Prepare an Educated Workforce
Create a Business-Friendly Environment
Enhance our Quality of Life
Implement Smart Land Use
Build 21st Century Infrastructure
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Champion: LAEDC Infrastructure Commitee
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Build 21st Century Infrastructure
World-class infrastructure, notably the freeways, ports, airport and water system, underpinned the rise of the Los Angeles County economy to the 19th largest in the world, ranking it ahead of Taiwan. The key infrastructure investments were made a generation or more ago and have served the County well. To maintain its competitive edge in today’s global economy, the region must fix the infrastructure development process and invest in upgrading its critical infrastructure.
1. Fix the broken infrastructure development process.
Restore the balance between local and regional interests in considering approval of infrastructure projects.
Promote enabling legislation allowing for best practices (e.g., design/build, public-private partnerships, and performance contracting) to expedite infrastructure development
Advocate for our fair share of public infrastructure dollars and support programs that create opportunities for local contractors from under-served communities.
2. Build and maintain critical infrastructure for L.A. County.
Expedite green growth at the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach by speeding implementation of the Clean Air Action Plan, developing and deploying locally sourced and driven green technology solutions, and adding infrastructure to shift container traffic from road to rail or other cleaner modes.
Modernize Los Angeles International Airport by improving domestic and international terminals, airfield safety and efficiency, passenger experience and accessibility into and out of LAX, while also encouraging the further development and improvement of other airports throughout Southern California.
Ensure a reliable supply of clean and affordable energy by encouraging green energy production from public and private sources, building necessary transmission lines to access clean energy, improving network efficiency and reducing demand (e.g., through energy efficiency programs).
Ensure a reliable supply of clean and affordable water by implementing strategies such as urban water conservation, local stormwater capture, water recycling, and groundwater storage while also pursuing an environmentally-sound solution for the Sacramento Delta that protects Southern California water supplies.
Create a world-class ground transportation network by expanding and improving the quality and user appeal of mass transit and alternative modes (such as bike paths/lanes and community/company buses), improving highway and road capacity, and investing in goods movement infrastructure (such as truck lanes, near-dock intermodal rail yards, and grade-separated rail corridors).
Improve waste-handling capabilities by expanding recycling efforts, finding environmentally-friendly means of disposal for non-recyclables, and upgrading the region’s sewage treatment system, while reducing the waste stream to landfills by encouraging the use of locally-manufactured products that are recyclable, have long life cycles and use less packaging.
Support public and private efforts to continuously improve wired and wireless communications networks in the County to match or exceed the highest global standards for speed and reliability.