While that panel focused on how, even in a changing market,investors and developers who proceed with feasible projects cancreate additional housing, jobs, retail space and biomedicalactivities in many parts of Los Angeles, debate quickly got back totraffic. One speaker during the day's events offered asolution.

"We need to utilize public-private funding," said Roger Moliere,chief of the real property management and development departmentfor MTA of Los Angeles County."This kind of funding [can be] usedas employment and residential benefits…As far as private fundinggoes, lots of communities are willing to tax themselves fortransportation. They don't want to drive 45 minutes anymore andthen fight for a spot once they get Downtown."

Moliere highlighted some of the transit-oriented-developmentprojects that MTA is supporting along its Metro Red Line stops atHollywood and Vine, Wilshire and Vermont, and Wilshire andWestern.