MAYOR HERALDS NEW RAPID LINE IN VALLEY SEPULVEDA ROUTE HELPS FULFILL MANDATE.Byline: RACHEL URANGA Staff Writer Touting the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's growing bus ridership and increased demand for public transit, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. and top transit officials announced the opening of a new Rapid bus line along the Valley's busiest corridor. The Rapid line, which fulfills a court mandate for better service, will run along Sepulveda Boulevard, easing overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. for some of the area's most well traveled routes. ``This shows our total commitment to meeting the spirit of the consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. , by continuing to implement the Rapid line and add new buses to the system,'' said Rod Goldman, executive officer of operations. As part of the federal consent decree, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was forced to purchase 200 new Rapid buses last year. The buses -- still being rolled out across the system -- make fewer stops, run 25 percent faster than other buses and are synchronized with street signals. Eventually, those buses will make up 28 Metro Rapid lines across the city by 2008 -- as ordered by a special master overseeing the federal consent decree. Two additional Rapid lines will open on Reseda and Lankershim boulevards later this year. Officials on Friday also announced the addition of 45 replacement buses along two Rapid lines in the area's most clogged corridors: Van Nuys and Ventura boulevards. The Bus Riders Union, which has been in a showdown with 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. over a soon-to-expire consent decree, lauded the opening but warned that added services could easily recede re·cede 1 intr.v. re·ced·ed, re·ced·ing, re·cedes 1. To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark: waited for the floodwaters to recede. 2. if the 10-year decree is not extended. ``This again is a great victory of the consent decree,'' said Manuel Criollo Criollo native Spanish-American light horse or riding pony. Includes a number of ethnic varieties, e.g. Argentine Criollo. Any color, 13.3 to 15 hands high. Originated from a mixture of Arab, Barb and Andalusian. , a lead organizer at the BRU. ``But let's be straight: The MTA had no expansion plans for Rapid bus.'' The decree forced the MTA to expand its bus hours and service in some of the city's poorest and minority-populated areas. Since 1996 the agency has spent $1.3 billion on new buses, services and lawyer fees in order to implement the decree. But during a Friday morning press conference unveiling the plans, there was no mention of the decree. ``They say good things come in three and this is surely the case in 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. ,'' said Villaraigosa, who with other officials used the camera time to promote a November measure that could mean a windfall of transit dollars to Los Angeles. rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3741 CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: no caption (bus) Map: New Bus Line |
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