LAUPT Purple and Red Line capacity is necessary, and a good investment short and long term, Short term due to the need for more peak and event capacity, as more folks go to Football games, giant rallies, and the like. And, long term, it will be needed, as the next two purple line segments come on line, due to the huge increase in new trips and the huge number of longer distance bus trips, in the Wilshire corridor that will be diverted to rail. That capacity and turnaround capability will be needed regardless of the completion to the LRT connector. Those going through to Downtown, USC, or LAX, will be replaced by those riders, by 2025.

At one time they looked at extending the Red and Purple line trains to a station in the Arts District at 4th Street, and building a four track stub, that would allow for storage and ease of changing ends that would accomplish the same purpose, and add service to that area. Did anything ever come of that, and, how will this be accomplished?

As to Palm Springs, Thousand Palms, Indio.... I'll stick by my $500 million dollar "minimum" price tag for the "minimum" necessary improvements to allow sufficient capacity for a modest level of operations, and update that about 7 years since I last did that calculation. I'd have preferred to have spent a billion on this, and allow for a very high quality, all day, ML and ,service at a LOSSAN "level of service" (high frequency 110 mph. segments), if Arnold and Jerry hadn't decided to squander vastly more than this on Chowchilla to Fresno..........


Bring back the North-South split, where the CTC allocated funds based on the population ratios between the north and the south, apply it to all rail funds, as the other 60% of the State's population is tired of getting nothing.....while sitting in more and more traffic, going slower and slower, now often all day long, on corridors like the I-5, I-10, and 101.