Ten Ideas For Fixing L.A.'s Traffic

Transit experts Jim Moore, Don Shoup, Joel Kotkin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Ted Balaker, Joel Reynolds and Brian Taylor all offer suggestions on how to affordably fix Los Angeles' traffic problems.

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April 17, 2007, 1:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

Many of the recommendations are decidedly market-based.

From James Moore, director of the transportation engineering program at USC:

"The first step is to end the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's virtual monopoly and allow private jitney and bus operators to enter the transportation market to compete with the MTA and with each other."

From Brian D. Taylor, associate professor of urban planning and director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA:

"Bring road supply and travel demand into balance with prices. Instead of paying for transportation projects with bonds, fuel taxes and the like, drivers would pay as they go."

FULL STORY: How to fix traffic

Monday, April 16, 2007 in The Los Angeles Times

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