Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/05/todays-headlines-399/ 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: Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/05/todays-headlines-399/comment-page-1/#comment-36701 Joe Linton Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:29:08 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=13851#comment-36701 I read that Gavin Newsom story yesterday and was struck by how much it sounded like the LADOT's lies about the Reseda Boulevard bike lanes. It seems like people in government don't know how easy it is in the internet age to track down documents and verify facts... It's sad. Sad also that Newsom can't bring himself to support people paying closer to the actual market cost for parking... I read that Gavin Newsom story yesterday and was struck by how much it sounded like the LADOT’s lies about the Reseda Boulevard bike lanes. It seems like people in government don’t know how easy it is in the internet age to track down documents and verify facts… It’s sad.

Sad also that Newsom can’t bring himself to support people paying closer to the actual market cost for parking…

]]> By: Dan Wentzel http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/05/todays-headlines-399/comment-page-1/#comment-36641 Dan Wentzel Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:44:43 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=13851#comment-36641 "There were forces inside Metro who wanted to kill the Gold Line Foothill Extension. But he has been trying to get everyone back together on the same page because we can’t succeed as a county if every sub-region only pushes their projects." ------------- This is from I Will Ride's blog. Speaking of every "sub-region", it was the San Gabriel Valley politicians on Metro who cast the no votes on proceeding with the high-ridership Purple Line extension, and opposed Measure R and now with a sense of entitlement and hypocrisy expect the Foothill Gold Line extension to go to the top of the transit planning list despite its anemic ridership projections. Perhaps I Will Ride would like to avoid any hint of hypocrisy and call out Mike Antonovich among other SGV political leaders for caring only about their "sub-region". “There were forces inside Metro who wanted to kill the Gold Line Foothill Extension. But he has been trying to get everyone back together on the same page because we can’t succeed as a county if every sub-region only pushes their projects.”

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This is from I Will Ride’s blog. Speaking of every “sub-region”, it was the San Gabriel Valley politicians on Metro who cast the no votes on proceeding with the high-ridership Purple Line extension, and opposed Measure R and now with a sense of entitlement and hypocrisy expect the Foothill Gold Line extension to go to the top of the transit planning list despite its anemic ridership projections.

Perhaps I Will Ride would like to avoid any hint of hypocrisy and call out Mike Antonovich among other SGV political leaders for caring only about their “sub-region”.

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