Would You Pay $10.00 For A Non-Stop Bus Ride To Work? (ZD Says Enough People Would Say "Yes")

NON-STOP BUS ROUTES: Los Angeles is not New York and never will be New York. New York City is only 14 miles long and only about 7 miles wide. And you have million dollar a year CEOs taking the train from the suburbs into the City where they are only a hop, skip or a subway ride to their final destination.

The mass transit in Los Angeles is no where near (decades away) from being something that your average worker can actually consider as a practicle alternative to driving to and from work in the way it works for New Yorkers. (LA is simply too geographically large by comparison and wasn't built for the NYC lifestyle, but planned and zoned for just the oppoisite.)

AND NOW, City Council continues to approve high-density housing and commercial projects -- FULLY AWARE that they do not have the mass transit and things like subway to the sea are nothing more than campaign promises. We've all seen the LA Weekly article on (Dumb) "Smart Growth" where you had City planners and Councilmembers saying, "the plan is to have traffic become so bad, that people will jump out of their cars and onto the busses." Only problem is that they also admit there will be a gap/delay between the time traffic becomes unbearable (even more unbearable/really, really unbearable) and the time the mass transit lines will actually be built.

So we are headed for disater. Here is ONE solution Zuma Dogg thought of this morning while heavily medicating (Prop 215/S.B. 420):

NON-STOP BUS ROUTES: If you are wearing a suit and carrying a breifcase, there is no way you are riding on the busses being offered by the City and County. Even if you didn't mind the other people...it's too many stops (even the express busses) and the overall experience is very frustrating.

ZD feels these upscale people would be willing to pay $10 for a non-stop bus ride into Downtown (or wherever/longer distances). If you are driving, besides the gas money you will save, the aggrevation of driving in rush-hour traffic -- you also save parking. All things you save on with the regular express bus lines. But I don't think the current system is worth the aggrevation to most executives. But a non-stop. ZD would pay that for his trips to City Hall. And he thinks a lot of other people would, too. And profits could be used for additional traffic solutions. DO IT!

AND BY NOW YOU HAVE HEARD: LOL! Board of County Supervisors vote "No" on MTA half cent sales tax. MTA spokesperson says this WILL go to court because BOS was only supposed to approve of deny this based on procedural issues and was not about the worthiness of the tax, itself. What is interesting here is that all five Board of County Supervisors sit on the MTA board and this tax was approved for the ballot 9-2. So some folks changed their mind in the meantime. If MTA can't sue this thing back onto the ballot, it will appear on a separate ballot, but MTA feels (rightfully so) that that is confusing to voters.

ENCORE: The People LOVE Zuma Dogg and The Newsom's!!! The Clip of California's newsest love-trio has over 500 views in one day on YouTube, far surpassing that non-charismatic loser, Antonio Villaraigosa. Maybe ZD will head up to San Fran for a little public comment when LA City Council is on break.


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