Important discounts of the Los Angeles transport agency could threaten major transit plans for the Olympic Games and the City Safety Safety Goals, warned the agency’s first manager.
The mayor’s budget proposed the reduction of more than $ 7 million in spending and the elimination of almost 24% of the Ministry of Transport’s workforce – making it one of the heaviest departments. The cuts would affect the application of parking, updates to the traffic signal, the objectives of improving traffic safety and support for the main railway and bus track projects before the 2028 Olympic Games.
“Many basic Ladot services are motivated by security – a singular objective to make our streets safer and offer Angelenos safer options to travel,” the director general Laura Rubio -Cornejo wrote on Tuesday in a service note at Katy Yaroslavsky, the President of the Budget and the City Financing Committee. “Budget cuts and proposed layoffs threaten this fundamental objective.”
Other departments focused on transport are also faced with large cuts. The Bureau of Engineering is about to lose 131 positions in its department, which focuses on improvements in streets and bridges and major infrastructure updates. Streetsla, formerly the Bureau of Street Services, could face more than 260 jobs. The cuts would affect the calendar of repairs of nests-de-poule, street sweeping, the trees and emergency interventions, and would prevent the office from investigating the violations of the Americans with the law on people with disabilities, according to the executive director of Streetsla and managing director Keith Mozee, who wrote a letter to the committee.
The discounts offered to the Services take place while press residents of city officials to implement a decade old mobility plan and improve road safety. The reductions could affect this mandate of the voters.
The budget proposed by Mayor Karen Bass, published on Monday, would eliminate a financial gap of nearly a billion dollars by reducing more than 2,700 jobs in town.
The reduction of the proposed transport agency of 271 positions completed and 152 vacant would limit the capacity of the city to monitor the application of parking and traffic control during events and special events and would create delays in the survey of complaints of abandoned vehicles, wrote Rubio-Cornejo. The cuts would affect the ministry’s response times to respond to requests from fire and police services, and would cause around 700 daily calls to residents at the Transport Service Communication Center. They would slow the repairs of traffic lights and the maintenance of signaling and track scratches.
“The identification of system dysfunctions and signal system repairs will be slow and may have direct impacts in the emergency response,” wrote Rubio-Cornejo.
The cuts would affect the agency’s ability to support some of Metro’s “main railway and bus projects” before the Olympic Games, according to the memo. A metro spokesperson refused to comment.
Metro’s plans before the Olympic Games include an expansion of its public transport network which would strongly depend on the use of bus, more bus priority and faster speeds. The construction is underway to update the Metro G line B bus route in the San Fernando valley – a project that relies on the city’s transport agency to update traffic lights to promote Metro electric buses for faster service.
The city is on the hook of $ 183 million to improve the streets in the stations of three metro projects under measure M. that money could go to the transport agency or directly to Metro, but Rubio-Cornjeo warned that the loss of the staff of the transport agency would pose challenges to projects.
The memo occurs after a report was shared with the mayor detailing the transit agency’s recommendations on how to improve the city’s vision zero initiative to eliminate traffic deaths. The joint report of the Administrative Director and the Ministry of Transport is largely focused on the need for traffic application – which has dropped over time in the staff and priority changes to the LAPD – after the failure of chess in the program.
The proposed transport cuts would affect the ministry’s capacity to make its recommendations, wrote Rubio-Cornejo, which includes the revaluation of data collection and the development of public awareness campaigns around road safety. And this would result in a drop in income from parking quotes and overall traffic compliance.
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