Beverly Hills Subway Extension Needs to Go Under 90210 High School, Metro Says: District Blasts Earthquake Report

• The subway is a total waste of taxpayer money. It's hardly going to put a dent in the massive amount of traffic on the West Side. By the time the subway is complete, LA population will have increased by another 30%. LA is a car city, and will always be one.

• 1. Who cares what excuse they are giving now for it being "bent", it is obviously the better stop for the most ridership and that should be the only concern. 2. What commercial developer isn't connected or a friend of Villaraigosa, or anybody else on the City Counsel. Any other developer would be friendly with the City's political environment and if it wasn't a friend of Villaraigosa it just be a friend of someone else. The weak writers and pretend journalists love bringing these types of things up when it really doesn't matter. I guess I will have to go back through every article you have ever written to ensure that you disclosed all the connected relationships for every development you have harped on in the past just to make sure you are being consistent.

• The facts are the facts. (And I'm not anti-subway, just pro-fact). -The line is being "bent." One look at the map will tell you that. Santa Monica was the primary route and Constellation was a secondary consideration. -If this is about picking up the most people along the route, so be it. Then why is Metro saying it's about earthquake safety? They're saying that, not me. -The stop is under or almost under a proposed development by a friend of Villaraigosa. Make of that what you will, but don't kill the messenger. -Beverly Hills isn't anti-subway. It's anti-subway-under-their-high school. The district, city and community seem to support the original Santa Monica route which, by the way, would have a few riders too being pretty much adjacent to the city's main shopping and dining district.

• LA Weekly's continued slant in coverage of the Subway to The Sea is a tremendous disservice to the community it claims to provide reliable, applicable coverage to. The Subway to The Sea should pass through Century City, then back to Westwood Village to capture the true ridership and potential convenience for its users. Beverly Hills Schools is just pissed because that is what they have time to be, to be pissed. Ridership of the subway system will only increase with generations, causing dramatic shifts in our yet-born children's' commute patterns, which no study can predict, and desired living locations (who knows, maybe Downtown will benefit the most from this forcing Santa Monica landlords to finally make improvements to their apartments to attract renters - evening-out rents and housing prices throughout the City, and unlocking the choke-hold the 405 has on the Westside). Opponents to this improvement are extremely short sided and have no interest in leaving the City better than how they found it for future residents - it's just about them (Me, me, me).

• Ha Ha! That information that MTA was supposedly sitting on has been publicly available for a long time.  If Ms. Korbatov would have made an effort to get off of her behind, she would have discovered that it is readily available from the USGS.  It's even available as a Google Earth overlay!

• It doesn't make sense for the stop to be on Santa Monica next to a golf course when the center of Century City is Avenue of the Stars/Constellation. The line hasn't been "bent" for development. The station should be located where it will get the most ridership. I'm getting kind of sick of the L.A. Weekly's consistent anti-transit reporting.

• Metro is right.  The tunnel should go directly into the heart of Century City, where the jobs are.  The irrational fears of safety problems have been neutralized by facts, logic and science. No subway tunnel has ever caused safety problems at the surface.  Subways are incredibly sturdy in earthquakes.  And this tunnel, between 70 and 100 feet below the surface, has plenty of buffer earth to make any terrorist attack infeasible. If Beverly Hills is adamantly against a subway, I could also support an elevated train through the Beverly Hills city limits.  How does that grab ya?

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