City Beat Takes on Traffic

City Beat has a feature story in what the claim is going to be an ongoing series about the best ways to get LA moving again. You can view the article here

More writing about the article can be found at Metro Rider LA

A lot of ideas were thrown around in the article including bringing up the battle with the expo line, henry waxman derailing the wilshire red line extension and converting those busy west side streets into one-ways. Overall the article seemed like sloppy reporting with not nearly enough questions asked. I think they are trying to do good but tackled far too many topics in a two page article to give anyone more than a glimpse at the LA transit stalemate.

As much as people don't want to hear it - LA needs to become less car friendly if a rail system is to work. It needs to be easier for people to get out of their cars and hop on the train or bus. If that means making it harder to drive in the city then someone needs to take the lead and make the hard decisions. raise the gas tax, build buildings without parking, charge for highways.