To the editor: Whereas it’s nice that Los Angeles is lastly planning for mild rail traces, elevated rail traces alongside probably the most congested corridors are the quickest and least expensive methods to deal with various issues (“This rail line would get you to the Grove, the Beverly Heart and Cedars-Sinai. Is it L.A.’s ‘lacking hyperlink’?,” March 24). The Ok Line extension with a projected accomplished date of 2047 or later does nothing to deal with the quick transportation and housing crises we face.
An elevated Ok Line might be accomplished in an inexpensive timeframe, 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 items with out inflicting insufferable congestion.
Cities like Bangkok and Chicago have elevated traces that carry hundreds of individuals each day by means of 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 dealing with a “excellent storm” that threatens its 1984 founding ideas of housing fairness for seniors, the disabled, low-income residents and the LGBTQ+ group. Senate Invoice 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 tasks generally on single-family zoned parcels — all with no parking.
By the point the practice 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 reside and nowhere to park.
This shift ignores a stark actuality: Measure M funding for the Ok Line enlargement received’t even be out there till 2041. The place is West Hollywood going to get $112,000 per resident to pay its 25% share of the $15.9-billion building invoice?
Carolyn Campbell, West Hollywood
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To the editor: I believe the Ok Line extension is an effective step in the fitting route. However extra must be accomplished to make it a viable various to driving a automobile.
It wants police on each practice and station platform ensuring folks obey the guidelines; no loud music, no open drinks on trains. I don’t know what number of instances I acquired on the Blue Line and located somebody had spilled soda pop throughout a number of seats.
A dynamic mass transit community wants to draw extra than simply the low-income. Using the Metro must be much less annoying to draw a extra numerous clientele. Take 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 Seaside
