Gold Line Complaints Are Way Off Track

Re “A Perch High Above Cars, but Not Noise,” by Steve Lopez (April 16) and “Gold Line Train Station Gives Users No Comfort” (letters, April 20): I have been riding the Gold Line to and from L.A. since it opened. I have never experienced the grave concerns that some riders, as well as Lopez, experienced. As a matter of fact, I love the Gold Line. It is much better than waiting on a street corner for a bus (sometimes for over an hour). It runs every 10 minutes during rush hours, every 12 minutes at midday and every 20 minutes at night, so you aren’t waiting on the platforms more than a few minutes. The traffic isn’t so bad that it blasts out your eardrums, and the air is no worse to breathe than everyday L.A. air.

I get so tired of nit-picky complaints. Instead of worrying about their “worldly” problems, why don’t these writers remember that there are people who don’t have a warm meal or a roof over their heads? How would that feel in the heat or rain, compared with a little wait for the Gold Line?

Gino Pasquale

Arcadia