A Visual Breakdown Of LA's Measure M

A breakdown of the projects included in LA's Measure M ballot measure, along with the projects forthcoming from the existing Measure R ballot measure.
Link to my map: i.imgur.com/5zoi1Yo.jpg
Link to gif depicting the growth of the map (or, the tl;dw gif): i.imgur.com/JzYfRpG.gif
LA County online voter registration: www.lavote.net/home/voting-el...
Metro's Measure M website: theplan.metro.net
Link to construction timetable (near the end of the doc): theplan.metro.net/wp-content/u...

[@CowboyGaytor]

I literally just died inside, I'm studying civil engineering and want to work for the metro, and seeing this timeline gives me hope that I can work on those projects, ☺

[@hgr4255]

I wished I had continue my education pursuit in Civil Engineering 20 (Transportation). I didn't, I'm retired now so it doesn't matter. Would LOVE to have been involved in development and planning of mass transit based on a zillion plans I devised growing up since 10 years old. The pages could have filled an entire house.

[@KutWrite]

You'll die financially paying for this boondoggle.

[@davidmella1174]

@@KutWrite maintaining roads is more expensive than maintaining rails, plus traffic is going to get worse if we do nothing.

[@WilliamLopez-ek7gl]

​@@KutWriteWDYM boondoggle? LA's mass transit back in the 90's and 00's was absolutely abysmal and the tax measures to expand the network and make it decent will pay off tenfold

[@glennac]

@@CowboyGaytor So, did ya? That is, end up working for Metro?

[@JermaineSam]

It's definitely gonna cost A LOT of money but I'm tired of driving here. Hours in traffic, parking tickets, parking meters, street sweeping, parking, parking, parking! I'm giving my car away to a family member. LA can't continue to grow and continue to rely on cars too.

[@deezedayz]

That's exactly why I decided against moving to L.A. I was living in Atlanta and had job offers in both L.A. & [Washington] D.C. When I was there [in L.A.] for the interview, I had to deal with the chaos at LAX, then having to rent a car, then having to pay for parking at my hotel (which was like $48 a night), then having to sit in traffic for nearly 2 hours just to get from my LAX-area hotel to downtown, then having to pay $15 to park in a garage for approximately 2 hours because I was about to be late for the interview and didn't have time to spare for looking for a parking spot on the street, just to sit in traffic for another hour & a half on my way back to the hotel after the interview. I wanted to go to the beach during my visit, but after all of the driving, I was exhausted and only had enough time to prepare for my flight back east. My interview in D.C. was the complete opposite--I purchased a SmarTrip card (for $1), hopped on the train which dropped me off a block from my hotel (it only cost me $2.25 for the one-way trip), took the D.C. Circulator ($1) to my interview and back to my hotel, before taking the Metro back to the airport the next day (another $2.25) and flying home. It is safe to say that I chose the D.C. job simply because of the transit. I love L.A. and all, it is a beautiful city and I would love to live somewhere I could go to the beach on the weekends, but I just couldn't see myself having to deal with the traffic every day on my regular routine (which is part of the reason I left Atlanta).

[@allgoo1964]

Jermaine Sam says: "It's definitely gonna cost A LOT of money but I'm tired of driving here....." == kzbin.info/www/bejne/pl6saXp6oNGmhJY It didn't just happened to be that way. Someone who wanted to make money made it that way. We, as tax payers are paying a lot more money to make roads than making railways even if you don't drive. Gas tax and all other requirements hardly pay anything. Can you guess who made it that way? Are you surprised, it was automobile industry?

[@IntarwebUser]

@allgoo19: I prefer the story as depicted in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

[@allgoo1964]

IntarwebUser says: "I prefer the story as depicted in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" == It's not a matter of preference. It's a fact.

[@Hotters9060]

@gblueslover2 Do you remember when Los Angeles had a rail transit system called the Pacific Electric (Red Cars) and also the yellow cars?? This was long before freeways were built here in Los Angeles. Once freeways were built, they got rid of the original trains. That was a big mistake that Los Angeles made.

[@deelowCali]

Can you please do an update for 2019?

[@travelsofmunch1476]

Dee Low He just posted a update, check it out

[@deelowCali]

@@travelsofmunch1476 Thank u so much

[@anitrain]

I would love to see an update now that Measure M has passed and they're reshuffling some of the priorities.

