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Council adopts congestion-management report, will transmit resolution to MTA after questions on credits and debits
Summary
After a staff presentation and questions from council members, the City Council adopted the local implementation report for the county congestion management program and directed staff to forward the accompanying resolution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to adopt the city's local implementation report on the county congestion management program and approved forwarding the accompanying resolution to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The action followed a staff presentation from the Department of Transportation and questions from council members about how debits and credits are calculated and applied.
Alan Rivkin of the Department of Transportation told the council the congestion management program is overseen by the county MTA and requires local cooperation to account for traffic "debits" (new development that degrades system performance) and "credits" (transportation improvements funded or required by the city or developers). "In order to receive gas tax funds from the raise in the gas tax, in 1992, that we should cooperate with this congestion management program," Rivkin said during the staff briefing.
Councilmember Mark L. Holden, who brought the item forward, pressed staff on how credits are tallied and whether the city can apportion credits against planned development. Rivkin said the credit/debit accounting ties to the MTA's transportation improvement program and that the city would revisit the process with the MTA to clarify apportionment.
After discussion, Holden moved to adopt the committee report and accompanying resolution and to transmit it to the MTA. The council reconsidered the item (it had been previously noted and filed) and adopted the item on an 11-0 roll call.
The report includes a multi-year accounting of project credits the city has accrued for transportation improvements; DOT staff told the council those credits have been substantial and are used in the MTA planning process to determine eligibility for certain gas-tax-funded programs. Staff said a follow-up report on the performance of new traffic-enforcement cars (''e-cars'') and related citation trends will be provided to council within six months.
Vote: item adopted on reconsideration, 11 ayes. The council instructed staff to forward the adopted resolution and coordinate with MTA on credit/debit apportionment.
