WINDFALL: The county’s cash-starved Transportation Commission is...
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WINDFALL: The county’s cash-starved Transportation Commission is getting a $5-million loan from its counterpart in Los Angeles, thanks less to generosity than to a crackdown by federal officials. . . . L.A. County’s commission has been holding on to federal money for future projects, but the feds have insisted that the government’s money be spent. . . Orange County will put the loan into a road fund and repay it in the 1991-92 fiscal year.
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