What We Do and How We Do It

Move LA Convenes

Move LA works by convening leading members of core constituency into Transportation Working Groups for dialogue on key transportation issues in Los Angeles County. These core constituencies include labor, business, environmental, and environmental and social justice constituencies as well as local governments and student groups. We provide these core constituencies with the opportunity to keep current on key transportation issues and decision points on the local, state, and national level. We also give them the opportunity to share their concerns and proposed strategies, with LA Metro and with each other, for a safe, efficient, clean transportation system for Los Angeles County.

Move LA Educates

Move LA plans and implements regular meetings, usually monthly, with leading members of each of the above core constituencies. This helps to educate these constituency leaders about opportunities for progress on meeting transportation goals, to ensure their active engagement in county transportation issues and challenges and helps us work with them to develop a plan for action.

Move LA Builds Collaboration

In addition, Move LA will:

• Plan and implement twice a year meetings that bring these core constituencies together for dialogue.
• Organize an annual conference on the compelling transportation challenges facing Los Angeles County to be held during the first quarter of each year.

The conference will be an opportunity to lay out and present a draft agenda for action to a larger audience, including elected officials, transportation professionals and members of the press and media. Where possible, Move LA works to help these core constituencies find common ground and collaborative action on these issues, just as we did for Measure R.

Move LA Achieves Goals

Just as it did when Move LA initiated the campaign for Measure R, Move LA works to achieve specific goals, including:

1. Facilitate implementation of Measure R programs and projects approved by the voters in November, 2008;
2. Identify and build support for strategies to enable LA Metro to more quickly and efficiently develop the transportation system envisioned in Measure R; and,
3. Help these constituencies contribute meaningfully to LA County Metro’s Long Range Transportation Plan;
4. Identify and build support for additional sources of funding, including local, state, and federal sources for Los Angeles County transportation projects and programs;
5. In the course of these activities, Move LA will facilitate dialogue, collaboration and coordination with regional and county organizations, such as Mobility 21, that work with LA Metro at state and federal levels on transportation issues.