2021 Update on LA Metro Projects (Part 1 of 3)
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2021
- First of a three-part series on the latest news regarding LA Metro projects as of April 2021. This video runs through all the projects except the Sepulveda Line. The second video will cover the Sepulveda Line, and the third will cover the federal infrastructure bill and how it may impact Metro funding and schedules.
To submit a public comment regarding Crenshaw North (ask them to add a La Brea+Spur option to the environmental review!), email crenshawnorth@metro.net with your comment by May 28th, or participate in one of these three virtual scoping meetings:
Thursday, April 29, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/87500507019 Meeting ID: 875 0050 7019
Thursday, May 6, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/82996680178 Meeting ID: 829 9668 0178
Saturday, May 8, 10 AM - Noon
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/84880363069... ID: 848 8036 3069
Follow this time-stamped link ( • 2020 Update on LA Metr... ) to see my full La Brea+Spur proposal from last year's video.
For good resources for Metro news, check out:
urbanize.city/la
la.streetsblog.org
or follow @numble (who is not me) on Twitter, who often posts Metro documents and highlights any news
Maps contained in the video:
Post-Measure-M LA Metro: i.imgur.com/c784I5Z.jpg
Metro’s Latest Long-Range Plans: i.imgur.com/BnbZu13.jpg (an update to this will come this summer)
When not ranting about the Crenshaw Line, I’m a documentary producer and editor. If you want to see more stuff by me that's entirely unrelated to the Metro, check out the documentary Behind the Curve (about flat-earthers and the psychology of belief) streaming on Netflix, or to rent or buy on iTunes/Amazon/Google Play. Or to see some more of my editing, check out the documentary Transhood on HBO. Currently, we’re at work on a doc about the hunt for Planet Nine, among other projects. You can find me on Twitter at @NickAndert.
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Can’t wait for 2050 to see the whole of the Crenshaw line completed
Elon said he would have 1 million people in Mars by then. So In that perspective, the Crenshaw line is a bigger feat than having a nation on Mars.
@@egret4393 Elon kinda wild
I'll be 92 years old...sigh!
LOL Ain't never going to be done...
The K Line is Completed
I was literally JUST watching your 2020 update video. Glad there's more!
Submitted my comment to Crenshaw North. I’ll go on the zoom next Saturday to try and tell them that two lines are better then 1.5 lines actually.
Also find it ridiculous how the current Green (C) line doesn't connect to Norwalk Metrolink. It should have been done 20 years ago but it's scheduled for 2052???? It's the easiest no-brainer of projects to accomplish, but Norwalk NIMBY's of course. My friend's brother (pre-pandemic) commuted to UCI from Harbor Gateway and I couldn't imagine the drive being pretty. Not saying he would've taken Metro+Metrolink but at least it would have been on the table. The Norwalk 4 bus is so wonky that it's actually occasionally faster to go to downtown than to take that bus and connect. Even if the bus runs on time and you have perfect transfers, you'll still save around 12 minutes, and double or more that if bus transfers don't go perfectly (local buses almost never do).
I live in la and am an urban planning nerd, didn't think a third video would come so soon, yay lol.
Welcome back, indeed! What a pickle we find ourselves in right now. Thanks for keeping us all up to speed!
As a Redondo Beach resident I'd be willing to temporarily sack that green line extension project for your WeHo adjunct. But only if we could get the WeHo line done before the olympics.
There are hardly any busses out of the Redondo station. I'd be happy with more busses instead for now.
Having an extra WeHo line in place for the Olympics would really benefit the city. The Redondo extension could be part of whatever follows Measure M. I ride the green line all the time and it has very little ridership.
The Green Line has little ridership? I know it gets packed at rush hour going east towards Norwalk.
@@svscared I should have clarified. The portion of the green line west of Aviation. I’m often 1 of only 3 getting off at Redondo.
yeah the green line extension honestly isnt' gonna be as useful, since its stopping at a place that doesnt really have good connections. Id rather see the money go to denser areas
Something I'm hyped about is my hometown, Lancaster, is planning on converting it's business route into a BRT. That route being Route 1, which goes from the newly added South Valley Transit Center to the other newly added Lancaster Boulevard Transit Center. As of 2019 it ran from 5AM to 8AM in intervals of 30 minutes, intervals of 15 minutes from 8AM-3PM, 30 minutes from 3PM-9PM, and 60 from 9PM-12AM. It had proposed a new schedule of intervals of 15 minutes from 7AM-7PM last year, however the pandemic caused a lot of people to stay home and it slowed things down. Hopefully the new schedule will be able to begin by the end of 2021.
