Nobody is disputing population density within Los Angeles County. I worked in the Mid-Wilshire area,

The Metropolitan Transit Authority board of directors voted Thursday to move forward with a ballot initiative to extend Measure R--the half-cent sales tax that funds Los Angeles transit projects--without providing any funding disney entertainment cruise ship jobs for the Gold Line Foothill Extension to Claremont, according to a Gold Line official.
Calling disney entertainment cruise ship jobs the decision "contrary to law," Gold Line Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian said in an email Thursday that Metro is not abiding by the original terms of Measure R by leaving Gold Line funding out.
"The many who have advocated on the projects' behalf stressed that Metro is not meeting the 2008 voter mandate; a congressional letter read during the (Metro) meeting called attention specifically to provisions disney entertainment cruise ship jobs of the enabling legislation which 'delineated the Gold Line Foothill Extension as terminating in Claremont,'" Balian wrote. "Unfortunately, contrary to law,  the board did not amend the expenditure plan to include the project to Claremont."
The ballot initiative was passed by Metro's board in a 10-3 vote, with Supervisor Mike Antonovich as one of the dissenters. Before it goes on the November ballot, a state bill must be passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown and Metro's resolution must be approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
"...Villaraigosa said after the vote that the extension proposal disney entertainment cruise ship jobs was backed by a wide coalition who viewed disney entertainment cruise ship jobs an expanded transit system as a way to make Los Angeles County look and function better while creating jobs in the process," the blog reported.
Are we surprised that the LA City dominated Metro did this? Do they even know what a Claremont is? Villaragosa and his smarmy cohorts disney entertainment cruise ship jobs have hijacked the funding for light rail so elite westsiders' nannies can get to work. That's their sole motivation. Do you really think any of them will ride it? Nah, public transit is for poor people and they cannot stand to rub shoulders with them. They might catch Poverty through body contact. As it stands, there is only the Gold Line that allows any of us on the wrong side of town to get to LA.
Where is the density in Los Angeles County? Does a single bus line in the SGV carry half of the riders on the 720 Rapid through the Wilshire Corridor? This is about serving the area with the most transit needs and that's Los Angeles city, which has the density to support such an expansion.
You got the part about the nannies right but you forgot disney entertainment cruise ship jobs to mention the housekeepers and other household help all of whom now regularly fill the buses bound for the West Side in the morning going to work and in the evening going home.
This is just the continuation of their politicians besting ours. Los Angeles gets rid of the dirty nasty rail yard and will turn it into a park for Angelinos. The San Gariel Valley folks pay more in taxes to help them do it and Monrovia gets that dirty nasty rail yard to handle all of the traffic. Until we get our politicians to stand up to theirs disney entertainment cruise ship jobs this will continue.
Monrovia is getting a rail line because it's needed for the Gold Line extension disney entertainment cruise ship jobs to Asuza. The SGV knew this, it's not a surprise. LA has railyards in downtown LA, Lincoln Heights and South LA. Two more are being built in next 5 years in Westchester and Santa Monica. Your implying Monrovia got a rail yard with no benefit, sorry it got the Gold Line. So is Westchester, Downtown LA, Santa Monica, South LA, Lincoln Heights, etc... suffering as well? No, because they received a benefit at the same time.
I read in the Los Angeles Times this morning that the MTA board has voted to place a Measure R tax extension on November's ballot. My proposal: Let's get the area citizenry and politicians mobilitzed to vote against this initiative. As you will recall from the first Measure disney entertainment cruise ship jobs R campaign, lots of money was spent for televison spots to pitch the tax to county voters. The tax was framed as a funding mechanism for regional mass transit. We won't outspend Los Angeles interests but they need our vote, and residents in Los Angeles aren't going to be receptive to our message anyway. We should develop disney entertainment cruise ship jobs direct mail campaigns and outreach programs, all directed to San Gabriel Valley residents, educating them on the duplicity of MTA's intentions. disney entertainment cruise ship jobs The first Measure R initiative was approved by the slimmest of margins, made possible by votes from the San Gabriel Valley. This time around, let's be smarter and organize NOW. I have a marketing background and will be happy to help in this effort.
It's funny how the Tony V./Zev Yaroslavki crowd come to the voters, hat in hand, when they want money for regional projects but take the new-found wealth to finance all their city projects. Let's laundry list them: Wilshire subway, downtown connector, Expo Line (phase disney entertainment cruise ship jobs one completed and 33% over budget, phase two under construction), Crenshaw connector. And this doesn't include the small stuff like finishing disney entertainment cruise ship jobs the Green Line route to LAX.
