December
10,
2003
CONTACT:
RIck Jager/Marc Littman
MTA MEDIA RELATIONS
(213) 922-2707/922-2700
www.metro.net/press/pressroom
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MTA to Hold Public Scoping
Meeting to Discuss the Proposed Development of a West Los Angeles Transportation
Center
MTA will hold a public
meeting to gather input on the development of a proposed West Los Angeles
Transportation Center.
The meeting will take place
at the Baha'i Center located at 5755 Rodeo Road in Los Angeles on Tuesday,
Dec. 16 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The purpose of the
transportation center is to provide improved public transit service in the
central and western areas of Los Angeles County including large portions of the
City of Los Angeles (including the communities of West Adams, Mid-City, South
L.A., etc.) and the incorporated cities of Beverly Hills, Culver City, Malibu,
Santa Monica and West Hollywood.
The West Los Angeles
Transportation Center is proposed as an operations and maintenance facility to
support a fleet of as many as 175 clean-fuel compressed natural gas (CNG)
coaches.
MTA is in the process of
preparing a draft environmental impact report (EIR) on the proposed project that
will address environmental topics including traffic and circulation impacts, air
quality issues, environmental noise, land use as well as aesthetics.
Following the public meeting,
should additional issues arise, MTA will expand the scope of the Draft EIR, as
necessary, to accommodate other areas of potential environmental effects.
The new center, proposed to
be located on a 4.6-acre site on the east side of Jefferson Boulevard between
Rodeo Road and National Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles, will replace an
existing bus maintenance facility now located in Venice.
The new facility will allow
MTA to expand service from a centralized location in response to growing
ridership and to do so with new CNG coaches replacing older diesel coaches.
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