Lack of Transit Panelists May Have Cost Us
The Sun (San Bernardino, CA) › August 08, 2005
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WASHINGTON - Call it congestion without representation.
Despite its more than 3,300 miles of freeway and countless traffic woes, the greater Los Angeles area has only two representatives on the House Transportation Committee, an imbalance that local experts - and even one lawmaker - said may have hurt the region's effort to bring in more dollars from the new federal highway bill.See the full content of this document
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Lack of Transit Panelists May Have Cost Us
"Clearly, we don't have the representation,'' said Mark Pisano, executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments.
"We've had a hard time getting people to serve on the committee. They've got a lot of other ...See the full content of this document
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