Comments on: California Transit Association Recommends Long-Term Funding Ideas http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/17/california-transit-association-recommends-long-term-funding-ideas/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AJ http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/17/california-transit-association-recommends-long-term-funding-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-83461 AJ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:44:18 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2021#comment-83461 Seems dubiously promising. I just hope my client <a href="http://cdg-ca.com" rel="nofollow">Civil Development Group</a> will get to avoid the usual <a href="http://www.caltransit.org/" rel="nofollow">CalTrans</a>, get checked by 14 different engineers who don't talk to each other rigamorole that takes months to complete. Is it possible that cutting funding will make the approval process more efficient, or will these State Departments just get bogged down in their own inefficiencies added to cut staff and resources? Seems dubiously promising. I just hope my client Civil Development Group will get to avoid the usual CalTrans, get checked by 14 different engineers who don’t talk to each other rigamorole that takes months to complete.

Is it possible that cutting funding will make the approval process more efficient, or will these State Departments just get bogged down in their own inefficiencies added to cut staff and resources?

]]> By: Umberto Brayj http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/17/california-transit-association-recommends-long-term-funding-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-5388 Umberto Brayj Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:41:29 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2021#comment-5388 LOL to this. All bets are off when the legislature declares a fiscal emergency and steals transportation money to pay for prisons, cops, and overpriced health care. This sounds like an attempt to write transportation dollars into the state constitution - which has worked wonders in the past on our state's ability to balance its books, right? These transpo. dudes should come to terms with zero (or negative) budgets and drop the huge highway projects and road resurfacings. Just call it quits on that crap. Focus on olde tyme local transportation and mobility (i.e. largely non-motorized, or locally funded public trans. only) and blame the legislature for the shuttering of businesses out in sprawl-villes across the state. LOL to this. All bets are off when the legislature declares a fiscal emergency and steals transportation money to pay for prisons, cops, and overpriced health care.

This sounds like an attempt to write transportation dollars into the state constitution – which has worked wonders in the past on our state’s ability to balance its books, right?

These transpo. dudes should come to terms with zero (or negative) budgets and drop the huge highway projects and road resurfacings. Just call it quits on that crap. Focus on olde tyme local transportation and mobility (i.e. largely non-motorized, or locally funded public trans. only) and blame the legislature for the shuttering of businesses out in sprawl-villes across the state.

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