This is a bad idea for LA. It is tricky even in NYC where a large number of people use transit. If you do this in LA the result will be voters vote anyone who proposed this out of office and then the new people not only eliminate the toll, they will be transit haters who will kill useful transit along the way. NYC is risking this same thing, but it is judged likely that enough people either don’t care or see positive effects that they can pull this off - I don’t think LA is in that situation.
If you want to do something in LA you need to start by making the transit system useful. There are a lot of projects underway, ensure they complete. There are a lot of proposed projects, select the good ones (many are bad - even the projects underway are not all good but sunk costs are enough that you may as well complete them now). Make sure costs don’t get out of control so you can afford to build and run more. Don’t let transit become about something other than getting people around LA (a few years ago the LA transit commissioner was asking US congress to put a train test track in LA for all the jobs it would create - this might be a good thing but it is a bad thing for the LA transit commissioner to be interested in because it is distracting from their real job)
This is a bad idea for LA. It is tricky even in NYC where a large number of people use transit. If you do this in LA the result will be voters vote anyone who proposed this out of office and then the new people not only eliminate the toll, they will be transit haters who will kill useful transit along the way. NYC is risking this same thing, but it is judged likely that enough people either don’t care or see positive effects that they can pull this off - I don’t think LA is in that situation.
If you want to do something in LA you need to start by making the transit system useful. There are a lot of projects underway, ensure they complete. There are a lot of proposed projects, select the good ones (many are bad - even the projects underway are not all good but sunk costs are enough that you may as well complete them now). Make sure costs don’t get out of control so you can afford to build and run more. Don’t let transit become about something other than getting people around LA (a few years ago the LA transit commissioner was asking US congress to put a train test track in LA for all the jobs it would create - this might be a good thing but it is a bad thing for the LA transit commissioner to be interested in because it is distracting from their real job)