Los Angeles Aam Comment DOT Ost 2023 0079 0348 Attachment 1

RE: RFI Response: Advanced Air Mobility, Docket No. DOT–OST–2023–0079 The City of Los Angeles appreciates the opportunity to submit comments to Docket No. DOT-OST-2023-0079 on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). AAM provides cities an opportunity to enhance their transportation networks and provide a new mobility option that improves safety, access, and reliability for residents. This letter incorporates input from various City departments, agencies, and elected offices, to convey critical local perspectives that can inform a national strategy that effectively regulates AAM. In Los Angeles, decades of vehicle oriented planning redirected investments to streets and freeways designed to move cars as quickly as possible from suburban hubs to urban job centers. Today, cities like Los Angeles are working to repair the harm caused by decisions that continue to disproportionately burden low income communities of color with higher rates of traffic deaths and poor air quality, and less access to jobs and critical services. The City of Los Angeles is focused on ensuring that every Angeleno has dignified, reliable, safe, and affordable mobility options because nobody should be denied education, employment, housing, or healthcare because they don’t have access to reliable transportation. How we narrow and ultimately eliminate the divide in transportation is the most critical issue for transportation professionals to solve at every level of government, and one that USDOT has also made a key priority. This commitment must be reflected in a national AAM strategy that delivers mobility options that meet community needs, without unintended consequences. Local engagement must inform the…

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