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I’m willing to bet Metro could easily shave 5, even 10 minutes off that trip if LADOT (and others) do the prudent thing, and give the trains absolute signal priority (drop gates like they do in Pasadena, so a train packed with a 100 people never has to wait for a couple dozen motorists at a red light.)

Downtown has a residential population of just 40,000, and that is including lots of people living in Skid Row flophouses who aren’t exactly the Trader Joe’s target demographic.

Retail stores downtown also have to deal with a higher rate of shoplifting. Grocery stores aren’t a high-margin business, so it’s harder for them than most to eat those losses.

It’s weird having to explain over and over that a project that is profitable in Pasadena or West LA might not work out in Downtown LA. Trader Joe’s isn’t holding some sort of crazy grudge.

The whole station needs to be redone. Metro needs to work with the property owners of the adjacent shopping center to make pedestrian access integrated with the station itself (Hell that whole shopping center needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt into something more pedestrian friendly.) The blue line platform needs canopies to shade riders (really all blue line stations need this) and TAP machines need to be placed near the platforms rather than its current and confusing layout (I TAP at a green line entrance than walk over to the blue line to board. This is legal but how many people are not aware and walk across the tracks to tap at the blue line gates?). And art-wise I think a lot of cool things can be done with this station given its under a freeway.

I work at the King/Drew hospital campus in this area so I’m at this station everyday. I don’t understand why idiots have to come on the comment page and chime in with dehumanizing "ghetto" comments. Most of you idiots don’t even come this way so fuck off with your comments. Metro is obligated to keep its stations well-lit, clean and accessible regardless if we’re talking about Pasadena or Watts.

@designmaven: I lived in center city Philadelphia for a decade. You are completely out of your mind if you think that is a nice place to live. New York costs 3 to 4 times more than downtown LA costs – and downtown Pasadena is beautiful, but the size of my thumbnail.

You are comparing Downtown LA to a complete armpit (Philly), an absurdly expensive wonderland for the rich (NYC), and a micro city (Pasadena).

In short, you are clueless.

south pasadena has a huge flock of noisy parrots.

@Boo: Yes, some people eventually move after 20 or 30 years, and others move to the cemetery when they die. And plus you get bad tenants and rent control makes it so difficult to get rid of them, that most landlords don’t bother. And so, buildings go downhill, rents stay low, attract more low paying tenants, and entire streets and neighborhoods go downhill/get stuck in a bad cycle. This all starts with one or two buildings with a majority of low paying tenants.

That’s one way it hurts the city. Another way it hurts the city is that it keeps property values low, keeping property tax revenue low even on properties that do change hands. Another way it hurts the city is that it entitles bad tenants to live in this city. If they try a lot of the crap they do here in Burbank or Pasadena they’ll get booted the minute their lease is up, if not sooner. We end up with all of them here in LA.

Nope, not seeing the "benefits" of rent control. 99% of the planet seems to manage just fine without it, and landlords try hard to keep their tenants happy there. Here the relationship is adversarial and the effects are only making LA worse off.

They are everywhere in the San Gabriel Valley, especially the Pasadena/Arcadia/San Marino area.

We’ve had them in South Pasadena for at least 20 years. We even nicknamed our softball team the Wild Parrots.

They have been in Pasadena for years. Story I’ve always heard is a pet shop in Arcadia burned down in the 50s and they escaped and got their freak (beak) on.

Pasadena/Caltrans NEEDs to put that Gold line rail underground
whoever planned that street crossing at Del Mar and a couple others should be boiled in oil