6/17
Dear
Mayor Villaraigosa: We are writing to ask
you to delay the proposed MTA Board vote to adopt the 2009 Long Range
Transportation Plan scheduled for Thursday, June 11. We ask that you move to
adopt a new process (outlined in detail below) that allows the public our right
to fully participate and give input. We also must register a strong concern
about the substance of the Long Range Transportation Plan. If the assumptions
of the 2008 draft remain in place-ongoing fare increases, reduction in bus
service, billions spent on highway and rail serving more affluent
communities-the disparate economic, social, environmental, and mobility impacts
on low income communities of color will create another transportation civil
rights crisis in Los Angeles
County.