A map of Measure R results

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Here's a Google map that I quickly constructed showing the Measure R results by city, according to data from the Los Angeles County Registrar. You can click on the map to make it larger and play around with zooming in and out.

As I posted earlier, MetroriderLA posted a nice spreadsheet of the results, based on the registrar's numbers, and I used that to make the map.

I'm interested to know what you think it shows. Keep in mind that in nearly every city in the county a majority of voters approved Measure R. But in many outlying areas or some bedroom communities, Measure R had difficulty securing passage.

Note: the map is based on returns through early Wednesday, so it doesn't include the about 600,000 absentee and provisional ballots the Registrar says still remained to be counted.

--Steve Hymon

 

Comments

[David Bradley in SoPas]

Looks like J in Pasadena is the ignorant, misinformed and nonsensical one here.

You forget that the key demogrpahic of BRU's strategy is South LA, but do you know what other event possibly trumped and carried those "Yes" for Measure R votes. It's the County Supervisor race in which both candidates enthusiastically supported Measure R which cancelled out whatever rhetoric spewed by the BRU and the others.

Also those residents see every day how effeicent and reliable the Blue and Green Lines are over the crowded buses they are currently on to reach destinations and jobs quickly and easily so that they can pay rent, save money on not insuring and operating a car that would go towards other small leiserly investments or even towards a new home.

Even the risk of those deaths are different from the risks they have every time they leave home because they have a greater chance of being killed in a gang related incident than by the Light Rail.

J in Pasadena really shows his ignorance when he neglects that facts that this is a more progressive sales tax because the neccessities of life (Food, Shelter, bills and transportation) aren't subject to the sales tax.
Lower income people will have a smaller pot of disposable income thus they will pay the least on the tax compared to someone with more disposable income (middle Class persons like myself) who buys the big flat screen TV's, purchase a new car/motorcycle or boat every year or goes clothes shopping every week.

[J in Pasadena]

> "This clearly shows that minority and low-income areas in Los Angeles understand and value the need for transit ..."

You my friend are ignorant, misinformed and nonsensical. What it means is that people are so desperate that they will drive nails into their head to get better transit solutions. It also means that MTA's illegal misappropriation of public funds for propaganda and brainwashing was a dreadful success. Perhaps the vote would be different if "minority and low-income areas" were straightforwardly informed by MTA that their Blue Line -- the deadliest commuter rail line in the country -- was responsible for the careless and ignorant deaths of hundreds of friends and neighbors. Voters also "chose" to raise their taxes for 30 years in a clearly regressive scheme. This isn't the success of openness and understanding, its the triumph of Soviet style management over an underfunded opposition and a hurtful blow to the people who need MTAs help most. Not an endorsement, but a coup.

[Gokhan]

-- Communities say take a hike to Fix Expo, Bus Riders Union, and Gloria Molina --

There have been two phony community organizations and a politician who have used the race card to promote their hidden agendas. Their argument has been that Metro is racist and their latest scheme, Measure R, is racist and unfair to their minority communities.

The map clearly shows that virtually every city with a large minority/low-income population supported Measure R with a 2/3 majority. The cities where Measure R failed were almost all affluent and white populations, such as South Bay, Pasadena, and the 210 corridor.

This clearly shows that minority and low-income areas in Los Angeles understand and value the need for transit, and they don't agree with the phony community organizations such as Fix Expo and Bus Riders Union or the politician who uses the race card against transit -- Gloria Molina.

By voting with a 2/3 majority for Measure R, the minority and low-income communities not only made a strong statement for transit but also asked Fix Expo, Bus Riders Union, and Gloria Molina to stop being a nuisance and step down for good.

[lsm]

Both the spreadsheet and map are interesting, thanks for posting them. Before even seeing the votes in specific communities, I felt heartened that (pending provisional and late absentee ballots) more than 2/3 of voters county-wide had the foresight to raise a tax even during a financial scare. Looking at the specific communities' votes, however, makes me even more hopeful. Gated communities with few public roads, outlying unincorporated areas with spotty public transit service, a city on an island with no public transit connection to the mainland county and cities where regional demagogues ranted that they were being robbed blind by the rest of the county all voted at least a majority and many at least two-thirds for Measure R. This suggests the voters are out in front of some of our more parochial officials; the voters understand we are an interconnected county and have voted to thrive together rather than heed shameful calls to sink separately.