[SGVLUG] Ride to SCALE tomorrow morning?

[Matthew Campbell]

Hey Mike, we missed you at SCALE!!!!

Did you get much snow in Nashville?

Matt


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*Matthew Campbell*
Storage Solution Consultant
Storage Design and Engineering

*Kaiser Permanente*
IMG-Systems Integration
99 S. Oakland
Pasadena, CA 91101

626-564-7228 (office)
8-338-7228 (tie-line)
818-314-9897 (mobile phone)
Green Center 3-North, 031W29
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Michael Shulman
<michael.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> There's been a lot of discussion around putting green line station in
> LAX, but they elected to go with a people mover instead for a variety
> of reasons. The two that immediately come to mind are:
>
> 1) It would make LAX a terminus for the Green Line, similar to the
> Blue Line in Chicago which ends in Ohare. The current plan is for the
> Green Line to continue north, and doing so with a stop in the airport
> would be extremely costly and inefficient for everyone not going to
> the airport.  The other option would be a split terminus, similar to
> the green line in Chicago, which would be confusing for commuters and
> would require a higher number of trains to run
>
> 2) The people mover is actually needed because LAX lacks an internal
> transit system. It's not particularly feasible for a pedestrian to
> walk between certain terminals, and the existing inter terminal bus
> system would not handle the extra people well. It would also make for
> a MUCH more confusing experience for commuters.
>
> When I lived in Pasadena, I made use of the LAX Flyaway -- just take
> the gold line down to Union station and catch a bus for $7. The entire
> trip took somewhere about 1.25 hours, which seemed to be less than if
> I dealt with driving to LAX, figured out parking, and took the shuttle
> from parking.  For this conference it's not particularly convenient
> due to the hours.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Dustin Laurence
> <dllaurence at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > On 02/21/2014 10:53 AM, Henry B Hotz wrote:
> >
> >> Don't get me wrong, I'm glad *a* public transit system exists, but how
> >> long does all this take?
> >
> >
> > Public transit in LA has always taken me far longer than a car trip, even
> > with parking and logistics on the end. Maybe twice the time if you can
> use
> > the train directly, and three or four times if you take a bus? Not sure.
> I
> > avoid it except for situations like avoiding parking a car for a long
> period
> > at the airport when I don't have a ride to get there.
> >
> >
> >> (Also, why doesn't Metrorail get you all the way to the airport?
> >
> >
> > I once observed the same thing--logic would dictate a train station built
> > into the airport itself. believe I was told that the reason is protection
> > for the vanpool industry. Governments don't make decisions based on the
> > utility of you little people, the make decisions based on the utility of
> > businesses big enough or well-connected enough to lobby effectively, and
> > local politics seems to have dictated the particular situation in LA.
> >
> > Dustin
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------
> Regards,
> Michael Shulman
> michael.shulman at gmail.com
> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity.
>
>
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