[@Supreme56Animation]

G2I Media IT PASSED! 72% voted yes!

[@derptrolling4740]

2028 Olympics

[@KutWrite]

You'll receive your update in terms of new "regulations" and your tax bill. This propaganda piece will reappear when it's time to trick voters into paying even more... for less.

[@LosAngelist]

WooHoo it passed everyone!!

[@fernarias]

Lol in 2019.

[@KutWrite]

How wonderful. Now we get to see, as an answer to inept and corrupt government... more money taken for inept and corrupt government. "WooHoo" if your government salary just went up, you're a contractor or one of the few beneficiaries of a train to nowhere, or you just hate keeping money you earned.

[@commentorsilensor3734]

Saddest thing. I dont drive. This measure has nothing to do with public transportation. It makes non car drivers more miserable. I heard the radio. Real estate developers said this is freeway measure. This makes selfish train riders,aka car drivers, happy

[@GrijzePilion]

Is that Wall-E music you're playing?

[@bouo5998]

I caught it in the first ten seconds. Relieved to see I wasn't the only one.

[@glennac]

It sounds like Ocean’s Eleven soundtrack.

[@AuroraBoBora]

This was very well made, and unlike a lot of videos on public transit, well voiced!

[@chrispmorgan]

Nice job explaining something so complex. I hope you get paid for this kind of work.

[@KutWrite]

Oh boy, DO they get paid. Plus favored contractors to draft the propaganda and disseminate it. YOU paid for it, too.

[@scvbicyclecoalitionchapter193]

Thank you for this! Well done! Those of us who fought hard for the Walking and Biking component of Measure M would love to see similar overview treatment of the plans to expand the active transportation networks that will connect to these larger system.

[@magpie4224]

Awesome presentation. Thank you for putting it together with great visuals and charming voice over.

[@Supreme56Animation]

Good to see this coming together! BTW, they closed the Warner Center station on the Orange Line since it was on a one-stop stub served by alternate buses, and not on a dedicated busway.

[@derptrolling4740]

I hope that there is brt line towards Westlake village.

[@hgr4255]

Really? Warner Center closed. Do you know the 'through' ridership numbers to that terminus? Was that the issue?

[@saviorgrace4911]

Hi there, love the video. In fact this inspired me to due a college research paper on Measure M and I was wondering if I can use your image of the final map layout for the paper.

[@nandert]

Awesome! Go for it.

[@saviorgrace4911]

Thank you c:

[@MarsiaPowers]

Thank you for the vid. I hope I live long enough to see the Orange line become a rail. And I'm glad thy are going to letters instead of colors (Orange buses are grey. Huh?) I live in the SFV, Encino 4 blocks from the Orange Line. Back when the old Santa Fe rail line was going to be made light rail I lived in Tarzana, 1 block from the line. All along the rail line residents wanted light rail (heck most of us voted for a monorail run by a 3rd party which would give a portion to the City but the City blew it off). Because of a small yet vocal group of Orthodox Jews (I'm a Jew too so don't start throwing stones at me) who insisted a light rail would be dangerous on Sabbath and so pushed for a bus line, here we are today, spending more money to put what should have been built in the first place.

[@add1cc]

Marsia Powers huge problem and mistake in the first place when they made orange line a busway and not rail......

[@hgr4255]

That third party was the Alweg group, maker of the Disneyland monorail and the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair, their only non-domestic sales. Our city council blew it back in the early 60's. That monorail system, if measured by progress and ticket receipts, I'm sure would be a world class transit network with multiple city to valley routes, beach routes, anywhere they could get already established rights of way to avoid busting up existing infrastructure. The city REALLY blew it. I, too was in Tarzana during those days...just a tad further south near the 101.

[@hgr4255]

@@add1cc Actually, the bus line seems to work pretty well. It's ticket sales are paying the bills, it's pretty fast, few bottlenecks, and a very comfortable ride. Not as snazzy as lite rail or a monorail - it works.

[@roachtoasties]

The measure passed a while ago. Tell the MTA to start digging.

