Los Angeles CityWatch reports on a landmark decision regarding the MTA/Expo Line Construction
Authority's two proposed Expo Light Rail Line crossings next to Dorsey
HS and Foshay Learning Center.
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Judge Kenneth Koss ruled MTA's plans unsafe, and the community and LAUSD's safety concerns valid. The decision is a tentative decision that will either be adopted or amended by the full CPUC commission on November 21.
At the evidentiary hearing three expert witnesses testified on behalf of the community group including Professor Najmedin Meshkati, an internationally renowned expert in human risk analysis and creator of USC Transportation System safety program, Ed Ruszak a nationally-renowned expert in traffic impacts and vehicular accident causation, and West Point graduate and retired Major Russ Quimby, who for 22 years led the rail and rail-transit accident investigation group at the National Transportation Safety Board before he retired in 2007.
Quimby testified that the street-level crossing 10 feet from the property line of Dorsey HS, where every day afterschool hundreds of students flood the narrow sidewalks, left a high risk of catastrophic accident.
