“The county Board of Supervisors and 14 members of the Southland’s congressional delegation Tuesday asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to prioritize projects in Los Angeles County in their bid for federal money.
‘The MTA long-range plan does not currently have a strategy to access much-needed federal funds for several years,’ said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena.
Members of Congress and county supervisors wrote to the MTA asking the agency to include the Foothill and Eastside extensions of the Gold Line and the Crenshaw-South Bay Transit Corridor in its funding priority list.
‘If the board does not include these projects, we leave hundreds of millions of federal dollars on the table that will be directed elsewhere in the country,” Schiff said. “At a time when our unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation, the MTA board cannot afford to overlook the economic imperative to include these projects in its long-range plan.’ ”
Tags: Economy, Transportation
