RESEDA CHOSEN TO RECEIVE FEDERAL TRANSIT GRANT : MONEY EARMARKED FOR BUS STOPS, TREES.Byline: Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writer Allocating a second round of federal grants to improve transit corridors, Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. on Monday announced that Reseda and four other areas of the city would participate in the the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Neighborhood Investment program. The grants from the federal Department of Transportation are aimed at ``humanizing'' corridors with landscaping, street furniture, bus stops and bus shelters bus shelter bus n → abribus m bus shelter n → Wartehäuschen nt bus shelter n → pensilina ( . There are existing LANI LANI Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative LANI Local Access to Network Interface projects are in North Hollywood and Sun Valley. ``This is an effort (for) neighborhoods to decide what they need and to make improvements,'' Mayor Richard Riordan said in announcing the grants at a news conference outside Canter's restaurant in the Fairfax area. ``Neither I, in my office, or the council members can solve your problems. You have to solve the problems. What we can do is empower you.'' In addition to Reseda, grants of $300,000 each were announced for the Fairfax area, Pico-Union area and the Vernon-Central Los Angeles area. Specific projects for the Reseda area have yet to be defined, but will be developed with a community board, said Ken Bernstein, deputy to Councilwoman Laura Chick chick abbreviation for chicken (1). , who represents the area. ``We expect most of this to be concentrated in the Reseda Boulevard-Sherman Way area, and we're looking mostly at physical improvements,'' Bernstein said. He said Chick plans to included the LANI project with other programs that are under way to revitalize re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. the Reseda central business district. These include the earthquake recovery program operated by the Community Redevelopment Agency and a local business improvement district where firms assess themselves to make improvements. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO A community board will decide how to spend a federal grant in Reseda to improve major transit arteries such as Sherman Way. Michael Owen
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