Metro Rail
Mark Stein’s article (“Lake Project Shows How Metro Rail Can Take a Soaking,” July 28) underscores the numerous budgetary and regulatory hurdles that the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTC) must surmount in order to build one of the best and most needed rail lines in the country. Just as important as the need for rail lines, however, is the county’s responsibility for making improvements to neighborhoods that have been left out of receiving their fair share of services.
The MacArthur Park rail project provides a perfect setting to achieve both a sound transportation alternative and neighborhood revitalization. There we have a necessary rail project that will act as the backbone for an integrated rail system countywide. In the process of completing the project, the improvements made to the park will revitalize the surrounding area.
County residents have voted to invest their tax dollars in a long-term transportation strategy that will help clean the air and decrease congestion on our streets and highways. That investment means that the streets and neighborhoods through which the rail projects will run will also be enhanced. The LACTC is committed to making the taxpayers’ investment in transportation pay off for the neighborhoods too.
NEIL PETERSON, Executive Director, LACTC
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