Comments on: Richards Fires Back at Parochialism in Sales Tax Debate http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/22/richards-fires-back-at-parochialism-in-sales-tax-debate/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carlos Tower http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/22/richards-fires-back-at-parochialism-in-sales-tax-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2076 Carlos Tower Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:14:53 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1062#comment-2076 Why is it that everyone thinks the SGV or the San Fernando Valley oppose the Subway to the Sea? It seems to me that no one opposes it as it had the easiest time of making it on the transit list on the sales tax bill. No one ever argues that the subway extension is unnecessary, its that the westsiders argue that all other lines are unnecessary and that's why there is such a fight to get an equitable bill on the ballot. I guarantee that if everyone in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys have to drive to downtown to use this subway to the westside, they'll just stay in their cars until they get to work. For all those who say the Valley commuters have metrolink, I argue that it is one of the worst transit services in southern california. Either way I grow tired of this debate about equity where both sides seem to think that equity throughout the county means rationalizing the construction of a transit rail on one side and not the other. It seems to me that equity means building both. I have a lot of concerns about the sales tax, none of which concern the actual transit list. The pols have done the job they were elected to do, if it is on the ballot I will not hesitate to vote for. I just hope the gold line extension doesn't have to wait the ten years for the subway to the sea to be built before it breaks ground. That is just a waste of time and efficiency. Why is it that everyone thinks the SGV or the San Fernando Valley oppose the Subway to the Sea? It seems to me that no one opposes it as it had the easiest time of making it on the transit list on the sales tax bill.

No one ever argues that the subway extension is unnecessary, its that the westsiders argue that all other lines are unnecessary and that’s why there is such a fight to get an equitable bill on the ballot.

I guarantee that if everyone in the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys have to drive to downtown to use this subway to the westside, they’ll just stay in their cars until they get to work. For all those who say the Valley commuters have metrolink, I argue that it is one of the worst transit services in southern california.

Either way I grow tired of this debate about equity where both sides seem to think that equity throughout the county means rationalizing the construction of a transit rail on one side and not the other. It seems to me that equity means building both.

I have a lot of concerns about the sales tax, none of which concern the actual transit list. The pols have done the job they were elected to do, if it is on the ballot I will not hesitate to vote for. I just hope the gold line extension doesn’t have to wait the ten years for the subway to the sea to be built before it breaks ground. That is just a waste of time and efficiency.

]]> By: Dana Gabbard http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/22/richards-fires-back-at-parochialism-in-sales-tax-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2074 Dana Gabbard Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:18:37 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1062#comment-2074 This piece is bitterseet for Kymberleigh as she duid it know it would be her last op-ed edited by Chris Weinkopf, who as of today leaves the Daily News as editor of the editorial pages http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/07/no_more_jeans_or_weinkopf.php Once the measure is finally on the ballot we proponents PDQ need to mobilize and start advocating. There are 74 days until Nov. 4th. I'm sure this blog and others will have details on how to be involved at the appropriate time. This piece is bitterseet for Kymberleigh as she duid it know it would be her last op-ed edited by Chris Weinkopf, who as of today leaves the Daily News as editor of the editorial pages

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/07/no_more_jeans_or_weinkopf.php

Once the measure is finally on the ballot we proponents PDQ need to mobilize and start advocating. There are 74 days until Nov. 4th. I’m sure this blog and others will have details on how to be involved at the appropriate time.

]]> By: Dan Wentzel http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/08/22/richards-fires-back-at-parochialism-in-sales-tax-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-2069 Dan Wentzel Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:36:59 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1062#comment-2069 Hear, hear. This is a wonderful essay by Kymberleigh Richards. Rail lines to Century City, Santa Monica and LAX will benefit the entire county, not just the "westside". Equity isn't just about where people live, it's also about where people are going. Ridership, which should be the main determining figure for how dollars are spent, incorporates both the nighttime living population and daytime working population. Hear, hear.

This is a wonderful essay by Kymberleigh Richards. Rail lines to Century City, Santa Monica and LAX will benefit the entire county, not just the “westside”.

Equity isn’t just about where people live, it’s also about where people are going. Ridership, which should be the main determining figure for how dollars are spent, incorporates both the nighttime living population and daytime working population.

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