I heard you in the meeting! Hope you enjoyed my shaky ramblings haha. I made sure to advocate for the spur and the potential SM/La Cienega line as well. Other people are bringing up the spur too!
Nice, great to see you back dude. Really enjoyed your previous video.
i visited la about 5 years ago and first time in many years rode the metro. honestly it was a really cool experience. convenient to get around places.
really hope the metro expands and wish good luck to the engineers and builders
Here’s a form letter for Crenshaw North courtesy of Irwin Chen!
To: crenshawnorth@metro.net
Re: Comments for Crenshaw northern extension
After reviewing the three existing options, La Brea, Fairfax, and hybrid, I strongly urge Metro to add a fourth option: La Brea plus Santa Monica spur.
The hybrid option is fundamentally flawed because it mixed the east-west travel corridor on Santa Monica Blvd with the general north-south direction of the Crenshaw line. This will result in long travel time and will not best serve either the east-west nor the north-south travelers. In light of City of West Hollywood's strong commitment to the line, I believe it is in the best interest of all parties to acknowledge that hybrid option is a poor compromise to the forced marriage of two different travel corridors.
The La Brea plus Santa Monica spur concept acknowledges the reality that these are two separate travel corridors. Instead of continuing the flawed hybrid compromise, there should be a vision for what the rail network could look like in the future. A spur line on Santa Monica Blvd traveling from Hollywood /Highland to Santa Monica/Robertson will satisfy the City of West Hollywood's desire for Metro service within its borders. The spur can operate in conjunction with the La Brea train and not unnecessarily impact the service quality of the Crenshaw line via La Brea. There are further benefits to this concept as the line can be extended in the future south/west to purple line station at La Cienega or Century City; and east towards Downtown LA via Santa Monica blvd. And as proposed, the La Brea plus Santa Monica spur concept has roughly the same amount of track mileage as the hybrid option but offers significantly faster travel time between Hollywood/Highland and LAX and beyond.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Name
Thanks dude! Will do this!
Ack! I'm in late June!!!
I should have Subscribed sooner!
I LOVE your video! However, I wonder if you could please lower the volume of the background music in your future videos? Your voice-over is wonderfully fast-paced and so is your background music but both those factors and the fact that you swallow the end of your sentences makes it pretty difficult to understand some of what you're saying. I found I had to turn on the subtitles for this video unfortunately. Anyways, keep up the good work! I can't wait for the next two installments! :)
Love to see all the new lines and extentions in the next 10 years at LA. Meanwhile in Orange County a small street car line is being built and in the next 10 years maybe a extention to pioneer or John Wayne Airport. The mayor's and politicians in OC need to stop blocking new transit opportunities.
The plan is to have just about all of these lines done by the Olympics in 2028.
OC is too suburban. No way the people there would allow stuff to be built
As a guy who just got hired by Metro, well...
Also, now the City of Inglewood wants a bridge 🌉 on the intersection of Centinela & Florence?! 🤦🏻♂️ Told ya that Inglewood is still up to no good!
Also, the Arts District Station 🚉 is making more sense as the 6th Street bridge is gonna be expanding to a more 🚲/people friendly. Why not?
Tell your coworkers we all want the SaMo WeHo spur! Hybrid routes are lame! Two great lines are rad!
@@jonathaneby1440 - if only I could, but I work in Carson. Maybe I can get involved in their town hall meeting. Also, I want WeHo to get their proper rail line. Cities that are super interested in having a light rail 🚈 or 🚇 SHOULD get their way.
I prefer the Fairfax segment for Crenshaw Extension. As it serve more places than La Brea. However, I do agree that Metro should operate the San Vicente Portion to Venice (west), El Monte (or even Baldwin Park), or Glendale (east).
it’s here LETSSS GOOOOOOO
part 2?
Enjoyed the video! We need as much expansion as possible, particularly the D Line to Santa Monica and the B Line to BUR!!
As someone who's never been west of Staten Island, but loves transit, maps, and cities...
I think you're 110% right about the northern K line. Keep going straight northwards, and add a new connecting line for WeHo that would be a start for a line to keep going east (to Glendale?) and to the southwest (yay transfers to the D & E line!). Build a network the covers a lot by actually building a functioning network, not by building rail lines that squiggle all over the place (like so many US bus routes seem to do).
