarily. But once the Olympics is over, it'll go back to the drug zombie apocalypse.
Watch them delay the projects a few years or over 5 years. They are still not done with the LAX people mover, which delays the Metro Green/K Line until 2025/2026.
Not true. The K line will open first. It runs on the lower level of the shared station so it's not dependent on the LAX People Mover to be open at the same time.
@@mrxman581 Neither are open. What are you talking about?
900M? What a joke lol
Watch how fast that $900M disappears
Well yeah, it's a negible amount. Itd get consumed by a small rail project, or large city wide transit way project.
It's about the equivalent cost as one interchange. car brains (like i assume you are) wouldn't bat an eyelid at that
Superheroes no show
The true athletes get up everyday at 3am to get to work for 30 years . Take care of us 1st..
It's going to be hilarious
The last time U.S. hosteded the Games was 1984. Yes!
That is incorrect. Atlanta, Georgia hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics. Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
The entire world will now get to see nothing has changed, and we are now more diverse
They love to lie to you and tell you that somehow the city is better off with all that going on down there. You people are not better off. You are spending your tax dollars on that. You got people in that City that need help
Prediction: all the money will goes into metro officials own pockets, and la metro by the time of 2028 will still not having basic restrooms at all stations, and still not fully grade separated and people mover will still be delay, west santa ana will stay open in 2040. Nothing changed.
Probably just a few bus lines then that's it.
Add security on there to protect citizens from the crazies.
I plan to protest the Olympics
sb
This is the third time LA will have hosted the Olympics and not once have they ever had to compete against other cities. It’s always been handed to them by default.
I'm curious about that. I'm guessing it's because of availability of space?
And both past games were huge successes. Many have said the 1984 games saved the Summer Olympics.
They competed against Paris for the 2024 games. LA was awarded the 2028 games a few months later as a consolation prize.
How about use some of that money to enforce keeping the homeless from living & sleeping on the trains?
Our communities are not going to be improved from this. That money needs to go directly into communities and to help the homeless and mentally disadvantaged. We continue to allow our government to do whatever they want with money that we don't even have😅
Unlike the 1984 games, this one is likely going to be a disaster - Rio level. The state of this city and the state in general is at its lowest.
They said that in 198, too. Turned out to be the most successful Summer Olympics in modern times.
Due to California's tedious and too numerous regulations, 900 million dollars is enough to repair 50 meters of road on a 3 year schedule.
Not expecting much from this.
Lol! It’ll get wasted on things like expanded curbs and buffers
Start with beefing up security, cleaning up train cars and stations, and prevent druggies and homeless to use public transportation - they are dirty, they smell, they carry dirty bags, they cuss, they smoke - underground! LA metro is not usable by normal people. This is what LA metro needs, not "accessibility". Ugh.
They are already doing that.
@@mrxman581 If they do, the result is not visible.
we went to LA in August 2023, was so disappointed with the subway, 1, stinky pee smells through out the station. 2, about the same number of mentally drugged people as ordinary passengers, yelling and cursing and wandering around, 3. Muggy hot station, and dark. 4. Waited 12-15 minutes for a subway train to arrive, it was a Sunday though. 5. Inside the train it was almost completely empty, temp about 85 degrees F or more. (30 degrees Celsius). We feel very sad for the once great city.
Not true. LA Metro subway is fully air-conditioned. Most of tge time, it's too cold.
@@mrxman581It was true for him. You weren’t there.
@@mrxman581 I havn't really had problems with it, personally. I don't doubt that sketchy stuff happens sometimes but it's overblown by suburbanites who don't even live anywhere near LA
@@finned958You don't know that. It smacks of sensationalism. I'm speaking from personal experience.
@@mrxman581 He’s speaking from personal experience. You can’t invalidate his personal experience just because you disagree for some reason.
All of a sudden there is money for the Olympics but never money for the homeless problem or affordable housing?
There actually is money for the homeless... We just can't account for where it went xD xD >
Billions have been spent on the homeless in the last 7 years across California, but there is very little accountability.
I wonder if they'll clear all the homeless camps ahead of the Olympics, like San Francisco did ahead of APEC.
