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As we’ve seen, transit works best where there are many destinations along something that feels like a straight line. One particularly tricky thing transit needs to do is pass through major destinations (downtowns, campuses, medical centers, and other activity centers) in the middle of the line without being slowed down so much that longer trips through those points no longer find the service useful. We need to run fast through those intermediate centers while still serving them.
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In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis, Los Angeles, like much of the United States, saw heavy service cuts, and the dire condition of the California state budget warns us to expect more cuts to public services. So, it might be fairer to say that the debate about major construction funding is over but a debate about adequate operating funds remains. But in many ways, the struggle over operating funds is also about street space. Faster and more reliable operations are cheaper to operate, so transit lanes—which would make the Rapids much faster and more reliable—would allow a fixed operating budget to run higher frequencies on more lines.
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Walker, J. (2012). On the Boulevard. In: Human Transit. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-174-0_15
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