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Conflict of interest on LACMTA Expo Line

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• Group FixExpo [1], created and headed by Damien Goodmon, is currently in a legal battle with the Expo Construction Authority [2], trying to stop the construction of the line (see, e.g., one of his latest legal filings [3], among the numerous).

• It is highly unethical for FixExpo to make edits on the LACMTA Expo Line article, given its direct legal interest and lawsuit against the Expo Construction Authority, who is constructing the light-rail line.

Cheviotla (talk) 17:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

All edits were factual, and attempted to address the clear bias in the page, and structure it better to make sense - and still I didn't go far enough. The only portion that should not have been included was the section about the Citizens' Campaign to Fix Expo Rail Line. And where is your document showing that Overland is 1500 per vehicle lane? It's not, and as shown above, Friends 4 Expo's own video shows it as such.

It's as inaccurate as the 20 minute estimation, shown in the station map from Downtown LA to Culver City. The front page of Expo's website: www.BuildExpo.org says it will be about 30 mins.

(Damienwg (talk) 00:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC))

Your name has been mentioned at the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard

Hello Damienwg. You are welcome to join the discussion there and give your own opinion. EdJohnston (talk) 20:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)