City Ordered to Pay Fees in Transit Suit
A judge has ordered the city to pay nearly $250,000 in attorneys fees for its failed attempt to halt work on the Alameda Corridor transit project.
The city sued the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority in November seeking a supplemental environmental study on the $2-billion transit project. Such a study would have delayed the project and increased its cost, Alameda Corridor officials said.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert O’Brien wrote that without reasonable limits on demands for environmental reviews, “major projects get unnecessarily bogged down in the seemingly never-ending discretionary review.”
O’Brien threw out the lawsuit in June and took the unusual action of granting a motion Monday for $246,486 in attorneys fees. The Alameda Corridor project will speed cargo between the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and downtown.
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