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Why would the Centinela Ave grade separation cost a billion dollars and take two yeras to build? (I hope you're exagerating). Here in Victoria, Australia, I expect it would cost about $200m and could be build with a 1-month line closure. For example in 2007 a rail line was closed on 1 January and reopened 29 January, during which time the track was lowered 6 metres, a new road bridge built over the tracks, a new station built and the line re-electrified.
your tax dollars wasted.. er, i mean "at work"
Commenting to help this video in the algorithm. As a new yorker, Im always cheering for other american cities to expand their public transit even if the process is a slow and painful one!
Couldn’t we just put a rail along the 405, 710, 605, and the 5 and have a majority of problems solved
HAHAHA the Elon Musk tunnel is so stupid.
This is a really cool video update of the MTA projects!! I was really interested in the expansion years ago. It was fun to ride and see different parts of the city by train. Then it became to dangerous as people became to aggressive!! I see the Torrance extension is predicted for completion in 2031. They already built the transit center that sites in the middle of no where with nothing connected to it. it was just seem to rot for the next 8 years. What a shame!!!
Me just counting the days into 2023 that the regional connector is not out
As an european viewer i can say you have some serious misunderstandings about Streetcars. This is mostly because North American streetcars in contrast to european Trams run in mixed traffic in your citys. In europe they often (not allways) run on dedicated tracks for which mostly Parking or a second lane is removed.
In my hometown nearly all tracks are seperated (the outlier is a Single intersection where a single Left turn in on the track) . This is not Standard but improves travel time and reliability. Also there are often intersections removed to reduce points of conflict with cars.
By the way reducing the car amenities in favor of Transit brings a decrease in car ridership which helps Transit to get going more generally.
The LA Metro stinks and a lot of homeless people like NYC.
Great coverage. On the bright side, the more our society reinvests in mass transit, the higher the cultural opinion of it will become, making it gradually easier to accelerate funding and timelines, in addition to approving new projects.
I was really hoping to make it from Whittier to LA union, but now I gotta wait til 2035.
LA's so frustrating lmao
Are you going to mention the fact that the red express bus system was dismantled this year and metro cut a SHIT TON of crucial busses. For example, there is no longer a direct route to Union Stateion for people who live along Sunset Blvd because they cut the 704. Also there is no longer a bus that runs from UCLA to downtown because the 2 now veers 90 degrees to the South-West along Alvarado to try and replace the other line they cut…. the crucial and heavily used 200 bus connecting the McArthur Park station with Echo Park. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. That means that the strip of Sunset between Alvarado and downtown (that serves Dodger's Stadium as well as the giant VAPA High School and two elementary/Jr High Schools just off Sunset and Echo Park Ave.) has a fraction of the frequency it used to because there is now only one bus line running there, the 4. Loving your videos but I wish you'd talk about the shitty direction Metro bus system is heading in the meantime.
I agree about the redundancy with the silverline along the 10 freeway. Why doesn't the stupid silverline bus have more pinche stops?….. like the entire city of Alhambra is just ignored even though there's a hugely popular Atlantic mall literally sits ON the 10 freeway!
this video may be a little old at the moment but the NIMBYism in la will always be timeless 😮💨
Full Fascism? You people are like the red scare folks who thought 'Full Communism' was just around the corner… Stop falling for divisive political propaganda and fear mongering…
Please do a 2023 update!!
if you could talk to the king and get his blessing you could this done with his slave labors
The commitment, faith, hope, tenacity and patience of Americans in general and Angelinos (transit supporters) in particular is really commendable and admirable !
Seen from Europe it really seems like a lost cause…
Between the crazy inflated costs, extremely slow planning, utterly complicated funding, decades long building, dubious choices and Olympic level NIMBYism… I'd be long fallen into depression and madness, strapped in a straitjacket, screaming and banging my head against the wall between loops of stereotypic body rocking movements.
