EDITORIAL BUSWAY POLITICS.CITIZENS Organized for Smart Transit - the group that's fighting to block completion of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. busway - charges that the MTA's environmental impact report is skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data to make the busway look good. You don't say! Is COST really surprised that, having already signed off on the busway and far along in building it, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would conclude that the project is a good idea? The outcome was inevitable. That's what makes COST's lawsuit to block construction, pending a new EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) , so pointless. All it did was delay progress and waste taxpayers' money. But that's all COST really wanted. The group is no more interested in a balanced study than is the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. . COST wants to stop the busway any way it can, while the MTA wants to push forward on the most realistic, most popular plan possible for relieving Valley traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. . Both sides have an agenda, but at least the MTA's serves the public good. |
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