Talk about calculating things in "dog years."
Somehow our mayor - the president of the MTA
Board! - just found out that if his beloved 'Subway to the Sea' is ever built, they'll be carrying him aboard for the first trip.
He'll be 78 years old! Anybody want to bet if his teeth are still white and his hair without a hint of grey?
How do you feel about Measure R now, Westsiders? And you thought you were going to sell the Prius. By the time this thing's done, cars might fly.
According to Steve Hymon of the ever-shrinking Dog Trainer, the proposed rail line doesn't figure to pass engineering and environmental muster until 2013, just in time to see its biggest booster, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, leave office if elected to a second term.
And it won't even reach Westwood until 2032.
So if your having puppies today, they'll be old enough to vote when the line opens.
If the timetable is unchanged, according to the Dog Trainer, the subway extension to the Westside would reach La Cienega Boulevard in 2019, Century City in 2026 and Westwood by 2032.
When and where the subway would reach the ocean in or near Santa Monica remains uncertain.
Meanwhile, the new Measure R timeline contains at least another new element.
The spending plan on the ballot told voters that a light-rail line or busway mostly along Crenshaw Boulevard and ending at Los Angeles International Airport would be ready by 2018. That plan has been pushed back a decade, with the MTA now calling the Green Line extension to LAX the first phase of the Crenshaw line.
Damien Goodmon, a transit activist in South Los Angeles, said the Crenshaw line delay was a betrayal of residents in the community who overwhelmingly voted for Measure R, thinking the tax hike would get the project built more quickly.
Come on, even Bruno never believed that crap.
And according to the mayor's top flack, he shouldn't have believed it either.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the mayor said the timeline for the Subway to the Sea is unacceptable and noted that Measure R "allows us to seek federal support and advance the timeline."
"We have for the first time an administration in Washington that intends to invest in public transportation," said Villaraigosa press secretary Matt Szabo. "When the mayor was running for office, the Subway to the Sea was mocked as a pipe dream. Now the question is not if it's going to be built, but when it's completed."
Pardon me while I roll on my back and howl. Feel free to rub my belly.
Woof!
Somehow our mayor - the president of the MTA
Board! - just found out that if his beloved 'Subway to the Sea' is ever built, they'll be carrying him aboard for the first trip.He'll be 78 years old! Anybody want to bet if his teeth are still white and his hair without a hint of grey?
How do you feel about Measure R now, Westsiders? And you thought you were going to sell the Prius. By the time this thing's done, cars might fly.
According to Steve Hymon of the ever-shrinking Dog Trainer, the proposed rail line doesn't figure to pass engineering and environmental muster until 2013, just in time to see its biggest booster, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, leave office if elected to a second term.
And it won't even reach Westwood until 2032.
So if your having puppies today, they'll be old enough to vote when the line opens.
If the timetable is unchanged, according to the Dog Trainer, the subway extension to the Westside would reach La Cienega Boulevard in 2019, Century City in 2026 and Westwood by 2032.
When and where the subway would reach the ocean in or near Santa Monica remains uncertain.
Meanwhile, the new Measure R timeline contains at least another new element.
The spending plan on the ballot told voters that a light-rail line or busway mostly along Crenshaw Boulevard and ending at Los Angeles International Airport would be ready by 2018. That plan has been pushed back a decade, with the MTA now calling the Green Line extension to LAX the first phase of the Crenshaw line.
Damien Goodmon, a transit activist in South Los Angeles, said the Crenshaw line delay was a betrayal of residents in the community who overwhelmingly voted for Measure R, thinking the tax hike would get the project built more quickly.
Come on, even Bruno never believed that crap.
And according to the mayor's top flack, he shouldn't have believed it either.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the mayor said the timeline for the Subway to the Sea is unacceptable and noted that Measure R "allows us to seek federal support and advance the timeline."
"We have for the first time an administration in Washington that intends to invest in public transportation," said Villaraigosa press secretary Matt Szabo. "When the mayor was running for office, the Subway to the Sea was mocked as a pipe dream. Now the question is not if it's going to be built, but when it's completed."
Pardon me while I roll on my back and howl. Feel free to rub my belly.
Woof!
Ron Kaye
Anyone who's been paying any attention to the MTA's scoping meetings on the westside extension as well as all the projects from Measure R knows that they've always given out these same dates and priorities, and they've been on their website.
The only reason it's taking so long to get the subway to the westside in the first place (after decades of delays) is because of obstruction from both NIMBY westside enclaves (especially Cheviott Hills/ Tract 7260 etc., who got Waxman and Zev on board, though now they've come around to their credit) AND anti-westsiders from Latino Eastsiders like Gloria Molina/ Gloria Romero at state level, AND Inland Empire and Valley types like Antonovich/ Knabe, and then the citizen activist groups like South L A's Damien Goodwin and his group yelling "Environmental Racism" alleging favoritism to "the affluent enclaves" (and YOU, Ron Kaye -- you deride Reyes as playing the class/ race card all the time, which may be, but so do you).
The only reason some westsiders did not approve Measure R was fears that in the decades it would take to build the subway "to the sea," these same "rich westside haters" who ignorantly claim that the subway "would benefit the rich" may kill the project before it happens.
However, sure we were aware that many of us would be old or getting there before we'd see that subway "to the sea," but we also knew that if we didn't show local support for the project, the MTA and local pols would have no leverage in getting matching (or more?) federal funding, relative to other cities which have locally put their money where their mouths are.
Has anybody checked either of the Mayor's two calanders (thats right, we don't have access to his "private" calander) to see if any of his 11% doing city business included MTA attendance as President?
I'm sure that lobbying Obama and other fed agencies for money to complete these projects faster -- which MTA staff confirms he's been doing and the Times article emphasizes that he's making speeding up implementation of these projects and funding a top priority -- is NOT considered by the Weekly part of his 11% worktime. Which shows how narrowly they've defined work, and how ludicrous their hit piece was -- if AnVil can bring in the big bucks from his new BF's in D.C., that's one of the most important things he can be doing.
And I'm not a particular fan, but looking at the others running or who could have run like Caruso, I have to say about him what Churchill said about democracy: "He's the worst possible option -- except for all the others."
Ooooo. Belly rub! Belly rub! Belly rub!
That's the best next to top of tail scratch where no dog can reach.
Bruno, if they would have let us reproduce, by the time that line is built our great-great-great-great-great granddogs would have be sniffing the streets...that is if the Big One hasn't hit or Nostradogmus' 2012 predictions didn't come true.
Your barking friend,
G. Shepherd
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