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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by groby_b on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:47PM (#22269257)
What OP said. Just to throw out an example, if you want to get from Culver City (somewhat night-spotty place, and lots of new companies sprouting up) to Encino (somewhat affordable place on the other side of the hills, where rent won't completely kill you)?

That's a ~17 mile drive. Try take public transportation, plan for 2.5 hours or so. With a 20 minute walk in between the three buses.

That doesn't really qualify as public transportation.

Culver City to Santa Monica? It's 8 miles, of course it takes an hour. Using the expo line. Same for CC->Downtown LA.

The expo line is good. For a very limited set of destinations, and a very limited set of starting points. It's like saying "we shipped five pounds of flour to $POOR_NATION, why are people still hungry?"

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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by jppope on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:07PM (#22269529)
Yea but people in the rest of the country would be blown away by the travel times by car as well. Irvine to Santa Monica leaving at 7:30am is 2.5 - 3 hours. Total distance 45 Miles? You can drive from Kansas City to Omaha in roughly the same time
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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by cylentwolf on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:35PM (#22269888)
Yeah but you won't pass as many people. The density of SoCal is high but it is spread out which defeats public transportation. Maybe once we get some kind of automated bus system and bus lanes this could be less of a hassle but I doubt it.
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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by gamblor956 on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:46PM (#22273943)
Culver City to Santa movie is 15 to 20 min by rail.

Santa Monica is 45 to 55 min from downtown by rail, depending on game traffic.

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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by tomjakubowski on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:59PM (#22270220)
You're wildly exaggerating. It takes just about 20 minutes to get from Culver City to the end of the line in Santa Monica. It doesn't even take an hour to traverse the entire Expo Line between DTLA and Santa Monica, about fifty minutes.

If Metro were able to get traffic signal priority for Expo, traveling the whole line would be about 35 minutes.

Timetables: https://media.metro.net/documents/line-schedules/line-806_15...

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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by gamblor956 on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:48PM (#22273952)
You're being down voted by people with no actual experience using LA metro rail.

It does take a long time to get from Santa Monica to Pasadena by rail due to the multiple transfers. They're working to make that a single transfer and the new line alignments should start in 2 to 3 years.

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Re:LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in... by groby_b on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:59PM (#22270865)
... if you live close to the Expo line. That's the thing. The feeders don't exist.

Also, the travel times are as predicted by maps. And it matches my in-person experience. But I'm glad you told me my experiences are completely wrong.

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