>>2046012The line with a ridership of 22,000 people daily is sandwiched inside a 10-lane freeway, which leads to dark and unsafe-looking station entries and massive noise pollution on the platform. It's also light rail despite being fully grade-separated.
The line with a ridership of under 3,200 people daily had virtually no use before this month, as it didn't connect the airport directly, and it's still a glorified streetcar with median at-grade right of way and it will never offer a one seat ride from the airport to downtown LA.
The problem isn't too much infrastructure, the problem is that LACMTA don't know what the fuck they're doing, just like all other transit agencies west of Chicago. We need heavy rail to Santa Monica, the Orange Line needs to be heavy rail, the Silver Line needs to be preferably heavy rail, there should legitimately be no reason to ever build glorified trams in LA county.
Also, Union Station platforms look so basic that if it didn't have 12 tracks, I'd think it's my local railway station serving an area of maybe 5000 people. No wonder everyone takes the car when met with such hostile environments.
