Something to take into consideration is the world we live in today and for the foreseeable future. Metro's ridership has been decimated by the pandemic. People no longer want to be indoors or underground in enclosed spaces with crowds of people. Metro's ticket fares have all but depleted. County Sales taxes are indefinitely impacted by the closing of stores and restaurants as shopping for non essentials moves online. The structures in technology and communication have solidified the remote working of a large portion of the workforce.
Any Heavy Rail option from Van Nuys to LAX is minimum $20 Billion Dollars. Metro has a projected amount of $9.7 Billion allocated for this project from Sales tax projections that were crafted in 2016... and that did not take into account a pandemic.
At this point, we will be "lucky" if we can get anything.
Last edited by hughfb3; Feb 28, 2021 at 6:49 AM.
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