Councilman Rosendahl Launches $11 Million Transportation Plan
L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl chose the
intersection of Lincoln and Venice Blvds., Dec. 7, to announce a laundry list of
transportation initiatives ranging from pedestrian safety to mass
transit.
Rosendahl was joined by Venice community
activists, mass transit advocates and Gloria Jeff, general manager of the City's
Department of Transportation. For the past several months, Jeff and Rosendahl's
staffs have been working together to develop plans to spend accumulated traffic
mitigation funds that can only be spent in Rosendahl's coastal
district.
Rosendahl's plan
includes:
• Left Turn Signal
Improvements
• An estimated $3 million
for 32 signal improvements
district-wide
• Signal Timing and
Synchronization improvements and
enhancements
• An estimated $5 million
for 165 synchronization enhancements and for 239 controller change-outs to give
DOT better control and vision of
signals
• Extension of Green Line to
LAX
• $500,000 to fund the work of the
Green Line Task Force, a multi-agency group looking at extending the Green Line
to the airport
• $750,000 for planning
potential Green Line station
locations
• $750,000 allocated for
study and planning light rail along Lincoln
Boulevard
• $250,000 for studying and
planning a connection between the Green Line and Phase Two of the Expo
Line
• $50,000 allocated for additional
parking along Lincoln Boulevard
•
$550,000 for boulevard masterplan studies of Sepulveda, Olympic, Pico, Santa
Monica, and Venice boulevards. Masterplans, which include mass transit, land-use
planning, and streetscape studies, link transportation and planning to create
livable boulevards.
• $200,000 for
bicycle and pedestrian transit plans in Council District 11.
Posted: Mon - January 1, 2007 at 02:14 PM