The article mentions the issue of local alternatives, but here is an example of a half dozen "alternatives" to show how truly ridiculous this is: https://www.d

The article mentions the issue of local alternatives, but here is an example of a half dozen "alternatives" to show how truly ridiculous this is: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0byerml83ks8dvy/AAAOVqg4is6ytUG76WLPM-t-a/Maps?dl=0&subfolder_nav_tracking=1 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0byerml83ks8dvy/AAAOVqg4is6ytUG76... The sepulveda transit project will be an underground heavy rail project at the end of the day, unless the metro board is truly corrupt that is, but you have these homeowner groups who must be appeased (1), a monorail company that wants to use the transit construction opportunity to steal from the public purse by offering an objectively worse technology that the public will be saddled with forever (2), and despite all of this 93% of the actual public wants the underground heavy rail anyhow which offers the fastest end to end time (3). Despite this, LA metro is spending labor and time to come up with and market these alternatives that are complete farces—3 of which are monorail based which serve as appeasement to above groups. Now imagine how much more efficient this could be if they could just build what any engineer would select as the best option (the fastest end to end option), and not have to do six times the planning to appease certain groups anytime they planned to do anything at all? Metro can't even paint a bus lane without this massive community engagement process that only serves to hamstring transit from being most optimal for commuters, to the least likely to piss off car drivers or busybodys looking out their window (4). Oh and this one single bus route was funded by the taxpayer 6 years ago and ground was supposed to be broken 2 years ago. Considering the route was planned even before taxpayer funding was approved, its been probably a decade at least of squawking and politicking and not a drop of paint has been put to the road surface yet. 1. https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/02/07/homeowner-groups-metro-sepulveda-rail-will-destroy-neighborhoods/ https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/02/07/homeowner-groups-metro... 2. https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/03/15/ten-reasons-to-ditch-the-sepulveda-monorail-proposal-now/ https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/03/15/ten-reasons-to-ditch-t... 3. https://www.dailynews.com/2022/06/20/public-says-93-favor-rail-tunnels-not-an-overhead-monorail-for-mega-sepulveda-pass-project/ https://www.dailynews.com/2022/06/20/public-says-93-favor-ra... 4. https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/metro-board-approves-bus-rapid-transit-through-north-hollywood-burbank-glendale-eagle-rock-and-pasadena/ https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/metro-board-approves-b...