[@Geotpf]

The Crenshaw Line, Regional Connector, Gold Line extension into San Bernardino County, and Purple Line extension are all currently under construction. The bad news is the first three are all WAY far behind schedule.

[@bjdon99]

It's amazing that after decades of ignoring public transport, and insisting that the car is the only way to get around their sprawling city, that LA has now gone whole hog into it.

[@ChrisDePretis]

Great work -- love the graphics -- very excited about Measure M and I appreciate your optimism about dates by the end of the video. Subscribed.

[@gusolive5522]

There should be a dedicated airport line from Burbank Lax and John Wayne and a dedicated line from Union station to Ontario Airport watch traffic be cut by a quarter

[@Geotpf]

Both of those are outside LA County and would therefore have to be funded separately. There is some talk about extending the Pasadena part of what currently is the Gold Line as far as Ontario Airport, however. It is already scheduled to (eventually) cross the San Bernardino County line at Montclair with San Bernardino County funds.

[@joeyhollywood4640]

That was both informative and entertaining!! Great job!!!

[@MrJTBacon]

Great work!

[@MillCityJam]

Very nice explanation of Metro's plans.

[@brian_king]

So informative and hope-inducing. Thanks for making this.

[@AuroraBoBora]

I watch this video every so often, it's very well made and I'm very into public transportation

[@walterulasinksi7031]

There also seems to be an insanity regarding the proposal of a light rail line on Vermont . This street is one of the most heavily used thoroughfares in Los Angeles, and for the most part, is not wide enough to have a dedicated light rail line along with the local bus lines and normal commercial traffic not to mention private vehicle traffic. This is another location that requires subsurface heavy rail. Yet LAMetro still exhibits the Hubris to declare that only their way will work.

[@PASH3227]

I think it would work at the portion of Vermont with the wide median in the middle of the street (south of Gage). But North of Gage, where it gets narrower I'd agree that it should be an underground light rail or subway. Business and neighborhood interests along Vermont, especially Koreatown and USC, should be pushing for an acceleration of the Vermont BRT project AND possibly building a new subway on Vermont.

[@hgr4255]

Great job man. Wow. I'm a certified armchair urban transit planner and have been since I was a child. I even got a commendation letter from Mayor Sam Yorty back in the mid 60's for my redesign of the LAX airport loop, VERY VERY close to what it looks like today. No credit other than that commendation letter. You did an awesome job on that video and should be commended by Sam Yorty too .. or at least whomever is the current mayor? Garcetti's kid? OK. Anyway, you wanted us to point out some spelling errors, which you caught on one but missed PACOIMA up in the northeastern part of the San Fernando Valley. Minor error on an otherwise STELLAR production. I've retired and moved to the Philippines but sure miss L.A. transit plans. Living in Manhattan Beach most of my adult life, sure miss that place too. This was sent December 31, 2017 and I wish you and all your readers a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018.

[@cyborgsheep6077]

DUDE that baller intro music WALL.E was the best movie ever

[@ryko9975]

im stoked for the light-rail "under" the 101

[@ytterbium4909]

PRETTY FRICKIN EXCITED FOR DIS, AZUSA IS TO FAR FOR ME DAMN METRO, WHERE'D YOU FIND THIS

[@LuisMendoza-pp9qi]

This is a very good video!! Your investigative skills are top notch you should do more

[@CurtisAllenHager]

Digging the Newman score in the background. The Walle music gives this video a nice futuristic edge. On another note thanks for doing this. It's helping me justify my recent decision to sell my car!

[@wesleychin]

I never understood why they built green line and never connected to airport. these new lines should have been built in the early 90s not 2017 and beyond. the county really had poor leadership over the last 4 decades, now they want to raise sales tax again to rush these projects thru before 2057?!? the sales and gas tax is already really high!

[@chromebomb]

The Green Line never connected to LAX in the 90s because of politics. The Federal govt wanted to give Metro(RTD) $$$ for rail in the 70s but the public wouldn't vote to raise the taxes so they didn't pay up. Not until Prop A was approved in 1980 that rail could be built, and it faced a huge backlash due to construction disruptions, cost overruns and LA county people are scarred of non cars. Metro or LA county never had any money to build "these new lines in the 90s" let alone today. The only way to fund this stuff is thru a sales tax increase. I would argue that the sales tax is too high but the gas tax isn't because it hasn't been raised in 20+ years and doesn't even come close to paying for 1/2 the cost or maintaining the roads/highways. If the gas tax had been raised there might not be such a need for this new sales tax increase (measure M).

