Description

This Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) is the first plan update since 1995, and looks ahead at
transportation needs over the next twenty-five years, from 2001 through 2025.
MTA is responsible for planning and programming in Los Angeles County, in accordance with
Government Code Section 130051. The LRTP is a key element of MTA’s planning process, as it
proactively identifies transportation needs and challenges that Los Angeles County will face over
the next twenty-five year period. The plan helps decision-makers understand the options that are
available for improving the transportation system, and how different options work toward improving
mobility. As the LRTP is MTA’s long range planning vision, it becomes the blueprint for implementing
future transportation improvements for Los Angeles County.
The LRTP is periodically updated to ensure that transportation decisions are based on a plan that
contains current data and assumptions regarding a wide variety of information such as changes in
future population and employment assumptions, changes in travel patterns, and changes in revenue
and expenditure forecasts. The LRTP is also updated to add new transportation projects as part of
MTA’s transportation program, and which can be funded in later years as near term LRTP project
commitments are completed. State and federal transportation agencies require the LRTP to cover
a minimum twenty-year period.