The Slow and Glorious Death of America's Worst School System
reason.com
reason.com
The short version is that they surveyed ridership on the new line a couple months after it opened, and claimed that actual ridership fell short of the transit agency's estimates. The article also complains about long delays. This is, of course, very silly because two months is not very long to work out all the bugs in a large system, nor is it enough time for people to adjust their commute patterns to the new option. I used to commute on this train a few times per week, and service delays were more or less eliminated by September 2012.
Now, two years after the line opened, actual ridership in 2014 (30k people per weekday)[1] is well on track to hit the projected ridership estimates for 2030 (36k people per weekday)[2].
This sort of shoddy (and, dare I say ideologically-motivated?) reporting makes me tend to doubt the veracity of everything else they publish, especially after Reason doubled-down in a rebuttal[3].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_Line_%28Los_Angeles_Metro%...
[2] http://backup.buildexpo.org/phase2/Phase%202%20FEIR%20Docume...
[3] http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/08/trainspotters-deriving-num...