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AAA Deserves a AAA Rating
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 7:29pm.I just had yet another very pleasant experience at the Arcadia office on Huntington Drive of the AAA Automobile Club of Southern California.
Gold Line? 20 Days to E-Mail Reps
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 11:38pm.There are only 20 days left until the MTA board meets a final time to decide the fate of the Gold Line Foothill Extension -- whether to greenlight it for construction from the Sierra Villa station to Montclair.
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If $4.50 per gallon-and-rising gas prices makes you want to see this project built in the near future, you must contact any and all members of the MTA board immediately and let them know your feelings. A list of e-mail addresses and phone numbers of each board member is included below.
The federal government has already agreed to kick in about $200 million if the MTA will just commit to about $80 million for this $1 billion ready-and-waiting project as opposed to the $5 billion or so Subway-to-the-Sea project that is still in the concept stage.
A representative from the MTA, Ann Kerman, addressed the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Forum Thursday to say that the MTA has the Goldline Foothill Extension project on the long-range unfunded list right now. Unless that changes and it gets moved to the list of funded projects by June 26, it will surely not get built at all or be put on the back burner for many more years.
The MTA's last-minute conceptual back-up funding plan to put a half-cent County sales tax on a future ballot is too squishy to count on.
The best chance of getting it put on the funded list is for as many people as possible from Arcadia and the San Gabriel Valley to join college students and Mayors from other cities, as well as Congressman David Dreier and others, in making your voice heard by MTA board members as loudly as possible before they make their final decision at the monthly MTA board meeting on June 26.
Here is the list of contacts for MTA board members:
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Morning Musings: Gold Line, Toll Roads, and Taxes, Oh My!Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:00am.Remember the Gold Line extension we were promised that would add a train line line from Pasadena through Arcadia (more than 70% of us voted several years ago to approve building another railroad bridge over Santa Anita) and all the way to Montclair and maybe even the LA/Ontario Airport?
Morning Musings: Gas-saving tips?Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 11:05am.We all get so many forwarded and unsolicited e-mails from crackpots, zealots, paranoid conspiracy theorists, and jingoists, that truly accurate, relevant and helpful information is surely lost along the way.
Traffic ChallengesSubmitted by Scott Hettrick on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 1:00am.When it comes to complaints about traffic, Mayor Pro-tem Bob Harbicht says it usually boils down to each person wanting to make sure the light is always green when he or she arrives at the intersection.
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