As a Westside homeowner who does live in close proximity to the Exposition rail corridor, I attended the public meeting held on the subject this past week. While it is true that the majority of those attending opposed the prospect of a light rail public transit system, there had to be some 30% or so who wanted to hear the other side.
As it turned out, only "experts" who could lambaste fixed rail systems were invited. As for the politicians, Zev Yaroslavsky and Nate Holden played to the crowed, insisting that the citizens of Los Angeles County (this is under county jurisdiction, not city) can't afford such a system and that it would harm the residential neighborhoods which border it.
