LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Free Taxi Ride Program Extended to All of County
The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission on Wednesday expanded a free taxi ride program formerly restricted to residents of riot-torn areas to include needy residents throughout the county.
The program, dubbed Operation Food Basket because it provided transportation in neighborhoods where markets had been burned, will now offer residents from Pacoima to El Monte free taxi rides to doctors’ offices, food banks, shelters for battered women and other locations 24 hours a day. Social service agencies for the homeless, the poor and other groups will distribute the taxi vouchers.
The commission voted 7 to 4 to spend $2 million more through June on the program, using funding provided by Proposition A, a half-cent sales tax approved by voters in 1980. The commission allotted $380,000 in Proposition A funds in August.
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