Urban Policies and Transporation in So. Calif.

A trenchant examination of environmental public policy in the United States during the early years of the scandal-ridden Environmental Protection Agency of the Reagan administration criticizes the way Reagan's first-term EPA offered covert "sweetheart deals" to long-term industrial polluters, even as it presented a facade of negotiation, committees, and compromise. The text authors (Bacow & Wheeler, 1984) advocate public negotiations, where competing interests may collide for all to see. In certain cases, they suggest, judicial review of procedures and policies may be necessary.

Another view (Gray, 1989) is that there are disadvantages to "pluralistic" solutions to environmental disputes. Pluralism implies inequality, inasmuch as some groups have more resources and carry more weight than others. Competition can also lead to stalemate, with resolution thereof possibly coming from governmental authority. There is also the issue of whether government authority would be exercised on behalf of the

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s down to is that crowded bus lines unserved by park-and-ride lots dominate Latino areas of Orange County, when the problems of overcrowding in inner-city and immigrant neighborhoods are most in need of addressing. But they have been put at a much lower priority than white suburban neighborhoods. The emergence of so-called bandit cabs, or raiteros (ride men), serving a mainly Latino clientele, has been another source of controversy. These cabs are unlicensed, uninspected, and often uninsured taxis that take passengers to destinations for a fraction of licensed livery-service fees. While licensed taxi drivers, who may make up to about $400 per day on standard fares and who may rent their vehicles for $520 per week, complain about the undercutting of their businesses, the raiteros appear to fill a need, not least because they operate in immigrant-heavy areas: The bandit cabbies are an integral part of a community where many people do not own cars, public transportation is limited and fares on licensed cabs are beyond many people's wallets (Mena, 2001, p. B-3). Orange County's bus-transportation system experienced a financial shortfall in FY 2001 for reasons having to do with the impact of top-down, supply-side access decisions on
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