Just Think How Popular The Grove Station Will Be

REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING a better Los Angeles rail system: 1. A map. 2. A set of markers. A nice set, of course. Maybe Crayolas. 3. $38 billion. Continuing to cure LA's 20th-century transportation hangover with the most robust 19th-century treatments, The Transit Coalition offers this fancy hand drawing of 11 possible train lines. These new or improved lines, given an ideal political climate obtainable only through a Stargate, would be complete by 2026. Sure, the map has been posted more than a year. But I still admire its judicious use of graph paper, its willingness to ignore the pillars still marking the Red Car right-of-way across the LA River, and its ability to get me from Atwater Village to Glendale Galleria in only two stops. Long live the imaginary LA grid.