To the editor: Once I and others sued the MTA’s board of administrators three years in the past to cease or modify this challenge, we did so on behalf of greater than 3,000 Eagle Rock residents and companies who had signed petitions opposing it, petitions that had been submitted to and ignored by MTA (“A bus lane through Eagle Rock is slated to open before the Olympics. Will it hurt businesses?,” Sept. 9). In courtroom, we had been squashed like a bug. This time, Goliath received.
On the time, this BRT (Bus Speedy Transit) challenge was all about getting individuals from North Hollywood to Pasadena 20 minutes quicker. Different options, together with utilizing the parallel 210 Freeway, had been floated however put aside. Now all the sudden it’s concerning the 2028 Olympics, which was on no one’s radar display screen when the challenge was conceived. It stays a horrible plan for Eagle Rock and if or when accomplished will actually break up our group in half.
Now, maybe too late, it’s lastly getting the eye it has deserved all alongside.
Bob Warnock, Eagle Rock
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To the editor: My spouse and I purchased our home in Eagle Rock in late 1988. We had been drawn to the small-town really feel and lack of site visitors and parking issues. Little by little, the standard of life right here has eroded.
Parking rules had been tossed out the window a number of years in the past. Then a vocal, well-organized group of bicyclists acquired devoted bike lanes put in, obliterating one lane for auto site visitors. We now have two lanes for automobiles in every path, down from three.
I by no means see the bike lanes used in the course of the week, solely on weekends. The categorical bus lane is the newest nail within the coffin. We’re going to go down to 1 lane for automobiles.
A collection of public conferences had been held in 2021 and 2022, however these had been posturing. Metro ignored any enter that didn’t agree with what it has already determined to do in closed-door conferences.
I’m not in opposition to enhancements in public transportation, however let’s not do it on the expense of car drivers, who will all the time be the overwhelming majority. Spending billions of {dollars} to cut back the time it takes to get someplace on public transit from two occasions so long as it takes by automobile right down to 1.9 occasions as lengthy shouldn’t be going to extend ridership measurably. Many of the velocity good thing about the categorical bus comes from having fewer stops and synchronizing the site visitors lights with the bus.
The devoted bus lane makes the challenge outrageously costly, penalizes car drivers and offers a negligible velocity improve for the bus.
Dave Gustavson, Eagle Rock
