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City of Compton's Blue Line Tellevillage
City of Compton's Blue Line Tellevillage
Pages 331-342
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The TeleVilIage is a virtual Main Street which connects people electronically through a Telework Center, a computer lab with Internet access, a video conference center, and interactive kiosks. Funded by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
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On a late July afternoon, there were 19 in the Lab: · a woman working on a Youth Ministry project · two adults updating their resumes · a "20-something" woman chatting with friends in Atlanta · a man checking his stocks and mutual funds a woman working on her business a man bringing up an Amway site 7 youngsters playing computer games a youngster and a middIe-aged man surfing the Internet a man waiting for a computer to type a letter a junior college volunteer helping others to · · #` . gain experience tor llS resume an employee overseeing the Lab 2
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Although initially envisioned as a center where those employed a distance away could work near home a few days a week, the Telework Center is actually used primarily by entrepreneurs. These budding business owners sign up for use of the private work spaces to make phone calls and compose letters for their fledgling enterprises while having the resources of the City of Compton's Business Assistance program also located there.
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It will become part of a one-stop job training center, where welfare recipients will be enrolled in computer courses and distance learning classes. The day care program, which is already available in the Transit Center, will be joined by an unemployment office, where welfare recipients can apply for job placement assistance.
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users, conducted in April and June, 1997, reports the following modes of travel to the TeleVilIage: Drive Carpoo! Walk Bike Transit Taxi 443 11 451 16 660 109 150 4 Blue Line raid MTA Bus Compton bus MTA rail and 397 bus o Figure 1 depicts the results of the survey in percentages of those travelling by each mode.
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Teacher training, which would help fast-track certification to meet the demands of California's class size reduction program and prepare teachers for bilingual classrooms; Family reunions, where Compton citizens could reunite via teleconference with distant family members; Job interviews in the Video Conference Center, which would allow job applicants to seek employment in other parts of the state or nation without having to travel to the interview; · Additional workshops to address community interests, such as how to fix a computer or how to create computer-generated invitations; Real estate searches, where families could view the housing opportunities in other parts of the county, state or nation via computer; and Wiring housing developments for cable television so that children who have no books to take home from the impoverished L.A. School District could receive educational seminars produced in the TeleVilIage through their televisions at home.
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Instead of serving the present dispersed urban form, transportation in the form of circulating community shuttles, demand-responsive vans, and electric vehicles could bring residents on short trips into the neighborhood centers. Retail shopping, schools, doctors and government services would be clustered there physically or electronically through the TeleVilIages.
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AS one way of addressing this issue, the Boardmember who initially spearheaded the Compton TeleVilIage believes that MTA needs to formulate a strategic plan to tie the TeleVilIages together. She shares the consultant's larger vision creating a community center when transit is involved in joint development around its stations or with its fiber optic resources.
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For example, the opening of a new civic center or library could be an opportunity for the transit agency to develop this joint project. The former Boardmember who championed the Compton TeleVilIage sees it as a way of giving life to the lip service about Livable Communities.
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REFERENCES (~) Siembab, Walter, "TeleCity Strategy for Sustainable, Livable Communities: The Blue Line TeleVilIage in Compton, California," September, 1996, Los Angeles.
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