To the editor: Whereas it’s nice that Los Angeles is lastly planning for mild rail strains, elevated rail strains alongside probably the most congested corridors are the quickest and most cost-effective methods to deal with a variety of issues (“This rail line would get you to the Grove, the Beverly Center and Cedars-Sinai. Is it L.A.’s ‘missing link’?,” March 24). The Okay Line extension with a projected accomplished date of 2047 or later does nothing to deal with the fast transportation and housing crises we face.
An elevated Okay Line might be carried out in an inexpensive time-frame, not 20 years. An elevated rail line alongside Route 66, from Glendale to West Los Angeles, would take many vehicles off the highway and allow constructing of extra residential models with out inflicting insufferable congestion.
Cities like Bangkok and Chicago have elevated strains that carry hundreds of individuals day by day by the densest areas. Constructing housing with out transportation will trigger as many issues because it solves. Let’s put within the transportation infrastructure rapidly to permit a greater, extra livable, Los Angeles for all.
Harlan Levinson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: West Hollywood is presently going through a “excellent storm” that threatens its 1984 founding principles of housing fairness for seniors, the disabled, low-income residents and the LGBTQ+ group. Senate Bill 79 will override town’s legal guidelines so builders received’t should construct parking for a lot of new developments on this 1.9-square-mile metropolis. This improvement fever is actively demolishing current rent-stabilized properties and changing them with multi-story luxurious initiatives typically on single-family zoned parcels — all with no parking.
By the point the prepare lastly arrives (2047? 2050?), we can have irreparably destroyed our reasonably priced housing to profit builders. We’re prioritizing “transit-oriented” density for a transit system that doesn’t but exist, leaving anybody however the wealthiest with nowhere to stay and nowhere to park.
This shift ignores a stark actuality: Measure M funding for the Okay Line growth received’t even be obtainable until 2041. The place is West Hollywood going to get $112,000 per resident to pay its 25% share of the $15.9-billion construction bill?
Carolyn Campbell, West Hollywood
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To the editor: I feel the Okay Line extension is an efficient step in the suitable path. However extra must be carried out to make it a viable different to driving a automobile.
It wants police on each prepare and station platform ensuring individuals obey the rules; no loud music, no open drinks on trains. I don’t know what number of instances I bought on the Blue Line and located somebody had spilled soda pop throughout a couple of seats.
A dynamic mass transit community wants to draw extra than simply the low-income. Driving the Metro must be much less annoying to draw a extra numerous clientele. Have a look at locations like New York Metropolis and Tokyo, the place executives in enterprise fits routinely trip the subway to work.
Murray Zichlinsky, Lengthy Seashore
