•The Board approved a motion by Board Chair and Supervisor Mike Antonovich that Metro take a position of support for a federal loan application for Desert Xpress project, which proposes to connect Las Vegas, Victorville and Palmdale by high-speed rail. The motion does not involve any financial support for the [continue reading]
Good morning, Metro riders and interested parties. The monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors is now underway here at Metro headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. You can listen in by phoning 213-922-6045. Here’s the agenda.
The Expo Line opened in late April and since then we’ve received a steady trickle of comments from Metro customers saying that it’s difficult to differentiate Expo Line and Blue Line trains at the two stations they share — 7th/Metro Center and Pico. A few passengers have even complained of [continue reading]
Below is the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of the full Metro Board of Directors (pdf version here). The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Board room on the 3rd floor of Metro headquarters that is adjacent to Union Station in downtown L.A. You can listen to the meeting online [continue reading]
The news: the transponders that are required to use the ExpressLanes are now available online, at a new customer centers in Gardena and El Monte and through the Auto Club. A press event is being held this morning and all the details are below in the news release from Metro: [continue reading]
What is the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor? Perhaps not as well known as some of the others, the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor is one of the 12 Measure R transit projects. The project is currently in the Alternatives Analysis (AA) phase in which different types of [continue reading]
Metro pulled in a couple of nice federal grants on Thursday — including money to help build the pedestrian tunnel under Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood between the Red Line station and Orange Line platform. The Daily News also published a good story with more details. Work is expected to [continue reading]
LATE NIGHT SERVICE: In terms of late night train frequency, Los Angeles County is now on par with New York City. Yes, that New York City. The one with the big subway system and superheroes. As you probably have heard, Metro is planning to run all of its rail lines [continue reading]
Gov. Jerry Bown and other elected officials gathered at Union Station on Wednesday morning to sign a bill authorizing the state to sell $4.7 billion in bonds to build 130 miles of high-speed rail track between Bakersfield and Madera in the San Joaquin Valley and fund local transit improvements [continue reading]
With the possibility that Los Angeles County voters will be considering a Measure R extension on the November ballot, Metro has been getting a lot of questions from customers and media. The big one: will Metro have to raise fares to have the money to operate new Measure R transit [continue reading]