Measure R was passed at 68% and each SGV city voted in majority support of the tax hike. Maybe some taxes are good? Yes, we're opening an Orange Line this weekend (first full transit project under Measure R). Expo Phase II and Gold Line to Asuza is only under construction today because of Measure R. Without Measure R, you'd think LA would be better and you'd be more rich with an extra $25 in your pocket per annum? Yes, the .5% tax hike only cost you $25/year. Do the research.
Three freeways disney entertainment cruise ship jobs (210, 10 and 60) cross the SGV carrying tens of thousands of vehicles each week, connecting all the worker bees in eastern LA County/western IE to their jobs. On any clear, calm weekday morning you can head up into the foothills and, looking across the valley toward the Puente Hills, see 3 ribbons of brownish, mucky air that denote disney entertainment cruise ship jobs the locations of these freeways. To the negative effects of these 3, you can add the trip-miles of the commuters on the 605 and the 57. How can there be any valid argument against the extension of the Gold Line?
LAofAnaheim, the extension to Azusa needs no new rail yard, the current one works just fine, the only problem is that the powers to be in Los Angeles would not vote to the extension without getting rid of the rail yard. The current Gold Line is being served by the current disney entertainment cruise ship jobs rail yard. Are you saying that to take to line from Pasadena to Azusa needs a whole new yeard, of course not. The San Gabriel Valley continues to get the shaft because we allow it to happen. If the new tax only costs $25 per year, do we get $25 worth of service? No, we will get $10 worth of transit, Los Angeles will get $40, do the math, this is a looser.
That makes no sense. How did you get $10 for SGV and $40 for LA? Also, what does LA get with Measure R? The Purple Line subway extension, I-405 transit line and the regional connector (may I add a regional connector that has extreme support from SGV politicians, which is actually in the city of LA). What else did LA get? Let's see what the SGV got. $735M for Asuza Gold Line extension, $700 million for the I-710 extension, disney entertainment cruise ship jobs Metrolink capital returns (LA outside of Union Station has no Metrolink), Los Angeles has 4,000,000 residents and is truly the urban center of LA County.
Nobody is disputing population density within Los Angeles County. I worked in the Mid-Wilshire area, as well as the West San Fernanco Valley. I know what the traffic problems are like. What I am disputing, and apparently didn't make clear, is that Measure R was sold as a funding mechanism for regional needs. In reality, the vast majority of money is being spent in Los Angeles. What I'm talking about here is fairness and proportionality. The San Gabriel Valley disney entertainment cruise ship jobs has over one million residents and the Gold Line now serves about 30,000 disney entertainment cruise ship jobs riders per day. The $25 per annum isn't the issue. The real issue is that the city of Los Angeles wants a comprehensive rail system and really doesn't care about a regional disney entertainment cruise ship jobs approach disney entertainment cruise ship jobs until it comes time to seek money from the taxpayer. Does Los Angeles need more mass transit? Absolutely. But should it arrogantly take ALL the money and throw a crumb here and there, like the Orange Line bus route, to the other areas of the metropolitan region? No.
Extending the Gold Line out to Claremont, and ideally disney entertainment cruise ship jobs to Ontario airport, would be the first step to regionalism. In addition, connecting the Red Line to Bob Hope airport disney entertainment cruise ship jobs and the Green Line to LAX would be the next steps. With those transportation centers connected to Union Station you have the basis to fill in for the genesis of something regional.
Read into the Robbins Bill in the SFV. They screwed themselves out of rail, don't blame Los Angeles. The Valley wanted a subway and no light rail. Their density didn't deserve a subway so they got left with a busway. It was the Robbins bill passed in the 1970s that prevented light rail being built in a certain region in the SFV. That's not Metro's fault.
THAN YOU DARYL HONS!!!! LAofAnaheim is having a hard time sharing. We do not want to take away from the needs of Los Angeles but we also do not want to be excluded. The Gold Line, Foothill Extension to Montclair was on the original proposal and we in the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys want the promises that were made to us kept. We have worked hard to support measures disney entertainment cruise ship jobs that would clean our air and cut our dependence on cars and foreign oil. We ALL live in LA county!
And just what rail yard are they getting rid of? Tom, rail yards for electric transit trains are not dirty and smelly , they don't have great sooty steam engines any more. Have you visited a modern facility recently? If you are referring to the old Corn Field Yard in downtown, that was abandoned by the SP decades ago as unneeded for operations. The one in Monrovia will have to pass environmental laws that weren't in existence when most of LA's yards were built. In addition, the Gold Line Authority took over from Metro to build our line in a more efficient, cost effective way. This is what comes of letting politicians run things that they shouldn't run