Statement from Senator Dianne Feinstein:
"Measure M is a bold, transformative plan that will create a 21st Century transportation network. This is a plan and transportation network designed with people in mind, a plan that reduces the time you’re stuck in traffic and provides transportation choices like more light rail and rapid bus along with improved highways and freeways. Equally important, it gives money to every local community to repair their streets and sidewalks. Passing Measure M also creates jobs, good jobs, and stimulates the Southern California economy. I urge you to Vote YES on Measure M.”
Thanking Senator Feinstein for her support, Mayor Eric Garcetti said: “Senator Feinstein has been an important partner to Los Angeles County when it comes to transportation innovation. Her leadership secured federal grants for the Purple Line Subway Extension and the Downtown Regional Connector Subway Project. Her support for Measure M is validation that LA County is moving in the right direction by voting Yes on Measure M.”
The announcement came as Garcetti, westside L.A. Councilmember Mike Bonin, Santa Monica Mayor Tony Vasquez, Culver City Councilmember Meghan Sahli-Wells, West Hollywood Councilmember Lindsey Horvath and a slew of westside community leaders rallied support for Measure M at the Bundy Expo Line station today.
Measure M will reduce the time people are stuck in traffic by fifteen percent a day. According to the non-profit Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, it will create 465,000 new jobs. Measure M will ease traffic immediately by repairing potholes and repaving local streets and roads in each of L.A. County’s 88 cities. It will keep senior, disabled, and student fares affordable and will provide critical earthquake retrofitting for overpasses and bridges. With the county population exploding by 2.3 million in the coming years, we need these improvements and jobs now.
Measure M will modernize L.A. County's aging transportation system and build a twenty-first century transportation network that expands subway, light rail, Rapid Bus, Metrolink, freeways, and highways. Measure M adds and accelerates transit lines and finally ties them together into a comprehensive system that will work with an improved freeway and local road network.
Measure M is endorsed by a bi-partisan roster of leaders including Senator Barbara Boxer and Supervisor Mike Antonovich; the LA County Business Federation and the LA County Labor Federation and labor; and the Sierra Club, AARP and the Los Angeles Times.