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They've recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don't think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and
by bagacrap 9y ago
They've recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don't think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and the only thing limiting their willingness to drive is traffic itself. Thus, traffic will never get better than whatever the masses deem acceptably bad (and their tolerance seems ludicrously high in LA).
- pfranz 9y agoI think fully utilizing it will take at least 10 years of shops and infrastructure to grow up around it. I also don't think the 10 will improve, but I imagine the throughput for that area already has improved significantly. In the months leading up to the opening of the last section of the trains I knew people that had jobs already near train stops. A few had moved into apartments specifically to take advantage of the train. They talked about taking advantage of it on weekends, too. My wife had one of those jobs and we were looking at houses near the train line and could see the home prices increasing. While the weather is nice year round, she worked late hours and was concerned about walking to/from the train stop alone.