LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Panel Urges Paying Higher Share of Metrolink Costs
A Los Angeles County transportation panel recommended Wednesday that the county make up almost $2 million for Metrolink service that Ventura County officials, contending their share is too high, have refused to pay.
Ventura County’s share for operating Metrolink trains from downtown Los Angeles to Moorpark is $3.42 million through 1994 under a formula approved by the five-county Southern California Regional Rail Authority. But Ventura County officials have said the formula puts an unfair burden on them, and have offered to pay no more than $750,000 annually until costs are recalculated.
To make up for the shortfall, the Finance and Programming Committee of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission unanimously recommended paying $943,000 this year and in 1994 in addition to the county’s present $3.8-million annual share of expenses for the Ventura County line. The entire commission will consider the recommendation March 24.
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