La Metro Blue Line Express ideas plus improving service with blue &expo lines at pico/washington

[BreeddekalbL]

For our members from Los Angeles 

http://thesource.metro.net/2017/07/27/preview-of-this-thursdays-metro-board-of-directors-meeting/

 

talks about implimenting express service on the blue line and fixing the switch between the blue and expo at pico for now it recommends TSP before fixing the switch at washington

https://boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2017-0407/

blue line express mentioned in legislation

http://metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachments/bce187d4-ff26-44b6-b285-334e6b65c660.pdf

 

diagrams for improving the conflict point at pico/washington

http://metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachments/d13b1f84-9bf4-41ea-963f-3e680ae9b97d.pdf

[Kamen Rider]

...Did they not think this through when they built they Expo line..?

[BreeddekalbL]

...Did they not think this through when they built they Expo line..?

 

wait till the regional connector is done....

[Deucey]

...Did they not think this through when they built they Expo line..?

In California, we tend to be real cheap building transit because we hate taxes more than Grover Norquist - we just tend to be pragmatic at times.*

 

If anything, Expo and Gold should've been built with grade separation at major intersections, and the Blue Line should be retrofitted to grade separate every level crossing between Washington and Wardlow solely because of the car v train accident rate.

 

I also think there should be a connection for Blue Line trains to go to Santa Monica and Expo Line trains to go to Long Beach instead of making people transfer at Pico. But that's a pipe dream - especially since come 2019 that trip can be done via four trains: Blue to Willowbrook; Green to LAX; Crenshaw to Expo and Expo to Santa Monica. But only NYers take four trains.

 

(*Saying "we" like I'm still a Californian.)