Los Angeles’ Transit Needs
Your article “County Moves to Unclog 1,000 Miles of Roads” (Nov. 16) highlights the advent of L.A.’s new Congestion Management Program (CMP). This program is an exciting new effort, built on significant local cooperation, to address our county’s mobility challenges through a holistic county wide planning process.
As you indicated, the CMP was part of the Proposition 111 increase in transportation funding, approved by the voters in 1990. It is important to recognize the efforts of the CMP’s architect, Assemblyman Richard Katz, who successfully forged a statewide consensus of government, business and environmental leaders in developing this innovative approach to transportation solutions.
The innovations that have resulted require California’s urban areas to build their transportation systems, focusing on flexibly funding the best mix of highway, rail, and bus improvements, as well as focusing on coordination of transportation, land use, and air-quality decisions. These concepts have been widely endorsed by planners, but never before implemented, and this visionary approach is being hailed as a national model.
BRADFORD W. McALLESTER
Administrator
Congestion Management Program
LACTC
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