Kind of amazed how little I've ever heard about the Lincoln BRT project. It's been on the project lists for a long time and I've barely heard a peep.
It would be so good and I want it so bad.
It honestly needs to be a subway as a BRT just isn't enough to cut it. Ideally I would love for the D line to get extended to Downtown Santa Monica and then curve to the left and meet back up with the E Line before continuing south on Lincoln to LAX but sadly it doesn't appear that will be likely to happen anytime soon.
I always wondered if he was telling Willow that the bones never told him anything or if they simply told him nothing at that moment?! Mad props for using it I laughed so loud. 🤣
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A MONTH
The debate over the Downtown Burbank station connection will probably result in new construction to access the Amtrak/Metrolink station safer or a total demolishing of the Olive Avenue bridge. I agree with Metro that it is not a safe location for a pedestrian crossing even with traffic signals.
I like the modifications they've made to the Eagle Rock leg of the BRT. Despite the vocal opposition, there's a lot of vocal support in Eagle Rock, and those residents' public comments got the bus lanes removed from the side and into the center and retained buffered bike lanes on both sides.
Glad to see Metro reaffirmed those A/E line routings. That move to reroute them from Long Beach to East LA and Santa Monica to SGV was completely motivated by racism.
Thanks for doing more videos!
What I seriously don't understand is why areas don't just "let it roll", like the Inglewood intersection, and find a solution that doesn't disrupt rail construction and operation. It's easier to reroute cars than a train while an overpass or trench is built. If we ever want anything built, we should require our elected leaders to ride public transit at least once a week so they understand dynamics better.
Otherwise, great video @nandert, keep em coming! You should seriously consider partnering with some engineering and transportation related channels (City Beautiful, Real Engineering, etc...) to really get this content out there!
Your idea of the Crenshaw line under the Cahuenga Pass to downtown Burbank, along with the BRT/future rail shifting to Chandler (along with the studio connector idea) is gold. Early in the NoHo to Pasadena BRT planning I'd hoped the line would run on Chandler but was told that it had been ruled out by the city. There is controversy in Burbank over even allowing BRT through at present, which is very frustrating.
5:30 IMO, the Fairfax alignment does a bit of what both the La Brea and Hybrid alignments are trying to achieve in terms of speed and connection to major destinations.
This video is fantastic! Excellent walkthrough of Metro's progress. Looking forward to more!
Why don't you see the bigger problem? The LA Metro is LA County! LA City is receiving almost all the Metro. LA City population is 40% of LACounty! Yet the highest ridership is outside the city lines.
I've been dreaming of extension projects since 2006. Slowly but surely. Came back from Tokyo in 2019; crazy how developed it is and have no issues building expensive dense railways, but then again, the city was built around that and not the automobile.
Crenshaw Line is actually pretty sad :( Thank you for the videos! Can't wait for part 2: The most confusing project ever
I really wish they would do a blue line spur in Long Beach along the right-of-way to Marine Stadium. They stupidly started selling it off in the 90's. As Metro builds out, Long Beach is becoming relatively underserved in the sense that there's no grid down there and the at-grade Blue Line in Long Beach is relatively slow.
An east-west route in long-beach should definitely be higher on the priority list, I agree. If something connected to the airport too, we'd be on our way to getting most airports connected to transit in some way.
transit wise, long beach is effectively cut off from the south bay. If you don't live near Torrance 3, or the 232, you have to take a roundabout (long) way of getting to Long Beach, if it even works at all.
great video, really high production quality. i'm always frustrated by the relative lack of brt projects in la (put it on every arterial, cmon...) but we got what we got i guess.
I'm super glad your back!!!!!
Excellent video, thanks for sharing
I'm still waiting.
I'm Confused as to why the Del Amo Fashion Center is notably absent as a terminus for the South Bay extension of the Metro C Line. The Galleria is getting a lot of attention for its proximity to existing train tracks but I am surprised Why the much larger mall to the south Is not a part of the extension which would be a logical terminus. The hotels, malls and restaurants would be a huge nexus of people. The proposed terminus is right next to a lumberyard and a refinery. People will end their trip on the train and look at industrial blight short of a nice mall.
