Comments on Little Tokyo UnBlogged: A 5th Option?

This is a 50 to 100 year decision. And this optio...

2009-11-01T23:15:33.088-08:00

This is a 50 to 100 year decision. And this option will have short & medium term real estate savings plus long term operational cost savings - both for the system and for the neighborhood that also need to be considered.

(I would have responded earlier, but I've been...

2009-11-01T01:01:30.286-07:00

(I would have responded earlier, but I've been out of town in a place without [cheap] internet access)

It seems to me like there's an awful lot of IFs involved in this "Fifth Option"..... whether this would affect Nishi Hongwanji, for example; whether an underground station would allow trains to head both north and east; how badly would this would affect the Nikkei Center...

I've been operating until now on the assumption that an underground station and wye would be too difficult to engineer, too expensive and/or require too large a sacrifice from Nikkei Center...

The MTA could very well say that it's not possible, or at least too expensive to build. There's a lot of reasons why this might not work.

IF the MTA could squeeze an underground wye in to that location, more power to them.

However, if the MTA says no to the Fifth Option, I hope that people will be willing to accept the crossing.

This is good to hear. Metro may have dismissed th...

2009-10-29T10:56:20.441-07:00

This is good to hear. Metro may have dismissed this option prematurely. Let it be studied and costed-out, along with the other options.

Another bit of wordcrafting at LTCC: "...in f...

2009-10-27T16:48:46.437-07:00

Another bit of wordcrafting at LTCC: "...in favor of further exploration of the Underground..." replaces "continuing".