• Villaraigosa Plan
• Public Safety & Homeland Security
  • 1,000 New Cops
  • Gang Reduction Strategy
  • Protecting Against Disaster
• Traffic & Transportation
  • Investing in Transit
  • Efficient and Safe Roads
  • Safe, Regional and Modern Airports
• Education, Youth & Families
  • Partnership for LA Schools
  • Schoolhouse Framework
• Energy & Environment
  • Combating Climate Change
  • Growing and Greening the Port
  • Greenest and Cleanest Big City
  • Green Building
• Economic Development
  • Major Development Projects
  • Good Paying Jobs
  • Growing a Global Capital
• Fiscal Responsibility & Management
  • Sound Budgeting
  • Strong Management

Vision

We envision a world-class transportation system that supports the highest quality of life possible in an urban environment and continued economic prosperity for the city and the region.

Angelenos should continue to benefit from one of the best street and highway systems in the world, but we should prioritize expansion of our public transit system so that residents, workers, and visitors have convenient, high speed alternatives to driving.

New transit systems should generally be grade separated rail because it is the safest, highest capacity, and fastest alternative to driving and because we believe that one of the key barriers to using transit in Los Angeles is travel time.

We should encourage pedestrian and transit oriented development near rail and busway stations so that Angelenos do not have to be automobile dependent, instead being able to walk or take transit for at least some of their trips that historically required driving.

We should plan and support high quality development near transit stations so that more and more people can use transit for their trips, and so that single family neighborhoods are protected from encroachment and densification.

We should pursue higher transit utilization that will reduce mobile source emissions and keep our streets flowing for those who drive and for businesses providing services in the city or moving goods.

Our streets should be managed so that the we can achieve the best speeds possible, recognizing that projected population growth and associated driving may lead to more traffic congestion even with and expanded transit system, increased transit use and aggressive congestion relief efforts.

However, we should not focus on wide-scale street widening or double decking freeways and city streets that would destroy neighborhoods and limit desired pedestrianism.

We should maintain LAX as the international gateway to Los Angeles, but we should also expand domestic operations at other airports throughout Southern California, especially the city-owned facilities in Ontario and Palmdale.

This regional approach will increase customer access to flights, reduce driving, and reduce the environmental impacts of LAX on the surrounding neighborhoods, especially traffic congestion and mobile source emissions.

For those who still need to get to LAX, we should increase convenient transit service to the airport so that driving is not necessary and public safety is improved through fewer vehicles in the central terminal area.

We should focus on expanding dedicated, rail-based goods movement facilities that take trucks off our street and highway system and produce the lowest pollution per ton-mile.

In all areas, we should seek to incorporate environmentally sustainable practices, with a special emphasis on cleaner fuels and more energy efficient buildings and facilities.

Ultimately, we are striving to start a transportation infrastructure investment program that will be implemented in the years and decades to come, a program that will transform Los Angeles from the car capital of the world to a vibrant metropolis that can also be discovered and lived on foot and by public transit.