Expansion of Public Transportation

Public transportation in L A county has never met the potential ridership, and the goal of reducing automobile emissions and overall reducing the number of automobiles on local freeways and other access to business districts and outlying neighborhoods. While it is a fact that "even in cities with good transportation systems, the imbalance between where people live and where the jobs are is made worse by structural inadequacies" (Lemov, 1993, p. 33), many new business areas and shopping malls were constructed without regard for existing mass transit systems. In Los Angeles, for example, there are enormous parking lots adjacent to malls, but relatively few proper public transportation facilities to bring shoppers as well as employees to the location. The Los Angeles MTA needs to look to "reverse-commute" programs to extend public transportation. Many public officials are "eager to bring inner-city workers to suburban jobsa.governments have an interest in making sure those jobs are accessible" (Lemov, 1993, p. 3).

While LA County has taken some steps to increase and improve public mass transportation- the Red Line, the Green Line and the Blue line, plus new express bus service, and expansion of the Red Line to San Fernando Valley, ridership is far from a permissible peak. People are still driving, because for one reason or another, they find the public mass transportation syst6em does not meet their needs in terms of schedule and location for boarding or getting o

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