Planners Get OK to Shift Transit Funds
Thousand Oaks traffic planners on Friday received permission from the Ventura County Transportation Commission to spend more than $660,000, first slated for natural-gas-fueled buses, on park-and-ride lots.
Commission members voted unanimously to allow the change, in part because City Manager Grant Brimhall decided that the city no longer needs the three new buses because the transit system is being revised.
“The reprogramming of monies for the acquisition of a park-and-ride facility is consistent with [state] requirements,” Brimhall told the commission in a letter.
Thousand Oaks owns four buses that run on compressed natural gas.
The city plans to purchase two new park-and-ride lots, both of which are just off the Moorpark Freeway, a major thoroughfare for many Thousand Oaks residents who commute to Los Angeles.
The first would be at the Janss Road exit, and the second at the junction of the Ventura and Moorpark freeways. The lots will not be acquired until next year.
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