Imagining Red Car Routes

By Eric Richardson
Published: Tuesday, September 06, 2005, at 02:22PM

Picturing Red Car Routes Eric Richardson [Flickr]

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — I took a little time away from the computer this weekend and watched college football (it was a nice start for the Trojans), so hopefully that’s enough of an excuse for why I’m posting today about happenings last Wednesday.

In any case, Wednesday morning the CCA hosted a meeting of the Red Car Advisory Board I first mentioned back in June. The CRA’s feasibility study is moving along, and this time around the board was brought together to do a little prioritization of characteristics and brainstorm potential routes. The consultants didn’t have the scoring all totaled for the first exercise by the time the meeting was out, so most of interest were the route ideas.

The non-consultants were split up into three groups and given three miles to work with. Pictured is Brigham Yen of DCBID, presenting his group’s created route: a backwards S stretching from South Park to Bunker Hill. Common to all three groups’ ideas were common elements such as LA Live, Broadway, and Bunker Hill.

Some paperwork from the study should be coming out shortly and showing up somewhere on the CRA’s Flash-ridden site. Outreach meetings should also start happening sometime soon.


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David Kennedy writes:

Please keep us informed about these meeetings. More details, please! Timelines, budgets, routes, opportunites for public input. Keep it coming! (Are there any other sources for information?) I think this project has enormous potential for enhancing the quality of life downtown for residents and making it easier to visit downtown. Hopefully, the Fashion District won’t be left out. I really look forward to the day when I can just hop on a trolley up Broadway/ Spring/Hill to get to the Grand Central Market.

# on Sep.07.2005 AT 05:06 AM
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alan writes:

OT: Oh, but it was a sad and messy start for UH :-/ Not that a win was expected, but a tighter spread would have been nice.

# on Sep.07.2005 AT 10:14 AM
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e; writes:

alan: This is on topic… I mentioned the game. I have no pity for Hawaii. I thought they played a bit classless when they came here two years ago (their 1st string throwing into the endzone at the end of the game against our 3rd string), so I was really hoping we’d run it up on them. We sort of did, but we could have gone a lot higher. -e;

# on Sep.07.2005 AT 11:57 AM
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Dana Gabbard writes:

Victor Franco of the Central City Association spoke at our Aug. 13 Southern California Transit Advocates meeting about this proposal. My sense is that everything is very tentative. They seem to have dropped the recreating the Red Car angle. Franco is big on the Portland streetcars built by Skoda and mostly built with private funds from adjacent businesses and parking lot monies–he sees that as a possible model to copy since MTA et al are unlikely to fund this.

# on Sep.09.2005 AT 05:06 PM
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Eric Richardson writes:

Dana: That’s very true… One of the big talking points to date has been finding local funding sources to avoid having to look elsewhere for monies. Especially federal money would be nice to avoid, since it brings with it all manner of requirements. I don’t think anyone’s abandoned the historic car idea, but it’s definitely an attribute whose costs and benefits need to be weighed. -e;

# on Sep.09.2005 AT 06:17 PM

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