The Metro Board of Directors voted 7 to 6 on Thursday morning to approve changes to Metro bus service, including the cutting and shortening of some lines. The changes are scheduled to go into effect June 26. The changes amount to about 300,000 hours of service annually — about 100,000 [continue reading]
Among the items approved thus far by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday: •(Item 16) A motion by Board Members Antonio Villaraigosa, Gloria Molina and Richard Katz asking Metro CEO Art Leahy to prepare a master plan for Union Station, which Metro is in the process [continue reading]
Good morning, Source readers. The Metro Board of Directors meeting started a few minutes ago. As many of you know, the big item on today’s agenda is a vote on proposed bus service changes to take effect in June. If you would like more information and background on the proposed [continue reading]
[mappress mapid=”9″] It’s one of those planning questions that’s only — and I say ‘only’ sarcastically — several decades old: how to improve mass transit to Los Angeles International Airport? A study to answer that question may soon be underway. The Metro Board of Directors on Thursday is scheduled to [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors is scheduled to vote Thursday on proposed bus service changes that would take effect in June. On Tuesday evening, KCRW’s “Which Way L.A.?” featured a lengthy segment on the bus changes. Among the guests was Conan Cheung, who manages service planning and scheduling; Esperanza Martinez, [continue reading]
Metro issued a long news release today about its highway program — specifically the many projects either underway or in the planning stage. As the release states, Metro’s highway program is often overlooked because of the agency’s transit programs. But the highway program is important. The most recent Census Bureau [continue reading]
From the project’s web page at metro.net: Metro is continuing work on the Final EIS/EIR for the Westside Subway Extension. Please join us for the second round of community update meetings for this last planning phase of the project. At these meetings, Metro will provide feedback from the January community [continue reading]
This is the second story in our series examining how L.A. County’s 30/10 financing model could help other cities around the country. On the eve of the 21st Century, the citizens of Salt Lake City cut the ribbon on their first light rail project, a 15-mile line connecting downtown to [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy, in Washington for a transit conference, reported growing support for the 30/10 Initiative, also known as “America Fast Forward.” This time the endorsement comes from the American Public Transportation Assn., a Washington-based nonprofit which represents transit agencies (including Metro) and private firms involved in building and [continue reading]
I know there was a lot of reader interest — understandably — in the recent news that Metro intends to purchase Union Station. Many readers were pleased with the news, saying the station needs more amenities as the number of rail users increases. The deal is scheduled to close shortly [continue reading]
