Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Robert Hertzberg offers a 'Commuters' Bill of Rights'.
As the Los Angeles mayoral campaign heats up, traffic and transportation issues have become fair game for barbs. Traffic congestion in Los Angeles ranks as the worst in the nation, according to an annual study by the Texas Transportation Institute.
Among Hertzberg's 'bill of rights' would be ending road construction during rush hours, cutting the number of trucks on the road during commute times and installing more synchronized lights and left-turn signals.
Current Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn fired back by sending Hertzberg (who is the former state Assembly Speaker), a "Los Angeles Commuters' Bill for $850,000,000 of taxpayer money that has been and is being diverted from our transportation needs to pay for the budget mess you left in Sacramento."
Thanks to Chris Steins
FULL STORY: Hertzberg, Hahn Trade Jabs on Traffic

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