[@RappinPicard]

Well the cab drivers and shuttle bus operators didn’t want LARTD cutting into their game so they lobbied to keep the green line out of LAX. RTD in turn chose to route the line to serve the employees commuting to work at LAX as well as the aerospace industry that existed in the South Bay. It would have been a smartish choice too had it not been for the end of the Cold War while the line was under construction, which hit the South Bay area hard.

[@Supreme56Animation]

The Green Line could not connect due to opposition from taxi companies. That shouldn’t have derailed it, but then they withdrew it because it would’ve run by the end of the runway, and the overhead lines could’ve caused crashes, as well as the fact that they believed a connection to the industrial South Bay was more valuable than a connection LAX. There is a route running along the planned route now, for use by the Crenshaw/LAX Line, but it is a tunnel, not a bridge.

[@jameswoods9238]

Since the metro is changing from color names to letter names, it might be a good idea, (and it does look like that might be the case) to label the letters in the colors of the line being changed. Was it Redline now B but still labeled in Red?

[@chicken_dinher]

This was beautiful! Thank you!

[@frankiz2009]

Awesome editing work!

[@kevinmsft]

Driving to LAX during any holidays is the seventh circle of hell. 4th is too kind.

[@mattk.3645]

This video is great. I love its Ezra Klein style. And, I am so excited that Measure M passed this week.

[@gruweldaad]

Damn bro. Why you insult him like that just because he has a lisp?

[@transitnetwork3049]

What about the Vermont Red Line subway extension?

[@Cards8114]

About 3 Months ago, an Article was posted on TheSource (LA Metro News) that stated that metro wanted to extend the current subway tracks down Vermont ave to the I-105 and have the project be completed by 2067

[@hgr4255]

Can't wait ... umm, let's see ??? I'll only be 118 years old then. Can't wait.

[@ravensngata]

6:08 typo "Marine" Del Rey Great video. Liked the visuals

[@grantgreeley]

Thank you!

[@coastercrafter1productions300]

I talked to a Gold Line Employee and asked him about the light rail regional project and he said The gold Line will remain and be left alone but the northern part of the Gold Line will share along with blue line while the East LA portion of the gold line will share tracks with the expo line so the gold line is fed by blue/expo but not replaced

[@venkatbabu186]

Make parallel lines and interconnect them for shorter distance of commute from different points. Parallel lines give alternative paths.

[@dbtung]

Could you provide a link to the construction project timetables that you showed in the video?

[@nandert]

Sure. I put it in the video's description because youtube isn't letting me paste it in a comment.

[@lnerstudios1924]

well if this helps at all. i found a old P.E. corridor that goes all the way from Torrance to the blue line. still in tack rails and all.

[@democracyortrump]

Thanks for this informative video! Let's hope Measure M passes and all this and more gets built asap!

[@georgemitchel23]

can you update this for 2020?? this render was amazing

[@justinlevy7413]

Hey There! Im very interested and urban planning. With that said, I was wondering what program do you use to make your maps? and is there a free or cheap version of it?

[@nandert]

I used Photoshop for the maps (I probably should've used Illustrator, but I'm crap at vector graphics), After Effects for the animations, and Premiere for the editing. All are part of Adobe's creative suite, which are mostly on a subscription model now. I think if you want to get just one program it's semi-cheap, like 10 or 20 a month.

[@hgr4255]

@@nandert Yeah, too bad they went monthly. I still use my 2016 version and just don't accept the updates for fear they'll do something to my suite that I paid the big bucks for. Having it for as long as I have, I'm very adept at most of the entire suite, and agree that Illustrator might have done better, but you did awesome with PS, very awesome.

[@walterulasinksi7031]

It is easier to secure additional federal funding for heavy rail projects especially if those projects connect to alternative transit sites such as airports or public service sites such as hospitals,Etc.

[@albewillbuild]

This is such a beautiful presentation! I am hoping that San Diego can emulate L.A. and begin to build light rail projects simultaneously.

