Scrambled priorities

They're still talking about the mythical future subway to the sea, The Times' Steve Hymon reports. During breakfast this time -- overcooked bacon, undercooked eggs with a side of home fries. A hundred or so developers and politicians and other interested parties, seated in a Westwood high-rise with million-dollar views of the very congestion that subway would fix.

So what happened? Not much.

County Supe Zev Yaroslavsky says he's all for it but doubts voters want to foot the bill. "Slim to none" is how he rates those odds. And Jaime de la Vega (he's Antonio Villaraigosa's deputy mayor for transportation) would say only that his boss was thinking about it.

So that's where we stand on the subway to the sea. Or where we sit, when trapped in the Gordian knot of Westside traffic. Your politicians are thinking about it.

Reassuring, no?

-- Veronique de Turenne