Saying Southern California has been shortchanged on money for transportation projects, State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez called today for the resignation of Roger Snoble as head of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Nunez, a Democrat from Los Angeles, was reacting to a California Transportation Commission decision to give five Southern California counties $1.6 billion for projects aimed at improving the flow of goods through ports and along highways and rail lines.

Nunez charged that Snoble agreed to a bad deal that gave Los Angeles County short shrift early in the competition for funds, and that the agency failed to provide enough projects that could compete for the money.

Southern California is home to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which combined handle 85% of the shipping cargo containers that move through California.

“Over this issue, Snoble should go,” Nunez said. “He screwed this thing up. He did so much damage to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This guy should step down.”

MTA spokesperson Marc Littman said the agreement on how the money should be distributed involved several transportation executives from the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.

Littman said Snoble had fought hard to get the commission to provide $2.2 billion to Southern California, and said he would continue to seek that amount.

Projects to be funded by the plan approved today include replacing two bridges, widening parts of highways, and digging a trench along a light rail route so cars do not have to stop for trains.

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