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# Someone’s keeping track
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/someones-keeping-track-editor/
- Published: 2007-02-09T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:01:42.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Mark Shepherd Santa Monica*

According to your article (“Is light rail good for Santa Monica?” Feb. 7, page 8), the Exposition project “will provide 87.6 miles of transit service from Downtown Los Angeles to Culver City.”

Eighty-seven miles? Wow. I guess I shouldn’t complain that my commute downtown usually takes a half hour.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 9, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)