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To: MrLucky who wrote (473038)	2/20/2012 9:02:59 PM
From: SmoothSail	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 794033

By way of example, the City of L.A. began discussing high speed rail or a tube between downtown L. A. and LAX in 1961. Guess what? It never happened. Environmentalists, local communities, noise and cost. Wait a second: It did happen ... sort of. They put in the Green Line that connects to the Blue Line, wihch goes downtown. The Green Line runs from Norwalk to Redondo Beach - about 2 miles from the airport. Supposedly there's a bus you can then catch to the airport, but you're lucky if it ever goes by. In the original design, the line did go to LAX but the cab companies put up such a big stink that they altered the design and diverted it so it ended up 2 miles from the airport. Too far to walk and too short for a cab to be interested in picking you up. They say there's a daily ridership of 45,000, which is very hard to believe. There are 2 stations close to where I live. I never see anyone waiting for a train at one station and very few at the other, which is the end of the line.

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