Parked cars are a great buffer but if we remove them then I would like to suggest that all sidewalks on main roads should have lots of trees and some nice street furniture to make it safe to walk.

I would also like to add that we need lots of bike racks.

And also time schedule and way-finder at every bus stop and down on the metro platforms!

And one more thing: covered benches at bus stops and more benches for people to sit on on the metro platforms (right now people are sitting on the stairs, which is an escape route, and on the floor.)

“Oh, and a comment specifically for Browne, if I may: Some of your posts show a lack of understanding about how these things work…” Kym

Blah, blah, blah I know exactly how things work. This is a blog that I comment on, not a school paper. Now go to my blog and tell me my facts are wrong on that blog. I doubt you will be able to, because on my posts on my blog I’m right on.

I’m not in anyone’s pocket. How about you Kym?

I have don’t have an organization to push or an agenda, my only agenda is that public transportation in LA needs to be fixed, FOR EVERYONE, not just the people in the burbs.

Why don’t you take your award from the MTA and cheerlead somewhere else.

If the MTA handed me anything I would use it to wipe my a**.

Browne

Take a look at the OC Toll roads, you don’t see many with pool cleaning equipment or lawnmowers loaded in their beds.

The other thought is to prohibit the rollback of gasoline prices. If gas prices spike to $3.50, they don’t go back down at the pump. The difference between production costs and pump costs go to the same funds as above. There’s less incentive for corporations to shut down refineries at peak periods if there’s no benefit from keeping prices high because they claim there’s a shortage. There’s also no surprise as to gas costs, either – they become fixed and easy to budget for.

2) Freeways should be “ALL CARPOOL” during rush hours, excepting buses and trucks. This would not require building any lanes, just putting up signs. Cost would be minimal.

I would like to add a comment, though, on escalators. You can add all the signs you want, but until you find a way to get people to stop taking strollers and bicycles on them, you’re not going to get anywhere with posting “stand to the right” signs. (Metro can’t even get people to keep strollers and bikes out of the aisles in the trains …)

Oh, and a comment specifically for Browne, if I may: Some of your posts show a lack of understanding about how these things work (Fred having to correct you about public funds subsidizing transit, for instance). When you call for people to call Roger Snoble daily about this, I can tell you that the only impact you will have is increasing his perception that most people don’t know what they are talking about. Which means you’ll get to leave messages for him every day that will get ignored. If you are going to advocate for positive change, you must be speaking from a credible, knowledgeable position, or you will get nowhere.

#11 Create incentives for people to live close to where they work.

If half the people that work in LA lived within say 15-20 min of their work, then our roads and buses would move much quicker. They might even opt to take a bus or train. Not everyone needs to live in a 5 bedroom house in the burbs. As for the people that can’t afford to live near their work. Tax breaks or other incentives can be created to make it affordable. We would end up saving money in the long run as we don’t have to maintain the roads as much and we get the tax dollars instead of the IE. We must bring people closer to where they work and get them off the roads! There are serious quality of life issues when you spend 4 hours in a car polluting the earth and giving everyone’s children asthma.

rant over…thank you.

#11 Create incentives for people to live close to where they work.

If half the people that work in LA lived within say 15-20 min of their work, then our roads and buses would move much quicker. They might even opt to take a bus or train. Not everyone needs to live in a 5 bedroom house in the burbs. As for the people that can’t afford to live near their work. Tax breaks or other incentives can be created to make it affordable. We would end up saving money in the long run as we don’t have to maintain the roads as much and we get the tax dollars instead of the IE. We must bring people closer to where they work and get them off the roads! There are serious quality of life issues when you spend 4 hours in a car polluting the earth and giving everyone’s children asthma.

rant over…thank you.

#11 Create incentives for people to live close to where they work.

If half the people that work in LA lived within say 15-20 min of their work, then our roads and buses would move much quicker. They might even opt to take a bus or train. Not everyone needs to live in a 5 bedroom house in the burbs. As for the people that can’t afford to live near their work. Tax breaks or other incentives can be created to make it affordable. We would end up saving money in the long run as we don’t have to maintain the roads as much and we get the tax dollars instead of the IE. We must bring people closer to where they work and get them off the roads! There are serious quality of life issues when you spend 4 hours in a car polluting the earth and giving everyone’s children asthma.

rant over…thank you.

#6 is a disastrous idea. Allowing food and beverages will mean every train and bus will have sticky floors and smell awful within a week.