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Sasaki transportation services, INC. p.o. box 5159 lagun a beach, ca 92652 (949) 376-6613 October 11, 2011 Park Mesa Heights Community Council South Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils 5349 Crenshaw Boulevard, Suite 107 Joint Committee on Rail Transit Los Angeles, California 90043 3761 Stocker Street, Suite 108 Los Angeles, California 90008 SUBJECT: Professional Traffic/Transportation Review of the Crenshaw/LAX Corridor Project FEIS/FEIS/R and Associated Issues Dear Residents and Stakeholders of the Pa rk Mesa Heights Community: This letter provides a professional Traffic/Transportation Engineering review of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor, Final Environmental Impact Statement/Final Environmental Impact Report ” (“FEIS/R ”) dated August 2011, on behalf of the Park Mesa Heights Community Council & South Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Joint Committee on Rail Transit. The Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”) is the federal lead agency and Metro serves as the lead State Agency, for this joint NEPA (EIS) and CEQA (EIR) document. Given the volumes of materials generated for this proposed “Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor”  project (“Project”) and constrained time frames, these comments should be considered as representative, but not likely a complete and total summary of all FEIS/R defects and issues of concern. It is also possible some responses to our comments may already be contained within the existing FEIS/R, as we were unable to review “every page.” This, however, should not detract from our review; the point is there are deficiencies within the existing documents, we have identified in this letter. Our comments serve to highlight significant traffic/transportation technical concerns/issues/defects and/or related CEQA is sues, found during our review of the FEIS/R. In addition, we focused more closely on issues related to the proposed “at grade” (i.e., street-level)  portion of the proposed Project on Crenshaw Boulevard between 48 th Street and 60 th Street in the community of Park Mesa Heights. For some issues we also referenced the “Crenshaw Transit Corridor Project, Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Draft Environmental Impact Report (“DEIS/R ”) dated September 2009, as well as other associated materials.  

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