Two loose ends from today’s Board of Directors meeting: •The Board approved rolling passes for TAP cards — meaning that weekly and monthly passes will be good seven and 30 days from the time they’re purchased instead of being tied to the calendar. Metro’s target date to begin such sales [continue reading]
In the sixth hour of their monthly meeting on Thursday, the Metro Board just approved a $4.145 billion budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. It’s the largest budget in the agency’s history, mostly due to money being spent on the construction and planning of Measure R [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors voted Thursday to add an underground station in the heart of Leimert Park Village as part of the Crenshaw/LAX light rail line — but on one big condition. The station would only be built if funds, estimated at about $131 million, can be secured. The [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors approved a 7.7-mile route for the Wilshire peak hour bus lane project. The approval came as part of voting to adopt the final environmental impact report for the project and followed the Metro staff recommendation for the project. The vote was 10 to 0 11 [continue reading]
As of 1 p.m., here’s where we are: •The Board voted 10 to 3 to build the light rail line at street level between 48th and 59th streets in Park Mesa Heights. The motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas requested it be built underground. The votes to build underground were from [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors voted unanimously today to lower the cost of the day pass to $5 from $6 for a one-year test period beginning this summer. Here’s the staff report on the issue. One nice development: TAP cards preloaded with a day pass will be available on Metro [continue reading]
More than an hour of public testimony was taken over Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas’ motion to add a Leimert Park Village station and underground segment through the Park Mesa Heights neighborhood to the Crenshaw/LAX Line. The Board of Directors are now discussing the item. They also approved a motion by [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. America Fast Forward moves closer to becoming reality (L.A. Streetsblog) Led by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a bipartisan group of Senators on [continue reading]
The Board of Directors meeting began a few minutes ago and the first item to be considered is Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas’ motion to add a Leimert Park Village station to the Crenshaw/LAX Line as well as an underground segment between 48th and 59th streets. We’ll have coverage of the meeting [continue reading]
photo by kawabata, via Flickr Another interesting photo taken with an iPhone — this one was processed with the PhoneGrafer app. That’s a bus terminal in Tokyo. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to [continue reading]
