Angelenos Against Gridlock Calls on Pali Residents to Enter LA2050 Challenge

Vexed in your vehicle driving in and out of Pacific Palisades, you don't say?

Angelenos Against Gridlock, a group dedicated to solving Los Angeles' most infamous problem, calls on frustrated residents to vote online at bit.ly.com/vote4la for its proposal to fight for world class transportation and housing in the Goldhirsh Foundation $1 million LA2050 Challenge.  

Any Palisades resident knows that, with the 405 Freeway construction project still more than a year away from being complete, that your easy bait to remain stationary in your vehicle when risking venturing eastbound on Sunset Boulevard. Also, the Pacific Coast Highway presents danger and gridlock all at once from being an older California highway. Any PCH incidents, from accidents to landslides, presents major snarls.

Nearby Santa Monica's endless development also presents risks to Pali drivers heading into the city to work, run errands or play, and the closing of the California Incline for repairs in the future won't help 90272 drivers.

Angelenos Against Gridlock's proposal calls for an ambitious program to rally the L.A. region into achieving its full potential as a world-class place to live with a ubiquitous, fast, efficient rail transportation to rival any transit system in the world, and ample and affordable housing near job centers. 

"We don't need to reinvent the wheel," said David C. Murphy, president. "We just need the bold, collective vision and willpower to implement solutions that have worked in cities across the nation and the globe. Angelenos have suffered long enough." 

Murphy said L.A. needs a fully-built-out subway system and frequent, expanded Metrolink commuter rail, to free residents from crippling gridlock, and enable the city to build the concentration of housing near jobs centers "at the rate needed to make housing more affordable for hardworking families."

HOW TO VOTE:
The Goldhirsh Foundation is giving citizens a role in saying how the foundation will pay out $1 million in funding (ten $100,000 grants) in the LA2050 Challenge. The voting is April 17 at noon.

• Go to bit.ly/vote4la (or the full URL: http://myla2050.maker.good.is/projects/fundthisproject ). Google Chrome or Firefox work better than Internet Explorer.
• Click Vote.
• Submit the form with your email and create a username and password (or login with Facebook).
• Check your email for a confirmation link to finish casting your vote. You must click on this confirmation link for your vote to count!

For more information on AAG, visit its website. For more information on the Goldhirsh Foundation visit its website.