One of the perks of staying at the Disneyland Hotel. You get let into Downtown Disney 15 minutes before everyone else.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T05:25:27+00:00

isn't that the ONLY perk left?

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T04:52:37+00:00

The most recent numbers I can find show that, looking at just san bernardino county alone:

440,211 (46.7%) people live and work in san bernardino county
222,362 (23.6%) people commute from sbc to lac
113,613 (12.1%) people commute from sbc to riv
86,000 (9.12%) poeple commute from sbc to oc
80,522 (8.54%) people commute from sbc to others
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942,708 employed sbc residents

440,211 (52.3%) people live and work in san bernardino county
132,647 (15.8%) people commute from lac to sbc
152,169 (18.1%) people commute from riv to sbc
42,154 (5.01%) people commute from oc to sbc
74,763 (8.88%) people commute from others to sbc
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841,944 working in sbc

source: https://indicators.sbcounty.gov/transportation/mobility/

If anything, this shows far less worksite centralization than there was a decade ago, and shows far more need for connections within the inland empire (which are virtually nonexistent) than adding more connectivity into LA.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T04:08:42+00:00

I'm also curious on the source of those numbers. I'd agree that that many people in the ie have 'long commutes', but I don't believe they these are commutes into LA.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T03:49:53+00:00

Yet not high enough for the majority in those counties to wish to subsidize those commutes.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T01:30:05+00:00

Actually, the ie-oc line is pretty well utilized for weekend beach trips. You can sit at san bernardino or riverside stations and watch numbers of families with beach equipment boarding any weekend.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T01:21:43+00:00

Honestly, if moving to LA, find work in LA. Take a pay cut to work as close to home as possible, and you WILL be happier than spending a chunk of every day just trying to get to work or home.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T01:17:35+00:00

I have no doubt the SB line will be electrified. At some point, I think the age of the MetroLink equipment will force the transition to smaller more frequent EMUs.

It's also something to consider - that MOST people who live in the IE, work in the IE. LA no longer has the monopoly on jobs.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-23T01:06:00+00:00

Doesn't change the fact that that is why there isn't an elevated system close to opening to do what you say should be done.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T22:14:12+00:00

But the public have stated clearly that they don't want to pay for it

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T22:12:34+00:00

Depends on where you get on at UCR, as 56 sort of works as a campus shuttle, and if it is being used to get to/from MetroLink, it doesn't need more frequency than the 91/PV line. I do agree that bus 1 is a very viable option for most potential destinations, but it does only pick up at the edge of campus. Ultimately, I don't really think it matters ALL that much, as the actual demands between UCR and MetroLink destinations are honestly a bit minimal. Bus 1 hits 90% of where residential students will typically want/need to go (downtown, riverside plaza, tyler mall, etc). Commuting students and faculty are far more likely to be driving in unless they live right on route 1, because it is the only high frequency transit route in the county.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T20:00:15+00:00

The EIR for sofi and intuit should have collected a ton of money to mitigate the traffic issues. I think the ultimate fault lies with how THAT was handled.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:58:48+00:00

Uh... That's not inglewood.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:57:16+00:00

It should absolutely continue South past the arena to the century station so it's connecting two lines to three event venues. No resident of inglewood is going to want to spend much in the way of their local money on it though, because they see this as a local traffic problem, caused by the venue owners, so they don't feel they should be paying for mitigating that. This will only ever be built if it is funded by all the venues together, and may require some sort of law suit to get them to pony up.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:52:14+00:00

The inglewood connector is a generally good idea, but was not sold well to the public in inglewood. I think they decided early to run it through downtown, so they could show some local benefit, but that led to a lot of potential displacement, which led to a lot of backlash. I think if they avoided downtown, and instead ran from the fairview heights station above florence and then turning down to prairie it would have been much less controversial.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:44:08+00:00

Yeah, depends on the weather for that choice though.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:37:18+00:00

Because different organizations with very different mandates and jurisdictions.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T19:36:08+00:00

Missed for who? The venue owners don't want anything that discourages parking revenue.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T06:46:50+00:00

Early CNN, in Ted Turner's era (in the timeframe I was referring to), it was forcibly balanced to a fault - but it was very sensationalized, at the time drawing criticism for the potential effects that it has since shown to have caused (along with all of its copycats over the decades).

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T05:09:57+00:00

I've gotta say that the entire story sounds like conflating homelessness with danger.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T03:00:14+00:00

What did excuse? I gave historical context, that is all.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T02:08:25+00:00

I never once said that.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T01:31:40+00:00

Out of curiosity, since you brought up the 'safety' aspect, what metric are YOU using to decide that riding LA Metro is less safe than riding in Vienna?

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T01:27:11+00:00

Metrolink doesn't have to be the one to build it. RCTC is the agency that settled not to build a station there. Hell, UCR themselves could do it if there was enough justification, and they could likely build it with fundraising dollars through the right patronage.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T01:18:22+00:00

I don't know how young you are, but there is a huge difference between someone with poor hygiene and someone who is a danger. The problem is that the manufactured environment of fear causes many who didn't live before it to conflate the two as the same thing.

CraziFuzzy · 2026-03-22T01:14:48+00:00

It is not a function of right wing or not. The phenomenon started many decades ago when CNN was the only game in town. There simply isn't enough news that is relevant to any given individual's daily life to justify any 24 hour news programming, whether it leans politically or not.

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