alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (07/03/84)
Your tax dollars may go to pay for the sins of your fathers--specifically, the proposed L.A. "MetroRail". I've seen scams before, and this one smells of it. They're talking $200 million a mile to build a 14 mile (multiply by 1.61 to get Klicks) subway. I need not remind you thusiats that until the mid-60s L.A. had 1200+ miles of trolleys; you can thank GM for buying the Red Cars and giving the city buses (really--like the first dose of heroin). Instead of using the existing roads (most of which the city still owns, BTW), the RTD (SoCal Rapid Transit Dist., or Racing Toward Disaster) wants to start completely over with a combined heavy/light system. With their way of budgeting, the National Debt will double in size. Nope, I have no suggestions for stopping it. Except perhaps to nuke RTD HQ (not a bad idea). Did you know that L.A. still has a 13-mile subway tunnel, now stuffed with Hall of Records archives? They didn't even give us back Angel's Flight. (info from word-of-mouth and an excellent series by the L.A. Times) Yours for better mass transit on rails, Alex