[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQo7iW0NEU] A few months ago, Santa Monica held a pop-up street improvement event to show how Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo) can be improved. The event was very successful, with numerous participants stopping by and providing feedback. Check out the above video to see the temporary installations featured at the event, including traffic [continue reading]
Motions involving bathrooms at transit stations (or lack thereof), parking at transit stations (or lack thereof) and fares on the Orange Line (or lack of people actually paying for them) have all found their way onto the agenda for the Metro Board of Directors meeting this Thursday. In particular, the [continue reading]
This is an important issue because local transit agencies are currently prohibited from creating local hiring programs when using federal funds for projects. The rationale has been that all Americans should have access to jobs created with national funding, but the policy fails to take into account that most of [continue reading]
The issue of fare restructuring — and problems with Metro’s current fare structure — were discussed today by the Metro Board of Directors’ Finance, Budget & Audit Committee. Metro staff are currently finalizing fare restructuring options that will likely be released to the public in early 2014. Among options likely [continue reading]
[scribd id=185254302 key=key-24yz0cbvsddlcsrk08xs mode=scroll] First, the caveat: The Metro Board has not — emphasis on the HAS NOT part — decided to take a ballot measure to Los Angeles County voters. That said, in recent months, both the Board as a whole and individual members have said they want to [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=7520326] Although I’m normally allergic to panel discussions, I actually attended one last month at the Mobility 21 conference on self-driving cars that rose to the level of mighty interesting. The gist of the conversation: virtually ever major car company is pursuing self-driving cars, the technology is sound, the [continue reading]
[scribd id=183976593 key=key-1ipjgp9d8i5rlndr4gsm mode=scroll] With the Gold Line Foothill Extension project nearly 50 percent complete, it’s a good time to start pondering some of the development that will take place along the 11.5-mile route between eastern Pasadena and the Azusa/Glendora border. Thus, the above report from the city of Monrovia [continue reading]
Interesting legislative update from Metro CEO Art Leahy, on a nice shout-out from President Obama on the proposed America Fast Forward bond program: President Obama Backs America Fast Forward Bonds in Address at Port of New Orleans Earlier today, at an event held at the port of New Orleans, President [continue reading]
A trio of legislative updates are below from Metro CEO Art Leahy. The first one is perhaps the most interesting as it involves an issue we wrote about over the summer: a delay in receiving federal dollars because of the U.S. Labor Department’s concerns of California’s pension reform. The updates: [continue reading]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZZVZqT5PdY] The annual conference on transportation issues in our area is taking place today in downtown Los Angeles. The most interesting tidbit to burp out thus far: Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Eric Garcetti — in an introductory video (he is in D.C., lobbying for transportation funding — [continue reading]