[@winweswright]

I wanna see your video of the LAX station

[@MarioGarcia-lw5ss]

I’m excited to move back to my native city Los Angeles and work as a Metro Rail Operator 🚇 🚋 🚈 🚊

[@hgr4255]

I returned from a trip to Singapore lately. You won't like it there, the rail transit is all automatic - and very efficient. It's kind of haunting to be whizzing through their tunnels at 45 MPH knowing there's no human operators, but it seems to work well. Me? I'm into the labor aspect , gotta provide jobs for people in these days of automation. Good luck in your career as an operator, but PLEASE - stay off the damn cel phone at work ;) ;)

[@martinishot]

That diagonal route seen at 3:22 looks like it follows the old right of way used long ago by the Pacific Electric system which also ran to Santa Ana. Down in Orange County they are actually doing their share too with plans to begin building a light rail running from the Amtrak/Metrolink station passing through downtown then passing through the spot where the old Pacific Electric train once ended. From there it will travel up the same right of way diagonal that LA has and unfortunately for now at least end at Harbor Blvd in Garden Grove. That leaves 13 1/2 miles of the right of way diagonal still to go to join what LA plans. Both sides better get on the same page and ensure their trains are conpatible to travel in each others system. And thanks to lithium batteries can't they build a train that can be off the wire for 4-5 miles? That would allow a train to continue from Santa Ana to Irvine or Orange.

[@danielleporter1829]

As an alumna of LMU, I support any future connectivity MTA plans for students to get and back to and from L.A.X/LMU, and Santa Monica

[@timothyfruhauf611]

i live in new york and what the hell is a rapid transit bus line

[@martinishot]

Fruhauf Productions a bus line with extremely limited stops and synchronized green lights so that it is never held up at intersections other than an actual stop.

[@IcelanderUSer]

I would be interested to see how these projects turned out today. What made it, what didn’t, and what changed. I know 7 years isn’t that long in transit time so perhaps in another 13 years you’d have a good comp.

[@PASH3227]

Well he recently made an exhaustive update video!

[@mrxman581]

A lot of it is happening. Though some a a bit delayed.

[@YungShark]

I love this video la needs this so badly

[@saadsalman9713]

6:00 as a future LMU student this excites me, but I feel like this definitely won't be done within the next four years. What's the timetable on this bus line?

[@nandert]

Unaccelerated, not until 2047... so not great, obviously. It's not in the 28 by 28 plan either, so pre-2028 is pretty unlikely under most scenarios.

[@saadsalman9713]

@@nandert Big ouch that's like my kids going to college kinda timeline

[@Ben-dh1kt]

well it will still be a very bad public transportation system for a 19M inhabitant city

[@hgr4255]

Give it time Ben .... we've had dopey city councilpersons with NO vision for L.A.'s future other than the iron machines we drive. Times have changed. It's 2020 now and I am just AWED by the progress LAMETRO has made thus far. Maybe, just maybe one day they'll clear their vision and go monorail. Monorail is a much smaller footprint, and with the new LEM's (Linear Electro-motors), they can battle the Sepulveda route and even slay the canyons of Laurel, Coldwater and Beverly Glen. Now wouldn't that be nice?

[@justsamoo3480]

Since when does LA have 19 million people. As far as I know, it has metro population of around 13 million similar to Paris.

[@turbojon8117]

@@justsamoo3480 The 19 million figure is the MSA -- LA, Orange, SB, and Riverside counties (maybe Ventura also). Very easy information to find.

[@ltmongoose1594]

Can we get a railline threw la habra and brea

[@adamglinder]

Amazing video! Always a fan of your work! Help spread the good word! :D

[@HaragothNAR]

Its Cali, I'm not very optimistic when it comes to completion dates.

[@maxbuskirk5302]

2:45 Metrolink's San Bernardino Line serves Pomona North, not Pomona (names are confusing). Amtrak does serve Pomona, but not Pomona North, which should be the station shown here. Just a small detail. I'm amazed at how professional this video looks. Though it would be fun to see the Southwest Chief use its original routing once again.

