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Albeit slowly, the 10 year process is now in a community meeting phase. Last night, StreetsblogLA writer Damien Newton attended: "By removing buses from the snail's pace of rush hour traffic, Metro will be able to sweepingly reverse the trend of longer commutes for transit riders along the Wilshire Corridor. Rex Gephardt, who oversees the Rapid Bus program for Metro, noted that bus speeds are declining by .5% to .75% every year in the corridor." So what's next before this becomes a reality? Design, environmental review, federal approval and the actual work such as restriping lanes, widening some streets and redesigning 17 intersections. If all goes ahead and works, Los Angeles is looking at a strong* bus route that will compliment the hopeful "Subway to the Sea." (*Beverly Hills and Santa Monica are not taking part in this program)
Bus Only Lanes for Wilshire Moving Ahead
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SUBWAY!!!
what a moronic decision - does anyone remember the "bus lanes" on wilshire between santa monica and the 405?
the powers that be took one lane (of three lanes total) in each direction on wilshire and turned into buses only - so in effect took 33% of the traffic lanes for buses - and created absolute gridlock.
there is no room on wilshire to add an additional lane - great leaders we have here - steal one lane from the masses so few can save 5 minutes off their cross-city commute.
Ven NM, you're kidding right? If you really have a problem with gridlock then get your bum out of your car and take public transit. If there is one thing we learned from this past election, the masses of Los Angeles don't know what's good for them (Prop 8).
I hope 100 years from now I hope the state of California takes away christian rights. It'd serve the masses right (I really don't hope this would happen, I'm not a vengeful like their god).
Once the subway to the sea is put in place, we can remove the bus lanes and all will be swell in LALA land.
Shouldn't we give incentives for people who don't want to drive? Wouldn't that help your commute? Come let's think about the big picture.
Since I don't ever drive on the right side lane of Wilshire blvd - Metro can do whatever they want with that lane. Can't park in it without losing your sideview mirror. Can't drive in the right lane unless I want to scrape the bottom of my car. Can't do my makeup on the bus for most of the stretch.
I'm going to start my own facebook club though, and I'm going to call it: REPAVE WILSHIRE!
REPAVE WILSHIRE!
REPAVE WILSHIRE!
REPAVE WILSHIRE!
1. Bus lanes improve traffic flow everywhere else they are used. Unless you want to take the position that LA exists in a special universe where the laws of physics and other realities don't conform, then you are left with either accepting the facts or becoming a fact-free, reality-denying idiot. Fortunately, you live in a country that allows you to choose to be an idiot without suffering greatly for that choice. (Kind of like deciding whether to spend hundreds of dollars a month keeping a car, or $70 a month on a bus pass.)
2. Bunney, no one on the bus wants to watch your grooming.
DO YOUR MAKEUP AT HOME!
DO YOUR MAKEUP AT HOME!
DO YOUR MAKEUP AT HOME!
But you're right about Wilshire: the longest, busiest street in America - it's shameful the condition it's in.
3. The big picture, Robo? Asking an Angeleno to look at that is like asking them to put away the car keys, put down the drink, and walk to the grocery store. It is not in the nature of the average Angeleno to look at any picture bigger than a billboard.
"Beverly Hills and Santa Monica are not taking part in this program"
If they are not taking part, does this mean bus lanes will only be from the Beverly Hills city limit to downtown or what?
I believe there will be a chasm of bus lane in the BH section and it will pick up in westwood and at SaMo city line.
"there is no room on wilshire to add an additional lane - great leaders we have here - steal one lane from the masses so few can save 5 minutes off their cross-city commute." -ven_nm
Um, you do realize there are masses on the bus right? Try riding the 720 sometime and then lets talk about the many versus the few.
Personally I think it's just a stop gap measure and we would be better off taking what ever money and resources would be spent planning it, to instead expedite the environmental review and planning stages of the subway project.
Beverly Hills is one of the biggest bottle neck in the system, and if they aren't game for the bus lane, then not much point. They are anti everything, and it was only recently they were for the subway. One of my biggest pet peeves in this city is that the Santa Monica Blvd. bike lane dies on contact with Beverly Hills, only to resume on the other side. They hate everything that isn't a Mercedes rolling through.
To the masses on bus 720 - live close enough to walk to work. problem solved and i don't have gridlock while i drive to work. thanks.
Do you have a source for the statement that 'bus only lanes improve traffic flow everywhere they are used'?
It really seems counter intuitive to me.
Open up the lanes to powered and non-powered two-wheelers as well (like London et al.) and maybe we're getting somewhere.
Thanks for sharing your lane!
"To the masses on bus 720 - live close enough to walk to work. problem solved and i don't have gridlock while i drive to work. thanks." -ven_nm
Are you kidding, or are you really that arrogant. Why don't you live close enough to work that you don't need to drive?
Make it a combined bus/bike line and now we're talking.
repave wilshire
make a bus lane , shit works in london
and build a subway that goes somewhere decent