Views on Light Rail
Your reporter failed to quote the most persuasive voice heard at the meeting at Hamilton High School to discuss light-rail options.
As the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission representatives and consultants grieved for the Red Car and assured that rail transit had increased property values in Ohio (Ohio?), the darn school bell kept ringing.
Each jarring episode brought the LACTC presentation to a dead stop. People jumped in their seats, the commission speakers forgot what they were saying. The gathering became tense and hyper-vigilant, waiting for the next assault.
Finally, after the fourth or fifth interruption, a man in the back of the room yelled: “This is what it will be like!”
The impartial voice of the bell was the most credible one heard that evening. Railroads and their stations do not belong in residential neighborhoods.
KATE BERGMAN
Los Angeles
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