Podcast: Metro’s $5.5 billion budget
Our latest podcast features yours truly interviewing Drew Phillips, a budget officer with Metro. We try to explain where Metro gets its money and how the money is spent and [continue reading]
Video: Metro’s budget forum
Metro held a public forum on Saturday to discuss the upcoming budget for fiscal year 2015-16 that begins July 1. The two above videos cover the two-hour forum. The budget [continue reading]
Heads up! Metro holds public forum on budget this Saturday
The forum is Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at Metro headquarters adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station. It’s a chance to learn and discuss where Metro gets its money and how it spends those dollars. We’ll also soon be posting a podcast with a member of Metro’s budget team. Here’s [continue reading]
Video: Garcetti talks about potential Metro ballot measure
The video covers the last five minutes of Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Eric Garcetti’s remarks this morning to the MoveLA conference at Union Station. MoveLA is pushing for [continue reading]
Earth Day: Go Green and Go Metro
Metro held a media event this morning at its Central Maintenance Facility to demonstrate the amount of greenhouse gases reduced when a person takes public transit instead of driving. The concept of [continue reading]
Should the Orange Line be a rail line?
[scribd id=262499460 key=key-n5B38y8ZIGyNryYZ9Io8 mode=scroll] One of the more interesting staff reports sent to the Metro Board of Directors this month involves the potential of speeding up and improving the Orange [continue reading]
Everyone deserves a safe ride, don’t tolerate sexual harassment: It’s Off Limits
As a woman who spends the majority of her time traveling via foot and public transit, I am — unfortunately — no stranger to sexual harassment. I have seen people make lewd gestures to [continue reading]
Metro attacks sexual harassment with “off limits” campaign
This has been an issue since 2013 when Metro began asking customers about sexual harassment on its annual rider survey. The question was asked again in the 2014 survey: specifically, riders [continue reading]
City of Hawthorne held ribbon cutting for Hawthorne Boulevard Mobility Improvement Project
The City of Hawthorne held a ribbon cutting ceremony last week for the Hawthorne Boulevard Mobility Improvement Project. Metro provided approximately $10.5 million towards the project through 2009 Call for [continue reading]
Sustainable construction forum to be held April 13-14
Here is the news release: Los Angeles, CA. (Feb., 2015) –Presidential appointee Carolyn Flowers, Senior Advisor, U.S. Federal Transportation Administration ,will be the keynote speaker for the 2015 Sustainability Construction Forum & Tours. Los Angeles County Transportation Authority (Metro) and Los Angeles Sustainability Coalition (LASC) would like to invite you [continue reading]