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This is not a story of NIMBYs, this is a story of how LA can't make decisions for the greater good because anything that affects a useful part of the metro area
by blaisio 8y ago
This is not a story of NIMBYs, this is a story of how LA can't make decisions for the greater good because anything that affects a useful part of the metro area requires independent agreement from multiple cities with very different demographics. A lot of people don't realize that, unlike NYC, LA isn't one city - it's a bunch of cities clustered together. Right now, there's no good way to force all the communities to agree on something.
Some communities might have a NIMBY attitude, but just saying that this is California NIMBYism is oversimplifying.
- zjaffee 8y agoExcept for the fact that this tunnel was trying to get developed in a way that first off, violated California Environmental laws, something that the government owned and built metro would have to spend millions of dollars and several years on in order to complete, and second, it would've increased the complexity of building an already budgeted heavy rail line under that part of the city. LA is very capable at making decision that work for the greater good as the county has a sizable amount of power around taxation, and manages the regions transit authority. The parts of the region most notable for NIMBYism are largely only effective at delaying action rather than completely blocking it unlike in the bay area which has multiple counties to deal with.
- gamblor956 8y agoLA's cities and peoples just agreed to spend several billion dollars on building/improving mass transit in the city...And we just voted to support those efforts again in this past election. LA's cities actually work very well together on many infrastructure projects; it's the valley portions of LA (San Gabriel and San Fernando) that don't cooperate well with others.