New L.A. Mayor Urges Residents To Use Public Transit

Mayor Villaraigosa urges Los Angeles residents to give up their cars one or two days a week and use public transit instead.

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July 28, 2005, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is starting small, asking Los Angeles residents to give up driving just one or two days a week. The theory is that getting a few more cars off the road would go a long way toward easing gridlock and air pollution that are the worst in the nation....Since freeways overtook a once-thriving trolley system half a century ago, attitudes toward public transportation in Los Angeles have ranged from blase to hostile."

Thanks to Adam Christian

FULL STORY: New L.A. Mayor Pushing Public Transit

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 in The Los Angeles Times

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