Mayor Garcetti Joins Rail Manufacturing President and Employees Where Metro's Rail Cars are Made by 350 L.A. County Workers

PALMDALE -- Metro Vice Chair and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Kinkisharyo International, LLC President Akiyoshi Oba today urged a yes vote on Measure M to create new jobs. Kinkisharyo's 450,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Palmdale currently employs 350 people making rail cars for Metro's Gold and Expo lines, and they will soon make cars for the under-construction Crenshaw/LAX line. Measure M will dramatically increase rail transit all across Los Angeles County, requiring the manufacture of many more rail cars. According to the non-profit Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, Measure M will create 465,000 jobs across our region.

The Kinkisharyo facility cost $60 million to build and is located on 60 acres near the intersection of Sierra Highway and Avenue M in Palmdale.

Vote Yes on Measure M to Move and Improve L.A. County Traffic Now

MONROVIA -- Members of the Yes on M coalition were joined by a largegathering of working men and women at the Gold Line rail yard in Monrovia to urge passage of Measure M, the Los Angeles County Traffic Improvement Plan, to create 465,000 jobs and reduce the time L.A. County residents are stuck in traffic by 15 percent.

Duarte Councilmember and Metro Chair John Fasana, L.A. Mayor and Metro Vice Chair Eric Garcetti, local elected officials and residents including Councilmembers from South Pasadena, and leaders and rank and file members of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, Los Angeles County Business Federation, American Heart Association, Operating Engineers, Los Angeles/Orange County Building & Construction Trades, the Carpenters/Contractors Cooperation Committee, and Investing In Place all came together to say "Vote yes on M to move and improve L.A. County Traffic today.