Titancub Member Username: Titancub
Post Number: 120 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:35 pm: | |
Interesting article on LA being able to impossibly seeming to put in a good transit system in a mere 7 years. Might rely on some of the LA contingent on here to provide insight on this... http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/opinion/chi-commute-la-ch icago_thinkjun22,0,5698629.sto ry |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 264 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:50 pm: | |
LA has crappy public transit. Yes, it has improved, but it still sucks. It's a metro of 18 million with one dinky subway line. There's also a couple of light rail lines and (of course) bus service. For the suburbs, there's a skeletal commuter rail network that has very spotty ridership and frequency and doesn't even run on weekends. Transit in Chicago is five times better; transit in NYC is 50 times better. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 2558 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 11:00 pm: | |
^Hey, they're way ahead of us. |
Crawford Member Username: Crawford
Post Number: 265 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 11:31 pm: | |
Indeed, they're way ahead of Detroit, but I sure as heck wouldn't say they have good transit, as if they were a European city or something. |
Pennst8 Member Username: Pennst8
Post Number: 15 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:18 am: | |
Metrolink service to certain suburban areas could use improvement, but I wouldn't go so far to call 388 miles of track 'skeletal'. BTW 4 out of the 7 lines run on Sat and Sunday |
Themax Member Username: Themax
Post Number: 890 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 7:30 am: | |
I haven't been in LA in over twenty years and then we sat in the world's biggest parking lot trying to get to downtown from Long Beach. I couldn't imagine what it would take to commute everyday. I think I'd just live at the office. Maybe since then, they've at least put in a lane for busses. |