Our View: Gold Line is shovel ready

This article does an excellent job of explaining Obamas shovel ready stimulus plan. It is any project that can get thru the bureaucratic mess and start within a year from opening discussion. Now I know why the stimulus bill is a failure.

POOR Tessitor and his thugs that urged voter's of Glendora, California to ALL vote against this measure when it was on the ballot, sounds like POT LICKING to me!

P.S. since these fools urged voters to vote measure R down, the Goldline will stop in the middle of AZUSA, CALIFORNIA.

It won't be the 'middle' of Azusa. It will stop on the Azusa / Glendora border, near the colleges at Citrus ave & Foothill Blvd. That's the plan anyway.

actually wrote:

It won't be the 'middle' of Azusa. It will stop on the Azusa / Glendora border, near the colleges at Citrus ave & Foothill Blvd. That's the plan anyway.

Works for me!

Wrong Again, get informed or get out of town!

The West Covina poster has a stalking type mentality when it comes to Doug Tessitor. I wonder if it's because Tessitor schools him so often at Glendora City Council meetings, like he did the other night.

Does the West Covina dream about this councilman? What happens with the dreams he has of others he is fascinated with?

Seek mental help poster, I believe Mr. Tessitor is married and straight.

OUCH!!!

We need this public works project now. It will add jobs to the economy and speed up the recovery from the economic problems of this last year. I pray the board will do the right thing and NOT fall back to the political dodges of years past.

Thanks for the info, Ouch!

West Covina Poster (or Wrong Again), you're the one who's wrong. The Monrovia poster is right, the next phase of the Gold Line construction plan extends to a second stop in Azusa, right by its border to Glendora. Walking distance to APU and Citrus.

So what's with this 'get out of town' garbage? I've heard of Tessitor, but I don't really have anything to do with Glendora or him (I'm sure the Monrovia person doesn't either). Why don't you get your own facts straight and stop being such a spaz to people?

If there ever was a “shovel” ready project this is it. The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension is needed wanted and should and can be started this year if the politicians will get out of the way. Yes the Expo Phase II, The Downtown Connector and the Subway to the Sea are worthily projects also but it does not have to be one or the other. This is a relatively low cost project that can be built for under 50 million a mile and can be built at the same time as the Expo Phase II. The engineering can be prepared for the Downtown Connector and the Subway to the Sea which are more expensive and will take a great deal more time before they are shovel ready. Let’s get the MTA board to vote to get this important project on the MTA list, get it funded and get it built and opened to Azusa by 2012.

People who have lived in the greater metropolitan LA area get used to the lunacy of one car, one rider, day in, day out for long, long commutes.

Try New York City to see how well interconnected public transportation works. Most people do not own cars, but if they do they often garage them out of the city.

it is totally freeing not to own a car--and far, far cheaper.

I'm for the foothill goldline extension..

I will ride is run by the p.r. firm hired by the Construction Authority. When this was exposed on a local blog "Albert" (the guy paid to create the hype this editorial lauds) made all sorts of excuses and claims that if I was proponent would make my head hang in shame.

http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/05/14/welcome-...

The great powers behind this project are shameless and seem unable to admit the projected ridership is pitiful while the cost (at least 1.5 BILLION to get it to Claremont) is a bit much. Yes, it will get to Azusa but despite not because of the folks pushing this sow's ear...

This line needs to completed all the way to Ont. Airport.

Forget going to LAX since in there great planning forgot to bring the line in to the Airport, stopped a mile short so the cabs could have the fare service instead.

Since the I-210 was extended to the I-15, there has been a huge increase of truck traffic that used to take the I-10 to Los Angeles. This only adds to the major congestion, detrimental air quality, and slow surface road detours through our SGV cities. At one time, discussion of the extension included the Ontario Airport (which would have made a whole lot of sense and still does).

So why does METRO ignore the San Gabriel Valley as a major artery and from receiving a fair share of the taxed funds from Measure R and Stimulus? Are they still stuck in the 20th century train of thought or are they ready for the 21st century train of transportation? According to President Obama, we’re “shovel ready.”

Golden Rails wrote:

This line needs to completed all the way to Ont. Airport.
Forget going to LAX since in there great planning forgot to bring the line in to the Airport, stopped a mile short so the cabs could have the fare service instead.

Well said!

I thought it was the high speed bullit train that was "shovel ready"
(in 2015)
what exactly is "shovel ready" then
Are there plans to go to the stadium

What happened with the vote?

Beware if you live in a single family residential area ANYWHERE NEAR a gold line station.

You are in for major high density development and traffic all near a "transit hub". Some of this is newly mandated by a transportation senate bill, some of it is probably already in your city's general plan.

My area of Pasadena is being transformed... right next to a single family area, you will have the ability to build mixed use, high density condos and office space up to 60 feet tall... yes 60feet, with only 5 foot setbacks from the curb.

They will tell you that all of these new residents in the high density areas will not drive their cars anywhere. They will walk to shopping, and take the Gold Line everywhere (even though it hardly goes anywhere).

It really depends on what your city has planned. Because of the changes in the housing market, most cities have way scaled back on the density. But even before, they were nothing like what Pasadena is doing. But Pasadena's a much bigger city than the other ones along gold line.