• Champion Clean Money Campaigns, which are voluntary, publicly financed campaigns with spending limits. By taking developers’ money out of campaigns, politicians at every level would have less incentive to grant developments that are likely to snarl traffic. I support Clean Money Campaigns so strongly, I am the only candidate in my race to agree to voluntary spending limits.
• Work with LA City, LA County, SCAG and the MTA to establish a regional traffic oversight board, similar to the SCAQMD, with responsibility to consider the traffic impacts of new infrastructure and of smaller, less apparent impacts on traffic. This board may be part of SCAG, or it may be a separate entity.
• Work with the nine cities in our district to prepare and coordinate community plans that not only minimize traffic and congestion, but ensure that traffic, parking, mass transit, bike and pedestrian ramifications are fully considered. Each of the nine cities are currently creating their Master Plans, the 20-year “blueprints” that lay out each community’s vision for future development.
  
  More importantly, I will work on state legislation to require that each community’s Master Plan is followed. Too often, piecemeal exemptions are made to the Master Plan, which cumulatively increase density, traffic, congestion and unplanned drains on the infrastructure. Master Plans should be flexible, but not to the point where they become so “Swiss-cheesed” they are useless.
• Fight “big box” developments. Our local communities must have the financial resources to run our communities….By gutting funding (such as the Vehicle License Fee), Sacramento unwittingly encourages local governments to entice Big Box developments (such as Wal-Mart) into their communities. These monstrous stores drive out local mom-and-pop shops, requiring people to drive from further away to shop at the Big Box – which increases traffic. Additionally, the several hundred employees of the Big Box, who usually don’t live nearby, drive to work, further stressing traffic and congestion.
  
  We should consider regional revenue sharing so that local communities have fewer incentives to attract “big boxes” and increased incentives to build housing.
• Provide incentives for businesses to create innovative, flexible work shifts to collapse rush hour congestion. We can encourage cooperation by providing businesses who aggressively deal with reducing their employees’ commuting times with tax breaks. We can provide incentives for the trucking industry to curtail rush hour deliveries. By creating public-business partnerships, I believe we can lessen the financial impacts of sluggish traffic.
  
  I will work to restore AQMD’s ability to require employers of 100 or more employees create commute management programs. After this requirement was dropped by state legislation, ridesharing and carpooling decreased.
  
  As executive director of the Coalition for Clean Air right after the 1984 Olympics, I worked with our communities to evaluate the effectiveness of these traffic-calming policies.
• Ensure that Proposition 42 money – a tax on gasoline that California voters elected to be earmarked directly for traffic-easing measures – be spent on easing traffic. One of the first things Gov. Schwarzenegger did was threaten the Prop 42 money. That money MUST be spent on completing carpool lanes and other traffic mitigation measures already underway.
• Encourage carpooling, vanpooling, dedicated bus lanes, dedicated bike routes and other measures designed to reduce the one-person/one-car habit. I will work with Sen. Sheila Kuehl’s committee to make PCH safer for bicyclists.
• Expand and supporting existing bus service, including providing for the safety of bus drivers and passengers. The Amalgamated Transit Workers have endorsed my campaign.
• Support mass transit. A long-term solution that can provide benefits for generations, mass transportation must be a state, federal and local priority. I will fight for both long-term, permanent mass transit systems and more flexible transit lines, such as the new Orange Line rapid bus line in the San Fernando Valley. I support the proposed light rail line along the Exposition Corridor, the extension of the Red Line subway to Westwood to relieve traffic on the congested 10 and a north-south line from LAX to the San Fernando Valley.
• Fight for additional money to meet our transportation needs by levying traffic mitigation fees on new developments and by reducing the voter threshold to pass traffic bonds from two-thirds to 50%.

Download Kelly's Traffic plan as PDF.