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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

kestrel91316

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5. City has no money for buses, nor do the feds or county. Plus, when you raise fares at the same time

Reply to pinto (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 03:07 PM

Dec 2011

as cutting service, many folks give up on transit altogether and stay home or use cars.

Service is so crappy now I am considering giving up and going 100% bicycle. On these streets. A frightening prospect.

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Any other Los Angeles residents who love the Gold Line in LA? [View all] JDPriestly May 2011 OP

I took the Blue Line, Union St. to Long Beach recently. pinto Dec 2011 #1

I took the Orange Line to the Red Line to the Blue Line to Long Beach to see the aquarium a couple kestrel91316 Dec 2011 #3

I don't get over there much. Wish they hadn't completely eliminated the 750 on weekends. It's hard kestrel91316 Dec 2011 #2

I'd wager the cut backs are either due to money or ridership stats. Even in my small town pinto Dec 2011 #4

City has no money for buses, nor do the feds or county. Plus, when you raise fares at the same time kestrel91316 Dec 2011 #5

The Gold Line is extremely popular and pretty full most of the time. JDPriestly Dec 2011 #6