Bradley Calls for Free Freeway Tow Service
Mayor Tom Bradley urged county transportation officials Wednesday to adopt his plan to use $8 million from the county’s new half-cent sales tax to fund a free freeway tow service patrol to relieve congestion.
But, at the behest of Supervisor Pete Schabarum, the joint panel of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and Rapid Transit District Board of Directors postponed a decision on the proposal and sent it back to committee for further study.
Robert Cashin, a county transportation director who outlined details of the plan to the panel, predicted that the patrol would reduce the time it takes to clear a disabled vehicle from the freeway from 24 minutes to 10 minutes.
When Schabarum questioned why only 150 miles of the 511 miles of freeway in the county would be served by the patrol, Cashin estimated that it would cost about $4 million more to increase the size of the service area to 260 miles.
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