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Angelenos Against Gridlock Calls on Brentwood Residents to Enter LA2050 Challenge

Proposal through Goldhirsh Foundation rallies the L.A. region to vote to help achieve its full potential as a world-class place to live, and will pay out $1 million in grants.

Vexed in your vehicle driving through Brentwood, 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 Brentwood resident knows that, with the 405 Freeway construction project still more than a year away from being complete, that driving on Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard and any feeder or connector streets can be a gamble given the time of day.

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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." 

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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.

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