Metro is today releasing its budget [pdf] for the coming 2011-12 fiscal year. The highlights, in short: •The budget is $4.145 billion, which is 6.3 percent higher than last year, mostly due to more spending on Measure R projects. •Metro CEO Art Leahy is proposing to lower day passes from [continue reading]
Metro Board Chairman Don Knabe and Metro CEO Art Leahy are in Sacramento today, lobbying state lawmakers to not drastically cut funding in the ongoing state budget negotiations. Above, that’s Knabe meeting this morning with Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal, who chairs the Assembly’s transportation committee. Of course, Lowenthal is also a [continue reading]
With gas prices high and likely going higher by summer, Metro CEO Art Leahy is proposing to lower the cost of a Metro day pass from $6 to $5 effective July 1. The discount would be a test program lasting six months. The lower fare would not require public hearings [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”368″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvnmL9esBY[/youtube] Metro CEO Art Leahy discussed the latest happenings at Metro and fielded questions from the public at last week’s Transit Coalition meeting. TonyW79SFV has uploaded a video of the event to YouTube, it’s unedited and an hour long but contains some good nuggets of info throughout. Here [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors voted 7 to 6 on Thursday morning to approve changes to Metro bus service, including the cutting and shortening of some lines. The changes are scheduled to go into effect June 26. The changes amount to about 300,000 hours of service annually — about 100,000 [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors is scheduled to vote Thursday on proposed bus service changes that would take effect in June. On Tuesday evening, KCRW’s “Which Way L.A.?” featured a lengthy segment on the bus changes. Among the guests was Conan Cheung, who manages service planning and scheduling; Esperanza Martinez, [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy, in Washington for a transit conference, reported growing support for the 30/10 Initiative, also known as “America Fast Forward.” This time the endorsement comes from the American Public Transportation Assn., a Washington-based nonprofit which represents transit agencies (including Metro) and private firms involved in building and [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met in downtown Los Angeles for their monthly meeting Thursday morning and took action on several items of interest below. As of 11:45 a.m., the meeting is still in progress and the Board still has items to discuss in closed session. Please note that Los [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy is distributing the following message today to Metro customers and other interested parties. The statement concerns his views on the state of Metro’s transit operations and his views of the proposed service changes in June. A Spanish version follows the below English version: Since becoming Metro [continue reading]
Here’s the news from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s email to staff: The U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Representative John Mica (R-FL), will be holding a field hearing later this month in Los Angeles [continue reading]
