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Serious question - is this what is driving the construction of transit in LA?
by outside1234 8y ago
Serious question - is this what is driving the construction of transit in LA?
- mixmastamyk 8y agoPartially, but probably not the main driver. The city is getting more dense, despite the work of NIMBYs. There are some LA Metro improvements being done but they were planned and tax introduced before the Olympic win, I believe.
- jcranmer 8y agoThe advantage of the Olympics is that it helps to steamroll over NIMBY objection and ensure that politicians are actually willing to commit funding to transit projects.
- gamblor956 8y agoPartially, yes. This is the drive behind the "28 by 28" initiative at LA Metro, where the goal is to complete 28 pre-planned projects before the games. (The original plan, sans Olympics, was to complete about 5-6 of them.) These projects include the Subway to UCLA, the LAX People Mover and Metro connector, the "Regional Connector" downtown, the extension of the Gold Line in the San Gabriel Valley, hundreds of miles of bike lanes, and various freeway upgrades. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eight_by_%2728 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eight_by_%2728)
- zanny 8y agoI'd hope a metro area of 13 million people could drive transit construction in the 21st century in the general case, but cities all over the US continue to impress on their total failure to do so.