$216 BILLION NEEDED FOR AREA TRANSIT.Byline: Conor Friedersdorf Staff Writer Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, needs to spend as much as $216 billion on freeways, mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a and other transportation projects over the next 25 years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the regional planning regional planning: see city planning. agency's report released Wednesday. The Southern California Association of Governments' plan proposes solutions to handle the 6 million more people and 3 million new jobs that will come to the region by 2030. ``We need to be aggressive to meet the challenge,'' said SCAG scag - To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage. Compare scrog, roach. board member Bev Kelly. ``And if a project is not in this plan, it won't be funded.'' The plan calls for numerous major projects including an additional $21 billion for highway improvements, including more car-pool lanes; a rail system to connect airports and doubling Metrolink's capacity. The plan also lays out a strategy for funding the $216 billion in transportation improvements, which would require raising more than $90 billion. The proposal includes rasing gasoline taxes by 10 cents per gallon by 2015, dedicating all gas tax revenue to transportation improvements, charging user fees for lanes dedicated to truck traffic, taxing alternative fuel and imposing a fee on developers to mitigate the transportation effects of new homes. To read the plan visit the agency's Web site at www.scag.ca.gov. Conor Friedersdorf, (909) 483-9347 conor.friedersdorf(at)dailybulletin.com |
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