DOWNTOWN Aaron Velick has dreams of one day having the ability to leave Santa Monica on a weekday during the congestion-packed hours of 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Ocean Park resident said he almost never leaves the city during weekday evenings, comparing the I-10 Freeway to a parking lot.
He might just have the chance to leave home when the Exposition Light Rail comes to the Westside in the next six years, giving locals another option to travel from Downtown Santa Monica to Downtown Los Angeles, bypassing the traffic in between.
“I’m trapped here,”Velick said on Tuesday.“I can’t go east. “I would like to sit in the light rail and see all of the people stopped in the parking lot,”Velick said of his vision to ride the light rail while watching the congestion on the freeway.
Santa Monica residents got a sneak peek at plans to extend the light rail line from Culver City to the terminal on Colorado Avenue during an informal public input session hosted by the Exposition Construction Authority on Tuesday at the Crossroads School.
The purpose of the workshop was to let the public share
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 3, 2008. Read the original PDF.