EDITORIAL MORE SUBWAY MADNESS OUTRAGE METER: 10.WHAT part of ``no'' does 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. board not understand? Four years ago, when county residents voted to disallow To exclude; reject; deny the force or validity of. The term disallow is applied to such things as an insurance company's refusal to pay a claim. use of a 1 percent transportation sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. add-on for subway construction, that should have sent a clear message: Nobody wants any more overpriced o·ver·price tr.v. o·ver·priced, o·ver·pric·ing, o·ver·pric·es To put too high a price or value on. overpriced Adjective costing more than it is thought to be worth Adj. subways to nowhere, certainly not downtown. Give us mass transit that works for real people. And consensus, at the time, was that if there was any place that new subway lines didn't belong, it was heading westward along Wilshire Boulevard. The Westside already had more than its fair share of mass transit, especially when compared with the perennially underserved 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. . Besides, Westsiders didn't want it. Their longtime congressman, Democrat Harry Waxman, had persuaded the U.S. Congress more than a decade ago to prohibit the use of federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve for the project, for fear that construction would spark explosions in natural gas deposits. Nonetheless, the MTA board voted last week to reopen the question of expanding the Westside subway. The board is calling for further environmental study of the possibility and asking Congress to overturn the law Waxman sponsored. The initiative defies public will and spits in the face of both county and federal law. It's also one more insult heaped upon the Valley by L.A.'s downtown power structure. Mayor James Hahn and his three appointees to the MTA board, including City Councilman Hal Bernson, all betrayed the Valley and other underserved communities on the Eastside and Southside by voting for the measure. If MTA honchos want to put in more subways, let them begin here, where they're needed most. With L.A. residents desperate for reasonable transportation improvements, the MTA's board shouldn't waste its time on unrealistic visions the voters have already rejected. It's time to get to work, already. |
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