[@TheLAexplorer]

I'm still in my 20s and I take the 405 everyday to work. You're right, even then I might be dead by the time I get to enjoy the Sepulveda line :'(. I say we focus on the most heavily congested areas with full force and cut back on some of the lighter projects like Montclair. I mean they're not even L.A. and I've only been hearing bad things coming from San Bernardino in the news lately. Anyway, the end goal seems great! However I personally don't think it's practical to run so many construction projects simultaneously if you're saying that budget affects completion date. My recommendation is to focus first on Sepulveda, Hollywood to Westside and LAX. I drive around L.A. a lot and sometimes it takes me 30 minutes to drive a mile or two just to get onto the freeway in those areas.

[@sayrith]

Bro, it's 34 years until 2050. That would make you 54 by the time it gets built. I don't think you'll be dead by then.

[@HomoHabilisAlive]

The L.A. Explorer I think # 1 priority is to connect the Barrio to West LA.

[@thankfuliam3251]

Awesome information very informative wow amazing work thank you

[@tntmaster1104]

Can we just talk about how the music in the beginning of the video sounded like the music hear in the movie *Wall-E*

[@darryl211]

the gateway cities route was planned before they built the 105 freeway and the gold line. where the 105 goes through the north end of paramount there was a rail line already in place but the freeway was built in place of it without any future possibilities and now they have to get the okay rom the ports of Long Beach and L.A. to use the trackage

[@LucentLunarch]

Bellmont tunnel anywhere?

[@hgr4255]

Maybe the Belmont tunnel.

[@J_131]

3:10 it says "Stretching from the current Gold Line Station in the Valley" I believe that's the Orange Line, not the Gold Line. Great work on the video!

[@nandert]

Ack! There's one error, at least. Can't believe I didn't catch that. Thanks!

[@hgr4255]

@@nandert You made ONE error? Damn,there goes perfection., because your presentation was award winning. Get a job with Metro Media relations and make some digits.

[@donloeb6869]

great work man

[@danmickla]

Why is this restricted from playback on other sites by UMG?

[@nandert]

KZbin flagged the music I was using, unfortunately (Wall-E and Ocean's 11, as others have pointed out), which puts ads on it and restricts playback. I probably should've used something more obscure so it wouldn't get flagged.

[@danmickla]

nandert ah. sucks.

[@hgr4255]

@@nandert There's a better way.

[@brandonsterlingon6130]

Why no connection to Burbank Airport?!?!!?!?!?!?!

[@ytterbium4909]

Bro ya just need to take the Metrolink

[@ytterbium4909]

Just John Wayne will be left

[@Supreme56Animation]

Because Metrolink already services it at two stations. (yes, two)

[@PortlandsTransport]

Oh ya? What's the sales tax (forever) rate gonna be?

[@pinhead35]

It goes up $0.25 only

[@J-Bahn]

God I Love your arrested development jokes 3:21

[@johnhurley5646]

Great video!

[@roachtoasties]

I'm glad it passed, even though I may not be around to see it all completed. I was looking at the No on Measure M site. I guess they're not happy. The problem with their argument is doing nothing is not an option. It's not perfect (nothing is) but we must do something. We're already far behind when compared to many of the world's major cities and how they tackle transportation issues.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

It doesn't matter how great your city is if u dont have the right mass transit so its good L.A. is redoubling its efforts. it is a major world city and should have a world class metro.

[@ChristianVidauri]

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! AHHH!!!

[@asaadlewis328]

Whatever happened to that proposed Arts District stop? 😭😭😭

[@mrxman581]

That's still in the works. Last I heard, they have the funding for it.

[@marcinpuczyowski9759]

Ocean's 11 sound track :) Like it

[@arthurjauregui7492]

What an eye opener! L.A. is about to blowup with opportunity. SLIG wants to educate their investors not hide information from them and these videos are a great resource!

[@monica012077]

This looks so messy in 2020. How much of this has actually been built?

[@michaelmoses8745]

It's Cali. Without looking at it beyond this video, I suspect nothing. I will get back to you if I find out differently.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

Nothing has opened, but the K Line, Purple Line extension, Regional Connecter, and A Line to Pomona have all had Contracts awarded, but the A Line hasn't started yet. Contracts for the South Bay extension and that line to OC will get awarded soon. 2 P3 proposals have been selected, along with an Metro alternative, for the Speuvlda Line

[@deezynar]

Did the voters approve that measure?

