Southern California spends a few bucks on transit...

[canuck]

From that blog post [[emphasis is mine):
SCAG is the Southern California Association of Governments and all they have accomplished here is the approval of a "plan". Too many people, including the blogger, incorrectly equate a plan with action, when in fact one is simply a prerequisite for the other. Words are cheap, results are dear.

The blogger even has the impudence to "point fingers" by taking a shot at Washington over their inaction, while then going on to confuse the approval of a plan with actual results.

Southern California is still a long way from actually spending "a few bucks on transit".

True, it is just a plan, but it is still something. They have light rail, a subway, and a relatively good bus system in L.A. San Diego is pretty spread out too, light rail might do the trick there too. The fact that they want more options is a healthy choice.

[j to the jeremy]

True, it is just a plan, but it is still something. They have light rail, a subway, and a relatively good bus system in L.A. San Diego is pretty spread out too, light rail might do the trick there too. The fact that they want more options is a healthy choice.

I don't care if they have the money, Cali is broke all the time and still passes legislation that they know they should, and guess what, sometimes it really gets done. I'd rather have that than a gov't like we have, where everyone is too scared to do anything that couldn't be done in 1950

[canuck]

I don't care if they have the money, Cali is broke all the time and still passes legislation that they know they should, and guess what, sometimes it really gets done. I'd rather have that than a gov't like we have, where everyone is too scared to do anything that couldn't be done in 1950

Yes, by making these decisions, they also are open to choices along the way.
There is money out there you know as well as I do. They are also competing with Texas cities sprawl. A lot of businesses have left California for Texas, but better designed urban areas will be the deciding factor for investors in relocating companies as time goes by, and the cost of fossil fuels rise.

Both Texas and California have high speed rail in the works also.

[DetroitPlanner]

Its not "just a plan". CalTRANS has the funding to work on it. We don't have any funding mechanisms here. Heck we can't even get a coordinated transit authority through state legislature. Plans need political and financial support to become active.