It's been awhile since he posted this video, and no doubt a few things have changed. The original plan for the South Bay extension included buying the railroad right-of-way through the South Bay (which Metro did), and using that for the light rail line. That's the budget option. Long term, by ending it at Crenshaw now, later it could be extended further south and east to connect with the A (Blue) line in Long Beach. This would be a win for being able to get around the whole region by rail. But to South Bay residents, running the line down Hawthorne instead of the ROW makes a lot more sense, because that's where transit users want to go. Local residents do NOT want it running through their backyards. Maybe a spur (or dedicated bus lanes) to Del Amo Mall (or even PCH) could be added later.
As far as the currently planned terminus and transit center at Crenshaw, it seems odd at first glance. However, that location is near an industrial park (which now has a stoplight) and the Pueblo neighborhood on Del Amo, as well as the western side of downtown Torrance. It's a half mile or so to Torrance Blvd., which has shopping and residential areas. It was also undeveloped space; no houses had to be torn down to build it. At this time, I believe only one bus line runs down Crenshaw there, but the street is one of the most heavily traveled routes in the city for cars. The transit center is well along in construction, so if people actually use it as a park-and-ride and bus depot, it may improve public transit use in the near term-- assuming more frequent buses go there.
One of the things that does not make sense is that Redondo Beach is relocating their bus transit center from right next to the Galleria at Kingsdale and Artesia, to further south on Kingsdale, just north of 182nd. It could be great for Target shoppers, but everyone else will have a longer hike to get there. The idea is that it would be close to a future station of the C Line extension... if that runs on the railroad ROW. If the C line runs on Hawthorne, the new bus center is in a poor location.
I guess we could just say that building public transit infrastructure in L.A. is a nightmare.
Phenomenal video!
Any news on the what-seems-obvious-to-me-but-I-can't-any-news-about suggestion to extend the Norwalk/105/605 C Line terminus east to the Santa Fe Springs Metrolink station?
I thought I saw an internet record of a request for comments but I don't know what came of it beyond getting indefinitely shelved.
As far as I’m aware there’s not been any meaningful news. This is one of the last Measure M projects scheduled to be delivered (2052) and Metro is not looking at accelerating it currently, so I think it’s sort of out of sight out of mind until a few decades from now and they have to worry about it. Norwalk nimbys are not thrilled with the line so I think their attitude is to just let their successors deal with the headache later.
@@nandert Thanks! Interesting that's it's in the pipeline at all, albeit at the low end of the priority list.
Thank you for doing the video! funny and interesting!!
These videos are so great!!!
what's happening with the green line platform extensions?
Coo video please keep update on the EAST SF rail job.
BTW I worked at the Crenshaw project for over 6 years it was a very challenging job not easy there was a lot of redesign issues that push that job further out. Not to mention the community was not easy at all to work in. They did not like us there at all since the job started.
Yay you’re back!!!
$200 just to build a bridge on the Crenshaw line! That's insane!
Will you make a separate video about the arts district red/purple line station? It is a project I strongly advocate for.
Wow. I never new so many new lines were planned for Los Angeles! I only knew the main ones currently under construction.
I hope biden can 10x the federal funding
but I highly doubt much will change
yesssssss the metro og is back
The Crenshaw line could be link from el segundo to Azusa if metro decide to link the Crenshaw line with the expo line,blue line by sharing the tracks. What do you think about the idea?
Question about Crenshaw North, is that route mostly buried in a tunnel or are there at grade segments for some of the allignments?
I believe, though can't swear to, that current plans are for la brea and fairfax alignments to be totally underground (la brea had previously been partly elevated), and hybrid would be underground north of wilshire but the section south of wilshire on san vicente has both at-grade and underground options. As usual, everyone prefers underground, and it feels like metro is leaning that way were hybrid to be chosen. The La Brea+Spur option would be entirely underground.
@@nandert I see, thanks.
@@nandert Any chance an elevated option is possible?
@@jg-7780 I would be surprised unless the mood changes significantly. I think the only stretches that could accommodate elevated easily are along La Brea and the various portions of San Vicente. Part of Santa Monica too I guess, but that's never even been in the discussion. I think the big tell of where metro is leaning will come in september when they clarify what they'll be studying, in response to public comments.
Superb work. Subscribed.
I'm up there in age. I hope I live to see at least some of these projects completed.
