ROOM TO GROW AVTA BUS COMPLEX PLANS FOR EXPANSION.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Transit Authority Antelope Valley Transit Authority is the transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster and their suburbs. Antelope Valley Transit Authority is operated under contract by Veolia Transport, and is affiliated and offers connecting services with Metro and Metrolink. officials unveiled a $21 million headquarters and bus maintenance complex that replaced a leased facility less than one-fifth the size. Financed mostly with state and federal aid, the new facility includes an automated bus wash, equipment that counts fares, and a bus parking shade topped with a quarter-acre of solar panels expected to save $25,000 a year in electric bills. ``It's a good investment because it's an investment for the future,'' 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. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich Mike Antonovich might refer to:
The complex, started in 2002, was built on 16 acres on 6th Street West just north of Avenue M, adjacent to the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La training center and the new Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Courthouse. It replaced a 2.5-acre facility at 10th Street West and Avenue L-12, where officials said they had to cut a hole in a back fence and lease adjoining property because they ran out of room to park buses. The new complex consists of concrete parking areas for more than 100 buses - with room to expand - plus a bus maintenance garage and the administrative and operations building for dispatchers and office workers. The solar-cell-covered shade canopy will cut the heat for 20 buses during hot summer days when bus drivers have to run the vehicles' air conditioners before leaving to pick up passengers. Lancaster, Palmdale and Los Angeles County, which jointly operate the AVTA AVTA Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity , contributed about $2.8 million of the $21 million cost, officials said. The rest came from a transit 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. measure, federal grant money, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, federal grants and $3.5 million in federal aid secured by U.S. Rep. Howard ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita. ``It's large enough for the growth this valley is going to have,'' McKeon said. The new facility will give the agency room enough for buses, repair shops and staff to accommodate the Antelope Valley's projected population growth through 2020, officials said. ``We know we're going to grow. We're going to grow rapidly,'' Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts said. Moving into the new building will let the bus agency stop making lease payments on money that otherwise could go to fund bus operations, Roberts said. Created in 1992, the AVTA carried 900,000 passengers its first year and more than 2.7 million last year. With more than 200 employees, it operates 77 buses and dial-a-ride vans, traveling 14 local routes and three commuter routes to Los Angeles and 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. . CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) A.V. Transit Authority buses are lined up during Friday's grand opening for the new 16-acre facility in Lancaster. (2 -- color) Bishop Henry Hearns, executive board chairman for the Antelope Valley Transit Authority, speaks at the official opening for AVTA's $21 million headquarters and bus maintenance complex. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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