Mayor Hahn and Key L.A. Officials to Announce $9 Billion Plan for Top Ten Traffic Busters

Metro, L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and Auto Club Lead Initiative as Part of

                    Mobility 21 Transportation Summit

  WHAT:       Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn will join the top leaders from
              the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, L.A.
              Area Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile Club of Southern
              California to announce Mobility 21's Top Ten Traffic Busters
              as part of the third Annual Mobility 21 Transportation Summit.
              Additional summit speakers include Dr. Steve Erie, author of
              Globalizing L.A., and driving safety expert Bella Dinh-Zarr of
              AAA.

  WHEN:       Tuesday        Aug. 3
              8:30 a.m.      General session begins
              9:45 a.m.      Press conference (outside by the hotel
                             conference area)

  WHERE:      Hilton Burbank Airport and Convention Center
              2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank
              (media check in at registration table)

  WHO:        Metro CEO Roger Snoble
              Mayor James Hahn
              Metro Board Chair Frank Roberts
              Alice Bisno, Auto Club vice president of legislative and
               regulatory affairs
              George Kieffer, L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce board chair

  DETAILS:    The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the
              Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the
              Auto Club of Southern California, will co-host the third
              annual Mobility 21 regional transportation summit.  Each year,
              Los Angeles County taxpayers are shortchanged by more than
              $200 million a year in state and federal transportation
              funding, and traffic congestion continues to get worse.
              Mobility 21 is aimed at finding innovative and effective ways
              to secure more transportation funding for the region to help
              reduce gridlock.

  Contact:  Claudia Keith/Marc Littman
            Metro Media Relations
           (626) 357-8002/ (213) 922-4609

PRNewswire -- Aug. 2