Regional Mass Transit Plans
It was refreshing to read Fulton’s opinion regarding the construction of commuter rail transit in the Los Angeles region. I have been in enough cities to have learned that mass transit only works in dense, urban areas. It is not necessary to be a transit expert to figure that out.
None of the transit lines proposed for Los Angeles will provide service to the urban Westside. This is an area where there are major, regional destinations--UCLA, Westwood, Century City, the beaches, Beverly Hills, Mid-Wilshire.
If a line is built west of downtown, it will follow a low-density path from Santa Monica to USC. It is hard to imagine that route being a highly traveled one.
It would sure be nice if someone would slow down and do some thinking before we end up with a multibillion-dollar rail system that serves almost no one.
JOHN THOMPSEN, West Hollywood
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