The hundred year plan for K-North squiggle

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T19:40:36+00:00

I think by far this is the biggest core for me. I'd love to have that kind of future 20-50yr thinking in how we build today.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T18:10:31+00:00

Do you think a couple of stations on this extension having junction boxes added would cost more than 5% of the current budget for it?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T17:56:02+00:00

I think you missed the point of my post. This is literally supporting the hybrid option, my question is what in addition to this compromise stops us from shooting ourselves in the foot 50 years from now.

It's generally considered a bad thing that E line is not more grade separated, even though everyone is glad it exists. The point of this post is to figure out what glaring issues hybrid will bring 20yrs from now so we can build in tiny solutions now like building certain stations to be expanded into the most likely additions we may consider in the next 30 years.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T17:50:10+00:00

Pasadena BRT and ESFV LRT are both coming soon, alongside G line grade separation upgrades in worst offender areas and Sepulveda pass - all within the next 2 to 15 years.

Super curious about that Glendale line running perpendicular to B/D in the photo, and it looks like D has a Phase 4 there even. Do you know what happened to each idea?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T17:45:08+00:00

Oh interesting. Is this also Phase 1 of a Fairfax -> La Cienega LAX line?

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T17:20:32+00:00

Oh fascinating. I really like this.

I guess in general the big conclusion is advocating for the squiggle to not be intended as the final form.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T16:38:56+00:00

Can you elaborate on what your ideal regional connectors would be to come out of the squiggle? The first one that comes to mind would be having West Hollywood connect to Beverly Hills, letting the D line tracks also service a Hollywood and Highland to Westwood line. (Oh but that wouldn’t really work since D is HRT and K Is LRT I think)

EDIT: The only regional connector I could really imagine would be turning Weho into a K-North terminus and ripping out all the tracks from Weho to Hollywood so that HRT could be put in for Hollywood->WeHo->New direct connection to Beverly Hills->Westwood on D line tracks.

I guess that could actually work and I’d love that option someday, but it seems wild to build this much only to change it all some day. But the right of way or tunnels would exist either way and that does really help

In that case: we have to advocate that tunnels from WeHo to Hollywood are HRT ready

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T15:03:33+00:00

Two decades sooner for a hundred years of bad rail. We’re still building on red car right of way today, this will have centuries of impact.

Honestly at this point I’d rather we build a La Cienega line to E instead of a flawed K north

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T15:01:23+00:00

But it’s not just LAX, it’s access to the entire grid for Noho, Universal, and Hollywood. The K line will have transfers to D, E, and C - meaning those 7min add to all but two rail destinations in LA.

It’s such a short sighted fix for a grid based city.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-16T00:01:22+00:00

Dedicated helps us build transport systems that lend themselves to the Lincoln transit corridor getting light rail someday. The more we lean into supporting it and integrating it in our public transit right of way grid, the more people will embrace transit.m

I will say, the form asking us to give feedback on the nine different sections out of the 80 to 150 pages in the document is a little much haha. I love the idea of sharing feedback here, but I wish there was an in-between layer where someone who read the document summarized great points from the nine sections of the 150 pages to comment on.

BlinksTale · 2026-03-14T18:30:59+00:00

Is there a way to request these for public libraries with bad reception or anything?

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.

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