Ethan Elkind, a rail expert and director of the climate program at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, said that a variety of political and logistical factors slowed attention to it: a focus on downtown transit; opposition to high-capacity transit in the San Fernando Valley; and geological challenges in the Sepulveda Pass.
“It’s a lot of land. And the more land you have to go through, the more expensive it is, the more logistically challenging it is,” Elkind said.
