Thread started by bentstrider at 08.21.09 - 1:28 pm

from having a Metrolink.
Unofficial sources and various message boards I've gone to on this subject have said that while LACMTA actually thought about putting one there in the past, BNSF and UPRR have collectively told them to piss off.
Apparently, the good 'ole boys in Ft Worth(BNSF) and Omaha(UPRR) think the 15 freeway is suitable enough up here and that everyone has consistent access to a motor vehicle.
It's even more fucked up that they give the extremely unreliable, Southwest Chief 1-2 hour wait time while going down or coming up through the Pass.

Evidently, I later found out that a push to have a Metrolink line to go up to a desert city like Lancaster was ultimately done after how much of a bottleneck the Northridge Quake caused on the 14.
They realized train tracks could be easily cleared and repaired after a major disaster like an earthquake much quicker than a freeway.

I just wonder if this is what it will take to finally get UPRR and BNSF to pull the collective stick out of their ass, and utilize that third line option they talked about so much.
Hell, even a puny disaster like a speedracer going over the guardrail is enough to slow traffic on the 15 for 2-4 hours.

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It's a big conspiracy to keep you in the desert.



la duderina
08.21.09 - 1:32 pm

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They must've foresaw this about a hundred years before I was born.

With all the LA-basin parolees being dumped up here thanks to the bus-vouchers, I'm wondering when everyone else living up here will bone out and wall it from behind?

I could care less if the Department of the Navy dumps the Chocolate Mtn Gunnery Range and annexes the Victor Valley area into the Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Corps AGCC.



bentstrider
responding to a comment by la duderina
08.21.09 - 1:59 pm

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I am so confused, but I like it.



jonnyboy
08.21.09 - 2:02 pm

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Only reason I'm saying a Metrolink option would be good for the Victor Valley is to alleviate the horrendous amount of traffic one would see going up and down the Cajon Pass any day of the week.
The grade that the trains take through the Pass is alot less steeper than what the auto traffic uses.
Couple this with the fact that a good, 60-70% of everyone living up here are former residents of a city "down-the-hill" and still maintain employment down there.




bentstrider
responding to a comment by jonnyboy
08.21.09 - 2:12 pm

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