Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti joined Metro CEO Art Leahy and others in a dedication and renaming ceremony for Metro Bus Division 3 earlier today. In February [continue reading]
•Item 17. The Board approved a motion by several Board Members (Don Knabe, Eric Garcetti, Jacquelyne Dupont-Walker, Mike Bonin, James Butts and Mark Ridley-Thomas) directing Metro staff to report back on a cost and schedule comparison of building a rail station at Aviation/96th as part of the Crenshaw/LAX Line versus [continue reading]
[scribd id=260040283 key=key-Dyg4IKJE2zXmSjis7wIr mode=scroll] Attentive readers know that last year’s fare increase and changes were part of a larger proposal by Metro staff to raise fares in three stages in [continue reading]
[scribd id=259964359 key=key-h3PHoHk3MpSw4AzgYAcM mode=scroll] The Metro Board meeting is underway at Metro Headquarters, adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station (it’s the tower next to the Patsaouras Transit Plaza). The agenda for the meeting is above. The agenda includes links to Board motions and Metro staff reports. I encourage everyone to peruse [continue reading]
[scribd id=259323131 key=key-pjT6ErrgujZbLEL5zUDm mode=scroll] Above is a recent presentation by Metro staff that drills down deeper on the issue of ridership. Ridership on Metro increased three percent overall between 2010 and 2014 (including a 21 percent increase on Metro Rail) but has declined on both the agency’s buses and trains since last [continue reading]
Key stat: Bus operators were assaulted 138 times by passengers in 2014, a 35 percent increase since 2012. With about 345 million annual bus boardings, assaults are still relatively rare [continue reading]
[youtube https://youtu.be/XZWMsmY7SIY] Rep. Karen Bass (D-37th District) praised Metro’s local hiring program during testimony at the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. Bass wrote the legislation for a federal pilot program that will allow transportation agencies to consider hiring local workers for future transit and highway project that use federal funds. Up to now, [continue reading]
If you prefer, here’s an unedited version of the video that runs about 14 minutes. Here is the news release from the office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who [continue reading]
Quite a couple of days at the Metro headquarters building. On Thursday, Metro officially hired its next CEO, Phil Washington, and today Metrolink’s Board of Directors approved outgoing Metro CEO [continue reading]
As always, a fun forum last night at MOCA in DTLA from our friends and partners at Zocalo Public Square. The question assigned to the panel for discussion: is car culture dead? The video is above. Here’s a link to the Zocalo article on the event, which also includes a [continue reading]
