Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Metro Expo Line in LA County run underground instead of above ground along roughly the same route, with a POD no earlier than 2000.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Metro Expo Line in LA County run underground instead of above ground along roughly the same route, with a POD no earlier than 2000.
I'm just an underground fan. I like the overground, but I love a subway more. I love the fact they're massively expanding the Metro, though - Pomona by 2020!
And what would a Gore victory change? I mean, either way, the fiscal situation would likely remain the same...
Not from LA admittedly, but I do work in transit planning IRL and I just don't see it happening. Isn't the existence of a surface ROW one of the biggest appeals of using that corridor at all? Certainly if it had to go underground it wouldn't be built before the Wilshire subway. Maybe something could be conceivable if you do something to make a lot more funding available, take away the surface ROW and make the tunnelling ban only apply to Wilshire, but that's really starting to sound ASB to me. I suppose it could happen as part of something much bigger than LA, like into the realm of some of the interstate rail funding TLs we've kicked around...