Here is the email that Metro CEO Phil Washington sent to agency employees this afternoon: LA Metro Family, Early last month (March, 2016) the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, enacted an ordinance to protect its LGBT residents from discrimination. On Wednesday, March 23, 2016, North Carolina’s governor signed a controversial [continue reading]
Reminder: the next public meeting to learn more about the draft spending plan for Metro’s potential sales tax ballot measure is Monday at 6 p.m. at the Marvin Braude Constituent Center in Van Nuys. There are meetings across L.A. County this month — the full list is here (scroll down). [continue reading]
Reminder: A public meeting on the draft spending plan for Metro’s potential ballot measure will be held tonight in El Monte: Thursday, April 7th, 2016, 6–8pm Grace T. Black Auditorium [continue reading]
Michael Weinstein might have diagnosed what’s wrong with L.A. But can he fix it? (LA Weekly) The lede of this article by Hillel Aron is a jewel: the head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation sits in his 21st story office in Hollywood complaining about the new big buildings rising nearby. [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: The #metro expo line has really been crowded as a clown car. @metrolosangeles #whatsgoingonwithmetro pic.twitter.com/gXs8ltCQ8D — Rob Kuznia (@RobKuznia) April 4, 2016 Art of Transit 2: [continue reading]
Editorial: Whittier needs a Gold Line to call its own (SGV Tribune) The lede to the editorial about the Eastside Gold Line Extension project is buried in the second-to-last paragraph: But if the question is which one should be built first, we come down on the side of a Whittier line [continue reading]
Things to listen to whilst transiting: In 1983, President Ronald Reagan watched the movie “War Games” at Camp David. Returning to the White House, he asked the leaders of the U.S. [continue reading]
Really nice Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (@metrolosangeles) Things to read whilst transiting: the obituary for Robert [continue reading]
I’ve been AWOLish the past 10 days, so lots of catching up to do… Things to read whilst transiting: I don’t know why the New Yorker continues to give away [continue reading]
Metro tested all-door boarding on some key stops on the Rapid 720 bus last summer on Wilshire Boulevard. The study below provides the official results: the boarding of buses was [continue reading]
