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In a major step toward creating a light rail line to connect Culver City with downtown, yesterday the MTA approved $640 million to fully fund the project. We don't quite get all the back and forth about money contributed by state, federal and municipal governments, but the gist is that an above-ground rail line may extend from downtown's 7th street subway station to the intersection of Washington and National as early as 2010. After that, the MTA has its eye on Santa Monica. Westward ho!
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That's great, and all...but they couldn't find it within themselves to stretch those tracks a few miles further down the road to, say, Venice and Lincoln? By the time I drive all the way from Venice Blvd and Abbot Kinney to Robertson and Venice Blvd, I'm going to keep driving downtown, not suddenly hop on a train. If I could catch a train from Lincoln and Venice to downtown, I'd be downtown a lot more often.
Doesn't Venice Boulevard seem like a natural path for the train to downtown? ALL of Venice Boulevard?
About frigging time. And yeah to what the Advice Goddess says: make that train come all the way to the beach! Go whole hog! Give us a straight shot from Venice to Downtown, then get rolling on a line from the Valley down to Long Beach! Jebus, just follow the 405! And use more exclamation points in your reports!