What Would You Do With $100 Billion To Improve Transit?

"God just gave L.A. $100 billion to fix traffic. What would you do?"

Bart Reed, the Executive Director of The Transit Coalition, a L.A.-based transit advocacy group, lays out his vision for transit in Southern California if money wasn't an issue.

"The most ambitious item on the list is indeed the most obvious one: $10 billion to extend the Wilshire Boulevard subway to Santa Monica, with stops at Century City and UCLA. Another $7 billion would be used to create either a subway spur or a separate light rail line to connect the San Fernando Valley with LAX and Westwood."

"So long as the spending for automobile-based transportation remains lopsidedly greater than rail spending, we'll continue to promote the idea that California is one big suburb when, in fact, much of our state is urban. We cannot continue to pretend it is 1950, so we must explore a balanced and aggressive approach to ending this gridlock that has become the hallmark of modern-day Los Angeles."