Comments on: LA and SF dogfight over transport visions https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/15/la-and-sf-dogfight-over-transport-visions/ Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Samuel Augustus Jennings https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/15/la-and-sf-dogfight-over-transport-visions/#comment-89352 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:12:34 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65834#comment-89352 Of course LA has Union Station and SF ain’t got nothing to compare with that architectural masterpiece… not even the new Intermodal Central with its dubious transit connections.

]]> By: HimTorton https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/15/la-and-sf-dogfight-over-transport-visions/#comment-88451 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:01:16 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65834#comment-88451 In reply to Samuel Augustus Jennings.

LA has a very expansive metro rail and commuter rail system, its just that the system is not very dense because LA is so sprawling. But even this problem is currently being fixed. copy and paste this in a new tab :

http://lametthesource.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/13-2011_map_gm_underconst_may13-1.jpg

not so transit-deprived, is it?

On the contrary, there is simply no comparison LA and Houston. Houston opened its first, and currently only, light rail line 10 years ago, and it is almost completely street running, making it no better than a bus. (No Houston commuter rail system yet.) Most of LA’s 88 miles of metro track run underground, elevated or on their own right of ways. Needless to say the commuter trains travel at high speeds on their 388 miles of track.

]]> By: Samuel Augustus Jennings https://calwatchdog.com/2014/07/15/la-and-sf-dogfight-over-transport-visions/#comment-88317 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:53:05 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=65834#comment-88317 LA is so far behind SF in public transportation there is simply no comparison. Better to compare Los Angeles with Houston, another transit-deprived metropolis.

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