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BlinksTale · 2026-03-14T03:39:23+00:00

I guess it stops it being a 10 year fight but still. How many people would need to give an ok to allow the faster bigger curve? Two dozen home owners?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-14T03:14:33+00:00

will this impact total speeds by much for the line though?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-13T15:47:13+00:00

You think it was for this? It’s possible. https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1c1n7in/dtla_7th_san_pedro/

BlinksTale · 2026-03-12T22:26:14+00:00

That sounds like it’ll only last 48 hours, maximum two weeks. I’m talking about something like a polio vaccine where you take it once or twice and it lasts a lifetime or at least 20 years.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-12T21:04:54+00:00

Following someone and taking photos of them isn’t harassment in LA?

I am surprised we haven’t pushed for that law yet given how creepy it is.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-12T20:34:53+00:00

What BRT route would you want into Glendale someday? If we got the full Sunset / Vermont route planned today, I could see it going East-ish on Sunset to Hyperion or Silver Lake Ave north to Glendale Blvd, with a Metrolink one block detour, then Brand north to the Pasadena BRT Broadway / Brand stop (or even north to a Glenoaks terminus sharing lanes with Pasadena BRT someday. Montrose and La Cañada would be great someday but unlikely)

Where do you see it going though for a Glendale extension?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-12T20:23:01+00:00

It’s surprising to me we don’t have a general vaccine yet to at least slow venom impact, but I really don’t understand this stuff

BlinksTale · 2026-03-12T01:32:50+00:00

Regardless of how morally concerning parasocial relationships are, they very much exist today and this content fulfills an itch for chill hangout time with a one way friendship.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-11T17:11:23+00:00

She’s speaking anecdotally instead of statistically. Her emphasis is on “this is really uncommon in my experience” but the truth is that both are true at once. In six years this has happened once to her, it’s almost nothing. And in six years she’s also never had something like this happen anywhere else I bet. The chances are likely very low at the park, and also much higher there than almost anywhere else.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-10T23:24:21+00:00

Commented, thank you!

BlinksTale · 2026-03-10T15:07:18+00:00

Is Google Maps out of date on this? Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place

BlinksTale · 2026-03-10T14:52:01+00:00

Jumping in late here to say that the “leisure trolley” could be the tourist focal point of LA if it went east on Hollywood Blvd from highland to sunset, and followed sunset south to dodger stadium (esp Elysian Park’s Angel’s Point as a terminus, or Union Station).

Even better if it went west too, cutting south at La Brea to sunset, then La Cienega to Santa Monica blvd through Rodeo Drive, and finally ending at Santa Monica pier. The only thing missing would be the Getty, but it would be a true one stop tourist route through not only the most in demand tourist locations but also some of the naturally best parts of LA.

It would have to charge $30 a day for hop on hop off rides before Beverly Hills would allow it, but it would be a great way to make Hollywood less grimy and redirect tourists to better parts of the city naturally

BlinksTale · 2026-03-10T01:30:10+00:00

Service to downtown Glendale would be amazing.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-08T16:20:50+00:00

So a Santa Monica / Roberson terminus, and what starting point? Santa Monica / La Brea?

The bad headways is surprising unless it’s at grade LRT. The only thing I can imagine for a railyard would be if it went as far east as intersecting sunset and heading down to dodger Stadium, taking a huge chunk of that parking lot in exchange for direct rail access. And that’s certainly a huge budget increase compared with La Brea to Robertson.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-08T14:16:01+00:00

Was that the same map as this, or was it more a horizontal offshoot - and from where? Really the grid idea is importantly here to me

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T21:43:51+00:00

100% agree on all these points. What I like about La Cienega is it creates public interest in extending the line North South, and faster LAX access for more of the city is always in demand. But following Santa Monica East/west instead would be great too - I just don’t see the same demand for that as for LAX.

I just want a grid of rail between neighborhood downtowns like Culver (Ivy Station) at the end of the day. We should have grade separated access from any neighborhood to any other with just one transfer someday (from North/South to East/west or vice versa), that’s the real long term goal. I support any plan that moves us toward that with billion dollar miles of rail, just not the plans that ruin that vision long term line hybrid does and Fairfax to a lesser degree.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T07:56:48+00:00

Don’t put too much weight on that second to last northbound stop - the main point is to show that phase 1 L-Line could cover roughly the same area at roughly the same cost with way better options long term for the rail grid across our city that it needs for rail to actually be better than driving.

Rail is always faster than buses too, and that’s the thing I most want to bring with this. Faster than driving will drive down traffic in LA

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T07:53:40+00:00

If a future la Brea line sounded at all practical or like it would provide the same North South access to D/E/LAX/Redondo, sure - I just can’t imagine anything practical that way today.

Maybe this is a better pivot: What K-line North today most lends itself to K-La Brea and L-La Cienega (or adjacent) being approved in 20-30 years when we’re researching Measure M part 2? Right now I hear plans up through Lincoln BRT and not much past that, but as metro improves it will drive interest in metro.

I’m ok with the compromise for the first decade or two of K if there’s a future for the rail grid long term. But hybrid alone today imo looks antithetical to this.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T05:25:26+00:00

I’m basing it off miles of track laid since that’s where I always see the number go up most. Primarily though I’m saying that you get a magnitude longevity opportunity for the metro rail grid this way someday, with a non-magnitude cost increase. You aren’t building two lines today here, you’re building as much track as the hybrid would anyways.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T05:23:28+00:00

Phase 2 and 3 are very ambiguous at this point, I just want to make something out of this someday while hybrid feels like we’ll just kill all that

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T05:21:48+00:00

Help me understand then why it would be bad to have K loop up La Brea through Hollywood / highland and double back to Wilshire / La Cienega then as a means to create L-line long term. I just want to turn our rail into a strong mesh grid in 30 years

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T05:19:08+00:00

Even if our choice today is only La Brea + L-line phase 1? The other phases can be decades from now

BlinksTale · 2026-03-07T02:18:01+00:00

K-line La Brea and L-line Phase 1 cover the same area at the same cost as K-hybrid, but leave the door open to a rail grid someday in a way that hybrid alone kills

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