Transportation

Authority vs. Service

With any great endeavor, one must begin with the basics. That is my reasoning for my proposal to change the title of the MTA from Metropolitan Transportation Authority to the Metropolitan Transportation Service.

For the past 30 years we’ve all had to unnecessarily suffer under a government that has operated with unlimited bureaucratic authority while providing very limited civic service.

This has to change; we must never forget that the government is our servant and not our authority.

Accordingly, the new Metropolitan Transportation Service (MTS) must provide quality traffic and transportation service for all of LA’S citizenry.

The Creative Frontier

If given a challenge and the opportunity we must have team members who are on the cutting edge and have the vision and willingness to find solutions.

Creative Citizens vs. Problem Political Appointees
Solution Oriented vs. Problem Oriented
Public Interest vs. Special Interest
Public Idealism vs. Political Ideology
Public Problem Solver vs. Personal Agenda Promoter
Visionary-Creative-Progressive vs. Complacent-Restrictive-Regressive
Goal Setter vs. Law Maker
Public Infrastructure Builder vs. Campaign Finance Builder
Freedom and Independence vs. Control and Restraint
Individual Sovereignty vs. Social Engineering
Independent Citizen vs. Collective Society
Self-Government vs. Government Control
Freedom of Mobility vs. Mass Transportation
Privatization-Free Enterprise vs. Public Taxpayer Expense
Free- Market vs. Government Bureaucracy
Independent Thinker vs. Group Thinker

Where do you find yourself?

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

The soft- minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Do we build Subway to the Sea or an Expressway to the Future? We are at that point in our lives and I dare say, history where the decision we make will impact our children and our children’s children.

Monorails “Expressway to the Future"

Make no mistake; lumbering buses congest motorist traffic, and dreary, depressive subways are not part of LA's progressive culture.

Monorails built above our major roadways will not only alleviate motorist traffic, but offer a modern environmental and passenger friendly solution; mobilizing our citizenry at a fraction of the cost of a new subway.

I support the new Wilshire Monorail plan, the "Expressway to
the Future," to replace the proposed "Subway to the Sea" plan for West Los
Angeles. I also support a similar plan to be considered for implementation in
the San Fernando Valley.

It's important that this new monorail plan is not beholden to any political party, special interest group or business entity. It was conceived as a modern-day alternative to replace an outmoded transportation system that is counter-productive to LA's fast-paced lifestyle.

Clearly, this is a professional, well-thought-out-plan to consider, not some feeble spur-of-the-moment, back-of-a-cocktail-napkin notion that we've been forced to accept in recent years.

The people of Los Angeles County deserve the best that vision and technology can accomplish.