Help us continue to shape the Customer Experience Plan
Going Metro should be easy, comfortable, safe and fast, so we’ve developed a Customer Experience Plan that focuses on 10 areas where we can improve to make riding better for [continue reading]
Preview of February Service Council meetings
This month, all Service Councils will hear an update on the Traffic Reduction Study and a NextGen Bus Speed Engineering Working Group Update, which is working on bus supportive infrastructure projects to speed up the bus system in support of the NextGen Bus Plan. Last but not least, all Councils [continue reading]
Purple (D Line) Extension pays homage to the designs of Master Architect Paul R. Williams
With Black History month now underway, we wanted to focus on Paul Revere Williams (Feb. 18, 1894 – Jan. 23, 1980), a leading practitioner of mid-century modern design in Southern California and the first Black architect to become a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1923. Metro’s [continue reading]
Recap of Metro Board of Directors’ January meeting
[scribd id=492206855 key=key-WKRucfEAfDw7pyLRr4rP mode=scroll] [scribd id=492906083 key=key-ruKKlb0vC8G9Mq7w9ykQ mode=scroll] Agenda pdf is here. Recap pdf is here. The Metro Board of Directors met virtually last Thursday, Jan. 28. You can watch/listen to the webstream (embedded below) of the four hour, 35-minute meeting — there is a tool at the previous link [continue reading]
Work begins on Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for C Line (Green) Extension to Torrance
The C Line (Green) Extension to Torrance project is studying light rail transit options between the existing Redondo Beach Station and the under-construction Torrance Transit Center. Trains from both the Metro C Line (Green) and the future Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project may run on this new extension. A previous study — [continue reading]
TAP App now available on both iPhone and Android phones
Riders on Metro and 25 other transit systems in Los Angeles County can now add TAP cards to their Android smartphones, in addition to their iPhones, beginning today. The TAP [continue reading]
Metro releases paper on updating affordable housing policy in response to area’s housing crisis
Metro’s Joint Development team is in the process of updating the agency’s affordable housing policy. The program allows Metro to collaborate with qualified developers to build transit-oriented developments on Metro-owned properties — usually parcels left over from construction of transit projects. As part of the policy update, the J.D. team has released [continue reading]
Hey L.A. County employers, property managers and nonprofits, want to participate in a pilot to ease traffic?
What if we all worked together to give people more options to driving? Metro is developing a $1.3-million Travel Rewards Research Pilot Project to identify and test the most effective incentives to persuade travelers to skip driving alone and instead choose transit, carpooling, walking, bicycling or telecommuting with an Accelerating [continue reading]
Metro Micro expands Monday to three new service zones: Compton/Artesia, El Monte and North Hollywood/Burbank
Metro Micro will expand into three new zones in Compton/Artesia, El Monte and North Hollywood on Monday, January 25. These areas are currently served by Metro’s Mobility on Demand pilot [continue reading]
Surge in COVID-19 poses challenge to Metro Rail projects
Another sign of the times: the significant local increase in COVID-19 cases poses a challenge to the five rail construction projects that Metro oversees. These projects include the three sections of the Purple (D Line) Extension, the Regional Connector Transit Project and the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. The numbers tell the [continue reading]