Upcoming 2nd Valley Transit Summit at CSUN Will Highlight Long Range Transportation Goals for the North Valley
The second-annual Valley Transportation Summit, sponsored by the Valley Economic Alliance, CSUN Government and Community Relations and the Office of Senator Robert Hertzberg, will take place at CSUN on March 3rd, featuring a discussion of constituent concerns and ideas on North Valley transportation priorities. Following on the first successful summit last fall, this second summit will continue the discussion and echo previous concerns that there is a strong need for more North Valley rail and transportation projects to be developed out of the proposed 1-cent sales tax for public transit. These tax measures, a proposed extension of the Measure R tax, as well as a tandem tax proposal known as Measure R2 could make a significant addition to the resources dedicated to transportation infrastructure. If both half-cent sales taxes make the November 2016 ballot, they could inject $121 billion for new projects across Los Angeles County for decades. If approved by voters, a so-