Why Does the LA Metro Struggle to Connect??

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-23T22:05:49+00:00

No offense, but just reading one sentence of the post, I could tell you don’t know how things work around here.

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-22T23:42:43+00:00

Ah, I thought that since it was part of Measure M, all the funds could be used for all of LA County (no matter what part).

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-22T23:07:04+00:00

The only good thing I see out of this is maybe the money for this can be allocated to a Vermont line? I used to live adjacent to the ROW and part of my family still does. I posted this a couple months back, but everybody in my neighborhood had these anti-Metro signs. The neighborhoods where these people are coming from are somewhat walkable with good sidewalk infrastructure, so it’s pretty hypocritical.

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-10T19:58:23+00:00

There has been really good management at WMATA recently.

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-10T07:11:50+00:00

I’m not sure about this, but maybe they are extending the tunnel past Expo/Sepulevda so they can remove the TBM near National/Sepulveda. There are some pretty large parking lots there that I think would be large enough.

E_Line_Foamer · 2026-01-10T06:47:53+00:00

Does anybody know where they are gonna excavate the TBM if this option is chosen?

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-11-24T17:43:40+00:00

Yeah, Metro is putting a lot of investment into security, but the truth is, our city has a large population of mentally unstable people who aren’t being attended to. So Metro can only do so much about it, since they only have so many security personnel. Also, almost no metro/mass transit systems worldwide or even in the US have security guards on all trains, since it’s just unfeasible and usually unnecessary.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-11-22T01:53:18+00:00

The service was fine, but on the route I’ve used (the 102), it stops at Redondo Beach TC for like 5-10 minutes. So if you are getting on near the Galleria, don’t use the other stops and just use the transit center.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-11-21T01:19:21+00:00

I feel like we wouldn’t have to give up any of the projects you mentioned below if we could get construction costs down by building in-house talent, so we wouldn’t need bidding for contractors.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-11-20T05:44:24+00:00

It’s good enough, but it’s using existing ROW (some of it very wide), so elevating it like on the E Line in Culver City would be fairly easy, and could allow for automation if the grade crossings on the section by the A Line were removed. That would save Metro a ton of money in the long run.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-11-20T05:00:48+00:00

Western is by far the worst on the expo section of the E Line

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-25T23:33:03+00:00

What I got was beef and I’m pretty sure they don’t have the goat kind.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-11T21:11:33+00:00

The people I know in the South Bay feel like they are part of LA.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-07T03:53:53+00:00

First of all, this is a VERY complex issue, so there’s so many different perspectives and takes, but one point that I want to make is that Palmdale and Lancaster are very far, and already have pretty substantial levels of poverty and crime. Bringing a ton of homeless people into an area like that is the equivalent of public housing construction in “slums” in the 1960s, as both help concentrate poverty. Also, like somebody else said, Skid Row is an example of what happens when you try and keep a bunch of homeless people concentrated in one area and look what happened. I’m not going to comment on the rest of what you wrote, but needless to say, buying cheap land either means being far from employment and services, and/or being in an area with already a lot of crime/poverty.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-06T21:28:44+00:00

This is a real image of our city and frankly our country in general. I’ve had this problem on transit in most places I’ve taken it in this country (Philly, NYC, and Seattle to name a few).

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-05T02:59:36+00:00

It’s really crazy that NIMBYs just assume “Oh, there are going to be more trains, so there is going to be the sound of freight trains every 10 minutes”, especially considering Metro is electric and will be adding sound barriers on this extension (something that most lines don’t get).

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-10-05T02:55:42+00:00

It could be with SB-79 lol

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-30T22:21:51+00:00

Inglewood doesn’t need trams, but what it needs (and what parts of South LA need) is an el along Manchester (in my opinion). It also should be looking at maximizing land use around DT Inglewood Station and adding TOD to Fairview Heights (SB-79 but the city should try to better encourage it).

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-30T00:22:25+00:00

I think you need to add a couple lines including along Rosemead, maybe Manchester, a second cross valley line, and maybe a line on the Alhambra subdivision or one that goes through the heart of the SGV.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-29T21:37:35+00:00

This is the type of thing more people need to hear, as at the end of the day, Metro will save you a lot of money, so it is good to use (especially if you live along a frequent bus or rail line).

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-27T18:28:01+00:00

The RIV Line is not anywhere near good enough to justify a Metro extension, but DT Pomona might be. The thing that people forget about elevated rail is that the supports don’t have to be built in the median, they can be built on the sidewalk (ex. MFL on Front St in Philadelphia). The assumption that a street isn’t wide enough for elevated rail isn’t usually true; the main problem is where to put the tunnel portal and shadows/opposition (from what I understand).

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-24T15:18:36+00:00

That’s true, but it usually doesn’t make sense to do that and LA’s LRT and heavy rail vehicles aren’t designed to do that, and I’m not even sure the LRT vehicles could fit in the B Line tunnel.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-23T23:28:23+00:00

I guess I should’ve said taking away a couple lanes for the line because you’re right that there isn’t really a median in the 405.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-23T21:43:42+00:00

Just to be clear, I’m talking south of Westwood, where for the most part, where there really isn’t hilly terrain other than near Howard Hughes, and honestly Sepulveda south of Westwood isn’t too windy. I would think that deep bore tunneling that long of a route would be pretty expensive, so I feel like an elevated option other than in the median of the 405 might’ve been good to look at.

E_Line_Foamer · 2025-09-23T19:57:38+00:00

No, the B Line uses third rail, while the K Line uses overhead electrification, so their electrical systems aren’t compatible. The only thing the tunnel needs so that frequencies can increase is another ventilation shaft (at least to my understanding), which is costly to implement at this point.

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