EDITORIAL BACKWARD VISION ALL THIS SUBWAY TALK IS ABOUT AS USEFUL AS A HOLE IN THE GROUND.AT the unremitting insistence of City Councilman Tom LaBonge Tom LaBonge (b. Los Angeles 1953), member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th district. He has served since 2001, taking over the position upon the death of John Ferraro. , the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has agreed to reconsider its subway ban and look at extending the Red Line to the Westside. What this would entail just for openers is to overturn the will of the people and the Congress of the United States Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the federal government, instituted (1789) by Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which prescribes its membership and defines its powers. . Upon learning that fortunes were being ripped off and wasted and that what they were getting was a subway to nowhere, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County voters barred use of their tax dollars for more subway construction. Upon learning that the Los Angeles subway was a literal and financial sinkhole sinkhole or sink or doline Depression formed as underlying limestone bedrock is dissolved by groundwater. Sinkholes vary greatly in area and depth and may be very large. and that the Westside line would go through an explosive field of natural gas, the Congress said $4.5 billion for a hole in the ground was enough. Still the board has agreed to waste time and the public's money to study something in what amounts to pandering to the Westside. In pushing the subway proposal, LaBonge said Thursday, ``Let's be visionary.'' Visionary? There's nothing new about subways. Los Angeles tried the idea once; it was a fiasco. If the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. board wants to truly be visionaries and launch innovative transportation projects that help all of the region's communities and neighborhoods, it wouldn't be wasting time on something as last century as subways tunneling under earthquake-prone and methane gas-filled Wilshire Boulevard Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named for H. Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. . It would build affordable busways and link them with Rapid buses and jitneys to create a transit system from the ground up. |
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