LA Learns From Its Loss

Still smarting from its loss of an Urban Partnership Program grant, Los Angeles has apparently learned from the experience and is moving ahead with a plan to implement tolling on current carpool lanes in expressways in the region. The Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved the tolling plan at its meeting last Thursday. There is even talk of devoting some of the toll revenue to transit improvements.

Locally, nothing but silence despite this region's loss of such a grant. Those who fail to learn from history. . . .