Oh now they want to update the public transit system
Yeah, that was the point of the video
Why would you comment that, clearly insinuating something, but not make it clear at all what you're insinuating
The best thing public transit in the US could do is hire security personnel who stay in the rail cars and buses
They're already doing that over the last several months.
900 thats nothing . The mobility in this city is bad, very bad unless you have a car you're fucked
Last I checked, LA doesn’t need so much of an upgrade of its transit as it needs people there to use it. Shrinking headways would help but as long as it’s perceived that cars are free transport transit will have issues.
Still, LA only mede money on 1984 because nobody else wanted it and LA was able to cut through the champagne dreams and caviar wish list of the IOC. Barcelona made money because their olympics weee a coming out fronts long Franco slumber. Otherwise, the Olympics are a loser for destination cities.
shrink highways and headways
Not completely, Los Angeles was very creative in holding down costs as well. It saved the games.
Train frequencies were increased late last year on both subways and light rail lines.
Spend it on security.
Build all the trains you want, but people won't use them unless you can keep the homeless psycho drug addicts off of them.
Marvin, they plan to revive the 'LA Spaces' program too. ;/) Problem solved.
Using the money for an event that only happens every 4 years instead of addressing the homeless psycho drug addicts that are perpetual year round is part of the problem
@@doriancoreyscloset421 Every 4 years? The last time it was in L.A. was forty years ago.
It's not only the bums, but the horrible ghetto gang-infested neighborhoods that some of the trains go through. I rode the train from Union Station to Long Beach once, never again.
Theres homeless all over the country. This isnt a regional problem, bud. The federal government needs to do something about this.
Shows you where their priorities are. What a joke
So why should State and Federal taxpayers pay for projects you knew you couldn’t afford?
UPDATE: KRAK dispensers will be imported from NYC, for in clue see we tee.
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The bulk of 900 million will go to two projects to help athletes get around towns.
Were those people on the news born on Mar n never set foot on LA.
It mentioned purple line extension n San Fernando Valley rail.
West LA may have the best transit in LA, but in many parts of WLA, what happens afrer you get out of rails? Walk is faster than taking buses. But at least part makes more sense in the sentence because WLA is more walkable than LA.
What happens after getting out of SFV rail. Except of Ventura blvd, SFV is not walkable nor with good public transportation. So how do people get around.
How do people get to rail stations? Even in downtown LA, many places have terrible public transportation.
For the past 30 years, LA has a lot money to make sure LA residents must have two cars. People can drive to stations and out of stations. It is never been walkable.
Media is never helpful. Liberal media n NBC keep saying walking n promoting you need cars to use rails.
BTw, sending athletes to Santa Monica pier is not helping them to get around town.
So without the olympics nothing will be done?
The city will take all the profit and not do anything to make the city better.
More money, more problems
They will see all the homeless people and the thrash on the streets with high crime on LA great example or reallity for tourist to see the real california dream
Already pocketed
...and the homeless issue?
I wonder what they are going to do with all the hobos it will be interesting
The BULK of that money will line Newsom's pocket!
Well you might want to up the security too with all the homeless and mentally unstable everywhere!! And not only that people who are not because violence has increased in Los angeles. Have you told the people that?! 😂😂😂
Public transportation is a joke in the United States. I hoped that the federal government would give out some cars for the athletes.
Lol 2028 los angeles will be too dangerous for anything.
Why waste $900 mil in California
Politicians need their kickbacks.
Doesn't California have like more people there then the we have in Australia?
Why wouldn't they get infrastructure?
Or, are you more so expressing an emotion you're feeling but too cowardly to admit that, so you dress it up as being more thoughtful then that?
they should say they're Ukranian then they will get billions!
WASET IF MONEY ON A TRASH HEEP
Great maybe they can put beds and safe injection sites on the light rail for all the homeless that live on it
No one wants to go to LA to see the olympics
On behalf of all the homeless people, i would like to thank you for more homeless shelters on wheels. L.A. is a joke, Bass is a buffoon, and her entourage a circus.😂
Oh more money for California to waste!!
It’s going to be a shitbshow
LA is projected to be a bigger slum in 2028.