Dakota Smith reports that the Los Angeles transit renaissance is leaving the political leadership in the San Fernando Valley feeling left behind.
According to Dakota Smith, reporting for the Los Angeles Daily News, "as the region’s transit network grows, some say the San Fernando Valley is being left out."
The article includes a quote by a Los Angeles City Councilmember who represents the Valley, Paul Krekorian, who says that Measure R—the county's 2008 half-cent sales tax—shortchanged the Valley. According to Smith, "[with] the exception of a new Orange Line busway extension, which opened in 2012, no major Measure R projects have broken ground in the Valley. Instead, studies are being conducted on a rail or bus line along Van Nuys Boulevard. A new Sepulveda Pass transit line is in the early planning stages."
The current debate could have consequences on future efforts to finance transit improvements, according to Smith, especially as the Los Angeles County metropolitan Transportation Authority considers a 2016 ballot initiative to extend Measure R.
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