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Post by Gokhan on Mar 4, 2008 21:36:57 GMT -8
Please see the presentation for the results of the preliminary screening. Several options are included, including at-grade and subway alignments. Please e-mail your supporting comments and your favorite alignment alternative (out of the proposed ones) to Metro. This project won't be built, given the strong competition with other projects, unless there is strong community support.
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Post by James Fujita on Mar 5, 2008 15:48:22 GMT -8
already done ;D asked them a few days ago to build the mostly-underground alternative with the awesome underground Little Tokyo station: Alternative 6. if not 6, then any alternative that preserves the existing station. there'll be an editorial column in the Gardena Valley News soon asking the residents of Gardena to ask for a Little Tokyo station. (they have a huge Japanese-American population; they should care about this stuff, too!) also, note that there's a phone number that you can call as well. www.metro.net/projects_programs/connector/contact_us.htm
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Post by Gokhan on Mar 5, 2008 16:17:55 GMT -8
Why not contact the Japanese Embassy as well and ask them to weigh in and even have the Japanese Government contribute to the cost?
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Post by James Fujita on Mar 5, 2008 23:29:21 GMT -8
Why not contact the Japanese Embassy as well and ask them to weigh in and even have the Japanese Government contribute to the cost? there's a move that's sure to backfire. J-As don't like being associated with Japanese-from-Japan. ( I don't care, I'm hapa and my father is a "Shin-Isei." ) but, a lot of older Japanese-Americans don't like the degree to which J-Town has been "invaded" by Japan, Inc. the odds of the Japanese government contributing to an American project are an extreme long-shot, but the odds of a backlash against the idea are high. even asking a Japanese transit company to help would be risky. the "buy American" crowd would kill us.
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Post by kenalpern on Mar 6, 2008 6:48:09 GMT -8
I think this needs to be a local endeavour, funded and promoted only by local residents, just as any other neighborhood effort in the city/county of L.A.
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