LETS GOOO HE UPLOADED
2:03 Half a billion for just one crossing? That's insane. They are building the entire REM in Montreal for 7 billion. That's 67km of fully grade separated rails. It will be fully automated. That is something that LA should seriously consider. There is an upfront cost, but this is offset by the salaries that would be paid to drivers over the course of a decade or two.
The king returns!
No apprentice this year!
Glendale, feels like some kind of rail-free hole in the middle of everything.
Yeah!!!!!!!!
The asymptotes joke made me like the video bc of high school calculus trauma
Love your videos. Can we get a 2022 update? Please and thank you!
Yay ur back!
Here after riding the K-Line this passed weekend. 😅
You know what happened to what the CEO Phil something or other promised when they had the grand opening of the Gold Line extension, were there would be a brt or something that would start at CSULB and end at Duarte?
Huh I'm not familiar with that actually, I'll have to look into that. I've been hopeful for a Rosemead BRT that would essentially do that but I've never heard it officially referenced.
Fun fact: Line 266 used to run as far to CSULB in the early RTD days until mid-1990s. It would be interesting for Metro to return local service to CSULB. A BRT would make sense, however.
What music is it in 2:31 ?
It's all my music (except the arclight section), which I just make for fun and throw on soundcloud. That track is Firebrand. soundcloud.com/the-war-department/firebrand-instrumental-demo-version?in=the-war-department/sets/rogue-ep-instrumental-demos
7:14 the E line will cross the Metrolink line without a transfer station? Who came up with that bright idea? Transfer stations are the way you build a network!
Here is a clear way to fix these problems, once and for all:
In order to get Federal Funding, States must past legislation that prevents lawsuits in State Court or Federal Court over State/Local law for Federally backed projects. Furthermore, Federally backed projects must sign a binding (with no project construction changes allowed) contract with the construction company(s). This would basically mean that Federal NEPA laws govern projects with Federal funding and that once the project receives Federal funding local boards cannot request or order changes to the project.
Measure twice, cut once. Get it right the first time, before getting Federal funds, or lose out. Most of LA's major projects (if Sacramento went along) would be build years sooner and much cheaper - allowing more projects to be pushed up.
It's really strange how METRO either has no master plan or forgets everything they've already studied. As part of the Purple Line extension studies, they seriously considered a Purple line extension from Santa Monica running along the planned extension and then veering north at Wilshire/LaCienega up into WH with stations at Beverly Center, Santa Monica/San Vicente, then east on Santa Monica Blvd to stations at Fairfax and LaBrea before heading north along Highland to connect with the Red Line at Hollywood/Highland. This was a serious extension they already studied. The only reason it wasn't chosen is because they could only fund one option and chose the extension from Western to WLA but most of that extension can be used for the branch to WH. So, why do they pretend not to know anything? If this extension was a serious consideration once, why not use it and route the Crenshaw Line along LaBrea to avoid a seriously convoluted line through WH? Metro should have some idea whether that WH branch off of the Purple Line could ever be built. WH would be better served by the Purple Line branch than the Crenshaw Line and South LA residents would be better served by a LaBrea extension to Hollywood. It would get them to Hollywood and even the SFV faster plus, a transfer to the Purple Line at LaBrea to Downtown is an 8 minute ride versus the Expo's 20 min ride. The WH twisted route would force that transfer to be made at San Vicente vs LaBrea adding travel time to get to San Vicente and then head back east to Downtown.
Your videos have lots of information. However, can you minimize the sarcasm? It's challenging enough to digest the information w/o the sarcasm. Otherwise, I enjoy your program!
would love to see this for other cities
Wait? The Cinerama dome?
We saved that and forced they built arclight around it?
It’s a mad,mad,mad,mad,mad world
Though I like your two suggested alignments for Crenshaw North Extension, I don't see the two lines getting federal funding within 20-25 years of each other. From a Metro Rail equity and Sepulveda HRT priority perspective, other corridors will demand before funding of a second LRT line under Santa Monica Blvd-La Cienega south to Wilshire (and later to Culver City). My own guess is that WeHo should settle for the Fairfax Alignment and BRT down Santa Monica Blvd to both southbound on La Cienega to Culver City Metro Rail Station and westbound to Century City Metro Rail Station.
Great con job, county wide measure to increase sales tax to fund projects that fall mostly within the city of LA.
