Section 130300 Of Article 5. Transportation Planning And Programming From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 12. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 5.
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. The Legislature finds and declares:
(a) That the near-term programming and budgeting requirements of
state and federal law is a cooperative intergovernmental planning
process intended to determine the foreseeable capital and operational
needs of a multimodal transportation system.
(b) That there is an absence of an adequate forum in which local
officials may exercise leadership in multimodal transportation
planning and programming.
(c) Therefore, it is in the public interest to define the roles of
various public entities with respect to long-range system planning
and short-range capital and service planning and programming
processes.