Transportation Solutions

* Bob Rector makes some good points about the bureaucracy surrounding the implementation of transit solutions in the San Fernando Valley (“And Now for Some Good News--and a Colossal ‘If,’ ” Dec. 10). Nonetheless, he does not fully explore the one alternative that will get more people out of their cars and onto public transportation, extending the Metro Red Line west from North Hollywood.

Valley business and political leaders have missed the train on this one. Current nonusers of mass transit will only migrate if that transit is clean, convenient and timely. And that transit must be as seamless as possible.

I still cannot understand why we are pursuing the third-world solution of a busway for the Valley, while other areas of the city are slated for light rail and more subway. It’s an afterthought that is based far more on politics than science.

The best way our politicians could serve us is, for a change, to listen to their own transit planning experts and not the uninformed opinions of special-interest groups.

MICHAEL HIGBY

North Hollywood

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We have the rail corridor, we have the technology; the corporations have the money. So I still do not understand why we cannot build a monorail system on the freeway medians. Let the biggest corporations build the system, and they get all of the advertising rights.

It’s such a simple solution to our transportation problems, and if it takes 20 years to build, it will be in place when really needed.

JOE MOSES

Woodland Hills