Billions at stake at MTA

City activists and officials across the county are expected to battle before the Metro board today over billions of dollars worth of transit projects and a proposed half-percent sales tax to help pay for them. Sue Doyle in the Daily News.

As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shapes the region's latest long-range plan, San Fernando Valley activists hope to snag hundreds of millions of dollars to ease the area's worsening congestion.

They are pushing for an extension of the Red Line subway to Bob Hope Airport, more car-pool lanes on the Ventura Freeway and new funds to run city buses in Burbank, among other projects.