Comments on: Rosendahl Slams Dodgers, Future of Shuttle in Doubt? http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/11/24/rosendahl-slams-dodger-future-of-shuttle-in-doubt/ 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: Ginny http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/11/24/rosendahl-slams-dodger-future-of-shuttle-in-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-3171 Ginny Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:45:09 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1423#comment-3171 There's a big benefit to the City paying for it and for Dodger fans to take it. As a season ticket holder (we don't do anything else during the rest of the year) I've sat through traffic before and during the trolley. If there were more trolleys and bigger push for people to use them, then there would be less cars heading up to the Ravine. This could make the whole area less congested and Metro and DASH buses able to get past the whole mess more quickly. You know what finally made the trolley better than taking the car? The day the trolley drivers figured out they could drive up most of the way using the turn lane. Give the Trolleys and regular BUS traffic their own lane and you'll see happy trolley riders and jealous car drivers. How about that...LOL! Dedicated Dodger Trolley Lane! Call it the Blue Lane. I'll buy some paint and do it myself. However...a dedicated transit line (maybe Light Rail) would be nice. If Manny gets a big contract we can call it the Manny Line! (Just a personal aside: Had the Trolley not been around last season I don't know how I would have gotten up the hill during my last three months of my pregnancy, or once Iolani was first born - her first game was she was barely a month old) There’s a big benefit to the City paying for it and for Dodger fans to take it. As a season ticket holder (we don’t do anything else during the rest of the year) I’ve sat through traffic before and during the trolley.

If there were more trolleys and bigger push for people to use them, then there would be less cars heading up to the Ravine. This could make the whole area less congested and Metro and DASH buses able to get past the whole mess more quickly.

You know what finally made the trolley better than taking the car? The day the trolley drivers figured out they could drive up most of the way using the turn lane. Give the Trolleys and regular BUS traffic their own lane and you’ll see happy trolley riders and jealous car drivers.

How about that…LOL! Dedicated Dodger Trolley Lane! Call it the Blue Lane. I’ll buy some paint and do it myself.

However…a dedicated transit line (maybe Light Rail) would be nice. If Manny gets a big contract we can call it the Manny Line!

(Just a personal aside: Had the Trolley not been around last season I don’t know how I would have gotten up the hill during my last three months of my pregnancy, or once Iolani was first born – her first game was she was barely a month old)

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