[a very long weekend]

^ it's a real shame that the republicans are back in charge because if the feds had renewed the 'moving forward' program, let alone supplied transit matching funds, the system build-out voters just approved could have been done in half the time. imagine getting that full system up in 15 years. you'd be talking about lines opening every year for several years in a row, 2022-2030 - imagine what that would do for the city, the built form, the patterns of movement. not hard to imagine in that reality another return to the voters to further expand, fill in, bury, elevate, convert to rail, cut headways.

trump is a tragedy for a giant number of reasons more important than LA transit, but just on this narrow one, man, it stings.