In a major defeat for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a federal appeals court on Friday ordered the transit agency to buy hundreds of new buses to relieve overcrowding throughout Los Angeles County. The long-awaited decision, which took 16 months for the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to hand down, rejects the MTA's appeal of a court order issued more than two years ago by the chief U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles calling for the agency to buy 248 additional buses.
"In a major defeat for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a federal appeals court on Friday ordered the transit agency to buy hundreds of new buses to relieve overcrowding throughout Los Angeles County...
"In a strongly worded 2-1 ruling, the appeals court found that the MTA has failed to comply with a landmark October 1996 consent decree intended to limit the number of passengers who are forced to stand while riding on the agency's buses..."
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