Toss in the fact that DTLA is NOT the job center that those other downtowns are, and how can it be when the tallest skyscraper- 65 stories-west of the Mississippi is half-empty?Ĭonsequently the beyond asinine fixation with our local politicians in trying to turn DTLA into the Upper East Side of the west coast is also stupid, which pretty much describes the liberals who've been running the state for over 35 years. 4% of DTLA workers that's the 25 words or less answer as to why neither PHX nor LA needs a subway. Over 30% of the folks who work in Manhattan use transit to get to work, vs. and I can see the traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway from my home daily, and rest assured that even a briskly-growing city such as Phoenix as opposed to a city such as LA with microscopic population growth most assuredly doesn't NEED a multi-billion or even a trillion dollar (or more) subway, since your politicians are a hell of a lot smarter than their California counterparts and know a boondoggle-in-the-making when they see one.Īnyone whose IQ is higher than their shoe size knows that the #1 reason why a subway either in Phoenix or LA would be indefensibly asinine as opposed to the packed-and-then-some subways serving SF, NYC, Philly, DC, Chicago or Boston, not to mention cities with internationally renowned world-class public transit systems such as Toronto can be described in something which LA & PHX don't have but which all of those other cities do have, and that is DENSITY!!!! I live 5 minutes away from Wilshire Blvd. which would miraculously alleviate the day-long parking lot conditions of LA's busiest thoroughfare their ideas are total hogwash, just as our tree-hugging Governor's fixation for his moderate-speed choo-choo from LA to the SF Bay area which is guaranteed to be a first-class money loser since the hilarious ridership projections are downright absurd not to mention insulting. It would be equally as idiotic for Phoenix to build a subway system as it certainly is for the union-dominated politicians here in LA to tout the feasibility (only in their dreams) and super-critical necessity of a subway down Wilshire Blvd.

Hogwash tempe