The Get LA Moving Plan (Presentation Today)

[damiengoodmon]

Just realized I posted it everywhere but here.



It's been an exciting couple of weeks for the Get LA Moving grassroots organization. Our long awaited website launch was complimented by a flattering and notable article in the Los Angeles Times that highlighted some aspects of my personal research efforts to devise the line alignments. But even more newsworthy is the remarkable voluntary contributions to the GLAM Plan by dozens of people who we are equally committed to devising solutions to our mobility crisis. Some individuals are just regular citizens with limited knowledge of transit and others are transit engineers and urban planners. Collectively, we have made the map better and the plan stronger.

The many sign-ups and offers to help following the article provide a great opportunity to take this discussion about how rail is our silver bullet into every corner of the county. Together we will demand our political leadership plan long-term and give Angelinos what we want and what we need to continue growing in a 21st century economy.

If you haven't yet, please officially sign-up for updates and tell your friends about GetLAMoving.com.

The website is one of many important resources in our effort, and eventually we would like to see it progress into an comprehensive activist-oriented tool that will allow us to capture and maximize the current desire by LA county residents to Get LA Moving. Our strategic web outreach plan is available for everyone to see on our blog, so please weigh in and tell us where you think there is room for improvement. Several important features on the existing site are not yet operational, so we're going to need the help of the many talented web developers who signed up to bring them to fruition.

The next Get LA Moving Plan Presentation: TODAY Saturday May 12 2:15 PM!

This Saturday at 2:15 pm I will present an updated version of the Get LA Moving Plan before the Southern California Transit Advocates monthly meeting on the 4th floor of Angelus Plaza in Downtown LA (255 S. Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90012). Please come to the meeting to see the presentation and engage in a healthy dialogue about the future of our region with some of the most seasoned mass transit advocates in Southern California.

All the best,
Damien Goodmon
Primary Author, Get LA Moving Plan
[e-mail]

[tonyw79sfv]

BTW, that map makes a great Windows/Mac desktop. I use it at my work (Sunset/Vermont). I have people asking me about it but I always had to break the bad news to the ones living in the Westside.

[jeisenbe]

I'd always wondered what the alignments for this old fantasy map would look like on a real map. It took some time to figure out (via reading all the descriptions on the archived website), but I think I made a fairly accurate version.

Google Map of Get LA Moving Plan from 2007: drive.google.com/open?id=1e4i5fjKQCv4aK0B6sBBz8PnScqc&usp=sharing

The comments on each line are from the Get LA Moving site (except those as noted from "editor", which are my own). The alignments are probably correct to within the nearest 1/4 mile. Stations marked with a question mark (?) may be up to 1/2 mile off.

See glam.fminus.com/ for a copy of the original site and details. Some of the line routings are not precisely known, but his is my best estimate of what Damien Goodmon intended at the time. This was originally available at getlamoving.com but that domain is no longer maintained.

[culvercitylocke]

my favorite part about Damien's map is that there is no Farmdale stop on the Expo Line as he envisioned it.

[jeisenbe]

Oct 24, 2017 19:06:23 GMT -8 culvercitylocke said:

my favorite part about Damien's map is that there is no Farmdale stop on the Expo Line as he envisioned it.

Ha! Now that's a sad, sad story. Cutting off your nose to spite your face: he got an extra at-grade stop added to the line, when he really wanted grade separation...

Still, I appreciated Damien's willingness to dream big, back when even the Measure M map seemed like a stretch to hope for.

[fissure]

Slauson and Manchester? You don't suppose he favors South LA over other parts of the city, do you? There's no sane way to advocate for a tighter spacing of east-west lines south of Expo than north of it.

[Philip]

Not to mention the fact that the 115, which serves Manchester, is not one of Metro's stars.
It barely cracks 15,000 daily riders, so why build a rail line there?

I suppose if it has the Red, Green, Pink, Bronze, Harbor, Silver, and Blue Lines feeding into
it, that would make a difference. Still, you'd need at least half (or more) of those lines to
exist first to justify a Manchester line.

Also, roughly half the line's destinations are reachable via the nearby Green, Pink, or
Harbor Lines already.

Damien's map is a joy to look at, but upon further inspection, does have flaws like this.