{"id":25416,"date":"2020-05-28T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25416"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:53:41","slug":"statement-from-supervisor-mark-ridley-thomas-on-metro-budget-and-cost-control-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25416","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas on Metro Budget and Cost Control Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA May 28, 2020 _<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cDue to a Board with an expansive vision and an agency motivated to deliver, we have found ourselves in a position to advance projects years before the commitment made to voters when they passed Measure M. The work to do so over the past few years has been audacious, driven by a reality that the infrastructure and transportation needs are significant in all corners of this region. I have long advanced a regional, rational, and equitable transportation policy at Metro.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cBut this moment rightly forces us to reevaluate. First and foremost, our commitment must continue to be on delivering Measure M projects where and when they were promised. Then, this crisis should motivate us all \u2013 including our industry partners \u2013 to do some belt tightening.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cInvesting in infrastructure has historically been the ticket to restarting the economy, and we should exhaust efforts to drive that scenario now. These efforts should be guided by unprecedented innovation and resourcefulness. This is a new reality, and we must be guided accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA May 28, 2020&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25417,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25416\/revisions\/25417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}