Beverly Hills has opted out of the project from the beginning. Going from right to left, we start with Beverly Hills, where residents have claimed they really support transit, as long as it doesn’t run at-grade or below its streets.
405 freeway express bus lane full#
The full text of Epstein’s letter can be found after the Brentwood Community Council letter after the jump. For example, instead of seeing the bus lanes as a barrier to car traffic, as a community leader, you could promote greater use of public transportation by encouraging religious school families to commute by bus. Your opposition manifests a level of old school Westside thinking about mobility in LA that I would have hoped had long since died. Every community along Wilshire needs to be part of the solution, including Brentwood and the Condo Canyon, or there is no solution. Your opposition to Metro’s plans for the BRT through Brentwood says to the community, yes we support bus rapid transit so long as it is not in our backyard. Huffington Post columnist Joel Epstein blasts back at the Neighborhood Council in an open letter addressed to his rabbi who has aligned himself with the opponents of the bus-only lanes west of the 405. So much for Westsiders wanting better transit options.īut not all Brentwood residents agree that removing “their” section of Wilshire Boulevard is a good idea.
Except the areas in blue have either opted out or are pressuring the Metro Board for an exclusion. It contains all of the areas of Wilshire Boulevard that residents want excluded from the popular project that would set aside a travel lane for buses and bikes from Downtown L.A. It’s official, many Westside neighborhood leaders really don’t want bus-only lanes.Īfter reading a letter from the Brentwood Community Council, which can be read after the jump, exhorting residents to protest the inclusion of Wilshire Bus-Only lanes in the area “West of the 405,” I made the above map.
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