They should build like the Tokyo system for prestige!😀
Has anyone considered using Whitnall Highway in The San Fernando Valley as a busway? It would cross the tracks of the NoHo to Pasadena Extension. Some houses would have to be removed through immenant domain. But the area is mostly used for electrical towers and leased by gardening businesses. Much of it is clear from Burbank (@Chanler all the way to Sun Valley (@ Whitsett) From Whitsett it could run North in the Center of Whitsettt and continue to Roscoe Blvd (Future Dash Bus) cross Roscoe where Whitsett becomes Arleta Street continues to cross Osborne Blvd (future Dash) & Van Nuys (Future Valleyline) continues and becomes Devonshire. From this point It can continue to the West Valley on Devonshire to (Orang Line terminus/Amtrak). The amount of construction would be minimal because Whitnall Hwy is currently lightly occupied. Also the conjoined streets of [Whitsett/Arleta/Devonshire] are all wide streets that could accommodate a dedicated bus lane. Or the Orange can continue and connect as a loop.
Excellent video. I appreciate the effort that must go into these.
These are the questions I am pondering:
It would be interesting to know how much of the patronage on the open lines has come from buses, how much from cars and how much is "induced", by which I mean the extra capacity in the corridor is being utilised.
I don't have a sense of the share of journeys by public transport. My impression, from the other side of the Pacific, is that the freeway system is well over its design capacity and the possible for adding capacity is negligible or hugely expensive, thus the new Metro lines are the best way to add capacity. Maybe this is self evident but I've never seen a video giving a top down analysis.
Finally it would be good to know what standard the BRT is built to. The ITDP has a gold, silver and bronze standard. None of the LA BRTs seem to be at the gold standard. Is that right?
The Crenshaw/LAX Line isn’t going to Redondo Beach it’s going to Norwalk
You didn't say anything about the progress of the DTLA Streetcar. Have you heard anything?
What LA needs is great public transportation like subway system that connects to everywhere. Way more people from around the world would come and visit our city. I'm sick of our city catering to vehicles rather than people. That's why Angelinos share no common experience like New Yorkers because we're all trapped in our own cars.
WOOOOO
BYDDF great investment!
Hey I’m from the other side of the world, can I still send my suggestion?
Love your videos. Have you considered doing this for other cities?
Wow in 13 years we went from "Bling" to "Eat the Rich"........
in just 20 years a developing country like india has build a bigger metro network than any metro in whole Americas.
and here we are discussing will LA will be able to complete this in the next deadline.
someone should tell inglewood to raise their damn street or make it a tunnel. isnt that cheaper than raising rail?
probably. or option 3: level crossing because fuck inglewood
the biggest issue is they needed to do it from the beginning or not at all. keeping the rail line partially closed for a further 2ish years to prioritize a single intersection for cars after the expense of getting it all built is just insane.
Two other humourous transit channels are 铁事务所 and Elias Go
Great video! But as someone who used to live along the Crenshaw Line and look forward to it, I only look at this project with embarrassment and dread. It has been such a complete and utter shit show, with 0 transparency from Metro (Unless you know where to look), and 0 consequences to the contractor who is dragging their feet. Like IDK what is wrong with Metro in managing the project and how they differ to how the Gold Line and the Expo Line were constructed, but god damn
Well, The Gold Line Extension was done with some outside created board. I mean its a different governing body. That body was formed by the state in response to Metro's failure to get it going. Here's the website. foothillgoldline.org/construction_authori/construction-authority/ What should happen I believe in this Crenshaw Line drama is that the state takes the building authority from Metro make a board like this that pushes the contractors.
@@rachelmills5774 YES PLEASE. I got curious and looked it up, there was/is the Gold Line/Foot Hill Construction Authority and the Metro Expo Line Construction Authority. Even tho they had their issues, they at least got things done within reason, compared to this mess.
I hate how in America we have to contract our infrastructure building. In other countries those Government agencies have full-time construction crews that work for them and go from project to project.
Can we please have the PE Huntington Beach branch back? I’d so love to be able to drive 5 mins and then take a couple trains to LAX. Fuck the 405
Nah I think metro is trying to hurry up for the 2028 Olympics
The map you are using is misleading. Example the Santa Monica line compare to purple line extension is the same spacing from santa monica and LAX. Get a real map.
I love to see you use your mastermind brain to investigate Cincinnati’s abandoned subway system. And what you would do if you were hired to complete it. They literally abandoned an entire subway system and its still there. OH needs to be connected by light rail!!!!! Ugh.
2:38 this aged poorly