Really, I admire your patience and faith in supporting and waiting for public transportation in LA (or other US cities).
I'm not being sarcastic, I'm truly saddened and rooting for you here.
How come a world city like LA is so poorly equipped with transit? It is unbelievable and unacceptable !
I know it's a hen vs egg question but that surely doesn't help with low density urban sprawl and car dependency / addiction.
Current new developments are definitely a step in the right direction but they feel way overpriced, undersized and underwhelming.
Why using LRT ? With short 2-3 car trains ? That's a weird choice for 15-25 mile long structuring lines to say the least. And 6 minute headway on peak hours? Come on!
11 years for the Regional Connector bit ? 🤯
How is that future proof ?
Some European cities are not that much better equipped (looking at you Marseille) but many more are crisscrossed by miles and miles and miles of modern, high capacity, often high frequency and great public transportation systems.
Some modest size cities (pop. 100K-300K) have extremely efficient, mostly underground metro networks : Rennes, France (2 lines over 15 miles, 28 stations, 65 to 90 seconds headway on VAL & CityVAL systems) ; Lausanne, Switzerland (2 lines) ; Bilbao, Spain (30+ miles over 2 main lines, a 3rd small one and 48 stations) ; Karlsruhe, Germany…
Dozens and dozens of cities have dense tram networks, each covering most of their town's turf with sleek and comfy trains running on dedicated lanes, often "green paths", etc.
The big players, Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin or Milan are transit heavens.
Several of them invest big in eye watering expansions of their already extensive and dense networks :
Paris' humongous Grand Paris Express expansion project, currently being built, doubles the length of the metro network with 4 new fully automated driverless lines (including a 75km long ring line entirely deep underground circling the core) and several extensions, 90% of which is underground.
Combined with many other simultaneously developed projects like RER line E West extension (region wide express metro with long underground central section) ; Cable line C1, a public transportation gondola line serving an isolated corridor, a handful of real busway BRT lines, new and extended tram lines… that's 360 kilometers of new mass transit lines between now and 2030.
London and its recently opened Crossrail, a.k.a the Elizabeth line (London's version of Paris RER line A).
An East-West express heavy metro line linking 30 stations and repurposed and renovated suburban lines together by a 13 mile long newly built central twin tunnel under the core of London and adding 10 huge new underground stations.
Barcelona and it's new large express "double" metro line L9/L10, already partially opened.
A 30 mile long, 52 stations, somehow tangential automated driverless line with branches and a pioneering "single bore" system putting stations inside the very deep tunnel bore and tracks stacked on 2 levels, one for each direction.
These cities' officials take their mass transit systems very seriously, it's their arterial systems, allowing their streets to breathe.
Angelinos, living in a world city, deserve a world-class transportation system ! The massive traffic jams suck the life out of them, they need and deserve better from the transportation agency.
If only the authorities put as much funding, foresight and willpower into mass transit as they do on freeways, or better, instead of freeways… it would be a game changer !
I'm baffled by the low ridership of LA Metro rail : 175K on weekdays in 2022, whereas Rennes, the French city I mentioned with a population of roughly 225K city proper / 365K metro area, managed to move 225K+ passengers on its metro network on workdays in 2022…
And I'm pretty sure a lot more people would like to use public transit in LA but given the numbers, it's either very impractical or undersized and saturated, or probably both.
Invest, invest, invest! I'm rooting for you Angelinos.
West Santa Ana Branch isn't going to be finished until MAYBE 2041??? I got excited for nothing lol
I am now couting the days till the 2023 update video
Im bored lol and i love these videos.
Waiting for that 2023 update. Regional connector finally done!!!
Does BRT rely on BYD equipment?
A long video, but SOOO much info and effort put into it. Thank you so much! 👍
Please give an update at the end of 2023, your videos are so well produced.
13:42 But why can't streetcars be a real transit solution, after all trams are common in other countries
Potty mouth, baseless information, wordy, forgettable.