BOB2 Wrote:
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> Measure Monster Wrote:
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> > "He has gotten us LAUPT run through,"
> >
> > Show them to me!
> >
> > How about the 1.9 mile tax sucking downtown
> ditch
> > delay?
> >
> > Maybe I should ask old man SanTana who lays
> around
> > waiting for long promised dressing.
> >
> > Maybe the fareless 5150 that slimes the bus/LRV
> > seats knows how great Mr."Monna" Phil W. is.
> >
> > I know which way B#2 thinks the glass holds
> > liquid...the next four will be his train (bus)
> > funding glee!
> >
> > For the rest of us, a bottomless pit of
> > in/stag-flat-strain.
> >
> > It sure would be nice to take a reverse weekend
> > commute eastway.
> >
> > Time for more liquid.
>
> You poor little thing.... Lot's of stuff to do,
> especially with commute, and on weekend service
> when real life restarts next year... Back on
> earth, the poor due diligence in proper sub
> surface problems, and choice of fixed bid versus
> design build, on the downtown connector was before
> Phil.
>
> On the negative side he's gone forward with the
> bus restructuring, and improving the current state
> of on board sanitation, and maintaining
> "vigilance" on security and sanitation issues and
> problems hasn't been dealt with very well.
>
> I think that the project management, and level of
> planning on the Subway extension might be a better
> example of a project mostly done on Phil's watch,
> which has used the Covid to actually accelerate
> construction timetables during the shutdown,
> completing a years worth of potential incremental
> closures, in around 4 months, saving time and
> money, with the traffic levels down, as well....
> I ain't seen any of that kind of innovation with
> the CHSRA fiasco....
>
> But, since I suspect you haven't actually taken
> Metro in a while (ever?), there seem to be not
> nearly as many homeless riding and/or hanging out
> in station areas. I suspect some of this is
> because of "temporary" Covid housing, as I've seen
> this in a local park that had attracted a good
> sized midday homeless crew, that are now gone...
> And maybe, because of a higher visibility of
> on-board personnel doing cleaning, and/or
> enforcement of mask requirements, and/or the
> lighter passenger loads on three car trains for
> spacing, that actually make it harder for the
> homeless to "hide in the crowd" on a full train.
>
>
> I would also note that most, if not all, of the
> folks riding that I've experienced are more
> compliant and courteous, than some of these
> doorknob licking fools you run into....


Not only was I a daily LRV user on three lines, my LAST LRV TIME was late summer 2019 on two lines (that will "soon" be one) and it was the worst. I am pro transit and that experience has me back in my car! ...and I HAVE SEEN IT ALL on LRV trips daily!- Summmer 2019 beat everything-under Phil's watch!

You said that Phil gave us LAUPT flyover tracks. Will I see those around the same time as the Cypress college LRV station stop or ...?