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  Morass

  And yet with some of the more important bus lines using the freeways, it can't even be that simple...  I wish there were an easy way.  Largely, this region needs to break out of the hub model of running everything through downtown, and focus on building a network that will be useful long-term rather than on just trying to stay in the black for now.  But even just running one new rail line directly along where an old rail once ran is frought with tedious arguments.  May we have time to get this done, because it sure isn't going fast.On A perspective from Eric Mann posted 2 years, 4 months ago 29 Responses

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  View from the ground

  It is unfair to say the trains serve the rich here.  They go through many poorer areas, and many people who ride them are not rich.  Do not tell me a train through Compton is rich.  Out by the foothills, we have been waiting a long time for the Gold Line train.  I ride a bus that follows near the route it will take when complete...  That bus is packed, often standing room only, sometimes too full to take on pasengers.  It's not rich people on that bus, it's working class people.  The same people this article talks about!  The train would serve them, and better than this bus, once built.  Yet we are still waiting...  Because the East Side extension is being built first.  It is not in a rich area either.

  All our bus agencies here are struggling.  We need more money, and less of it to be tied to how much the fare box pulls in.  But the bottom line is we need more.  They're attempting an incredible task, with far too few resources.  Because I live in an area where you can't get by just using one agency's buses, I pay even more for my pass - $70 now.  It is too expensive, yes, but what can they do?  The money has to come from somewhere, the government provides a lot but not enough, and what they provide depends on how much the fares pull in.On A perspective from Eric Mann posted 2 years, 4 months ago 29 Responses

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  Nature of politics

  They say what will keep public opinion up, and eventually have to act on it at least a little regardless of their other interests if they want to get re-elected.  The Governator knows he has to come across as environmentalist, knows what an outcry there would be if he didn't, and that means one very crucial thing:  People care.  People actually care.  Entire cities trying to ban plastic bags... We're getting somewhere, this battle is getting into the minds of enough people that even the government can't avoid it any longer.On How progressive can legislation be if it's never allowed to make progress? posted 2 years, 4 months ago 7 Responses

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  Explosive habits

  Please, no more fireworks anyway.  How much greenhouse gas do those spew?  How many health problems does the choking smoke from them cause as it lingers over cities for days?  I'm not focusing on the fingers that get burned or the eyes destroyed by shrapnel, those at least the people chose to be that near it in most cases, and I don't mind conscious informed choice of risk.  But not being able to safely breath outside on the 5th is hideous.On Global warming cancels 4th of July celebrations posted 2 years, 4 months ago 28 Responses

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  Gas balance

  Does the calculation of whether trees are good as carbon sinks include their oxygen production?  Every time gasoline is burned, oxygen is consumed to make that carbon dioxide...  Maybe we should be planting trees as oxygen offsets.On A good reason we shouldn't love trees, at least not in this case posted 2 years, 4 months ago 40 Responses