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If it hasn't already (photo taken in 2007), this bus stop at Jefferson and La Cienega could use some improvements | Photo by Fred Camino via Flickr
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that $400 million from the economic recovery package is headed to make capital investments in transit throughout California. It's not going to build us the Subway to the Sea or anything sexy like that, but is headed to more functional improvements, such as seen in the above photo:
- $1,030,644 to Metro for Bus Stations/Stops Improvements
- $225,085,056 to Metro to purchase replacement buses, perform bus overhaul, widen Red Line rail stations egress, replace fiber optic equipment for train stations, replace Metro Blue Line TPSS
- $8,185,197 to Metro for Traction Power Substation Replacements Along the Metro Blue Line
- $4,522,269 to the city of Torrance for the Purchase of 8 Replacement 40-foot Alternative-Fueled Buses
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Biking regularly by the stop featured in your photo, a lot has changed with the Expo line construction nearby, (and there's now an Arby's and a Starbucks across the street), but I can state without doubt that nothing in the way of a thin dime's worth of improvements has been to that bus stop itself. In fact, it's gotten worse. Those plastic chairs, donated by some kind soul have long since been pilf'd.
Wow, Will. thanks for the update!
All that public transportation would be a lot more useful if our city wasn't firing people by the boatload.
I can't help but think that our school system, which is firing hundreds of teachers and staff, dooming schools to nonfunctionality, and cancelling summer school could have used $400 million.
Where will the remaining $161,176,834 going to end up?
To other cities and counties in California. What I listed was just for the LA area. Nearby, Ventura and Santa Barbara got some too.