Puget Sound, Los Angeles agencies seek fairness for local taxpayers and reject call-out in Trump Adm
This news release was issued jointly by The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Sound Transit.
The chief executive officers of Sound Transit and The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) issued the following statement in opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed major cuts of transit funding programs.
The agencies disagree with being named in the administration's FY 2018 budget proposal, which asserted the agencies "realize waiting for grant funding is not the most efficient way to meet their local transportation needs." In fact, that very federal grant funding acts as a keystone to the consensus necessary to raise local funds for transit. Without that federal encouragement, we cannot succeed alone locally.
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Sound Transit background
Without congressional action, the most immediate impact of the budget proposal would be elimination of a $1.17 billion federal commitment to the Lynnwood Link light rail extension that was identified last February when the Federal Transit Administration authorized the project to enter into the engineering phase. The region's congressional delegation recently secured a $100 million FY 2017 initial installment toward the $1.17 billion commitment.
https://www.soundtransit.org/About-Sound-Transit/News-and-events/News-releases/puget-sound-los-angeles-agencies-seek-fairness