[@peskypigeonx]

Yeah, another comment said it passed at around 70%

[@deezynar]

@@peskypigeonx Thanks.

[@SoapinTrucker]

This made my head swim! What ever happened to RTD and a bicycle? 😂

[@hgr4255]

They went the way of the horse and wagon. Time marches on.

[@chromebomb]

Didnt hear much about LA County's 2nd largest city, Long Beach?

[@PASH3227]

chromebomb I agree. Raise the blue line above Street level, and remove the station on 1st and LBB. Add BRT from CSULB to LAX (VIA PCH). Add a BRT line along Cherry or Lakewood to connect LGB to east LA.

[@hgr4255]

@@PASH3227 Brilliant !

[@danmickla]

"La Cienaga"?

[@robotskirts]

Nice work. I'd vote 405 to be first circle: limbo and LAX to be ninth circle: treachery.

[@dariusduesentrieb]

Why am I even watching this?

[@JuanGarcia-fi8ud]

i will be here

[@Amidat]

My guess is maybe half of this gets done within that time.

[@hgr4255]

Well, judging by the current forward thinking administrators - I disagree. We're moving at an amazing pace here in 2020. Rome was not built in a day.

[@alvaroprieto2092]

yes but have they just considered going faster

[@mrxman581]

In some cases, yes. But much depends on additional federal funding. LA Metro got almost $1 billion in federal funding for construction of the SFV LRT line and to help finish the D subway line before the 2028 Olympics. In another case, they divided the project into two phases instead of the original single phase. That way they can build the majority of the line, and build the 2nd phase when they have additional funds. So it's faster, but you might not get the whole enchilada.

[@themovietheatre]

It was approved.

[@SRBrown-vn4sw]

Mass transit needs to be subsidized Where are the tolls be put ? the 405? Or another fuel tax? The bridge tolls in NYC fund the subway there . How will L.A. maintain it?

[@derptrolling4740]

You forgot the LA Olympics in 2028

[@census3370]

If only the p2020 cab cars will be there to ride those rails once! Also, the Santa Ana west branch should be tweaked

[@xcelron1580]

We'll all be old by the time this becomes a reality, but at least future generations will have more travel options.

[@hgr4255]

I was young when I rode the old electric railway from North Hollywood to Hollywood and downtown. They closed it down, tore up the rails .... today you can still see the flat mark on my forehead from hitting it so hard at their stupidity.

[@sisigpapi]

3:10 Orange Line, not Gold Line

[@hugglescake]

In New Jersey, it's pronounced arange.

[@jayvichez6595]

Nice

[@KutWrite]

Also not pictured: 1. Political influences on the routes, schedule, contractor selection and key employee selection. 2. Government ineptitude in all it does. 3. Corruption rerouting funds to ??? 4. State and federal mandates rerouting funds to ??? 5. Usual cost overruns doubling or tripling the cost to taxpayers. 6. Interest and fees " " " " " " " ... that is the #5 cost, not the originally predicted cost. 7. Usual rescheduling doubling or tripling the time required to complete.. Parts will never be completed. Moral: Let private industry sell bonds and construct the > best < methods of transport for each type of travel. "Best" = selected by market demand and bought with funds obtained through cooperative, not extorted means (taxation).

[@hgr4255]

Haha, true. But I don't have to see a bird fly knowing that they do.

[@KutWrite]

@@hgr4255 Exactly. My point was more aimed at the "commission" hiding those facts. There's a reason they call it the "commission" of a crime!

[@drewistheone1]

Proof! All new projects only in L A City. All L A County Freeways get no help with Light Rail. Total gridlock for all of L A County Freeway outer areas.

[@gruweldaad]

Beverly Hills is its own city. Torrance is its own city. Redondo Beach is its own city. Inglewood is its own city. Whittier is its own city. West Hollywood is its own city. Pasadena is its own city. Glendale is its own city. Burbank is its own city. Claremont is its own city. And Montclair isn't even in L.A. County but it's also its own city.

[@sgtdebones]

That "V" line should terminate at the Harbor Gateway Transit Center

[@glennac]

So, expectations by 2024 & 2025. Well, we’re here now. What ended up happening? 🤔😅

[@mrxman581]

A lot he showed is happening. In some cases, a little late, but they're happening.