[scribd id=231441220 key=key-PNTdl1Kr8tCIbRZjxo5k mode=scroll] Metro Board Chair Diane DuBois has dropped the gavel on the June meeting on the Metro Board of Directors. The agenda is above. Click here for the regular online version here with links to staff reports. If not here in person, you can listen to the meeting over [continue reading]
[scribd id=221484783 key=key-24cq9hfx0mhfs38g08kn mode=scroll] Here is the news release from Metro and the proposed budget is above: A public hearing is set for 1 p.m. on May 14, 2014 to hear comment on Metro’s proposed balanced $5.508 billion Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) budget, set to begin July 1, 2014. The [continue reading]
October Board of Directors agenda Good morning, Source readers! Metro Board Chairwoman Diane DuBois has just dropped the gavel on the October meeting of the agency’s Board of Directors, the 13-member group that serves as the ultimate deciders for Metro. The agenda is above. It doesn’t quite have the appearance [continue reading]
Crenshaw/LAX Line contract report Above is the Metro staff report to the agency’s Board of Directors recommending that Walsh/Shea be contracted to build the Crenshaw/LAX Line light rail project. Here is our post from Friday explaining the recommendation along with background about the project.
The Metro Board voted Thursday morning to direct staff to continue planning on second- and third decade Measure R projects — the idea is have projects ready to be constructed if funds become available to accelerate them. The Board also approved the following amendment by Board Members Diane DuBois, Gloria [continue reading]
And the usual reminder that the Metro Board of Directors is back in action Thursday for their first full meeting since early August. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Board Room on the 3rd floor of Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. It is, [continue reading]
Metro’s Board of Directors previously asked staff to prepare a report on the cumulative impact of bus service changes made by the agency between 2007 and 2011. A preliminary report by staff is now available and concludes: Based on the data collected to date, overall there was a negligible cumulative [continue reading]
The hearing requested by the city of Beverly Hills on the Century City station location for the Westside Subway Extension has now concluded. As expected, the Board of Directors did not take any action on selecting a route for the subway and station location in Century City. The basic dispute: [continue reading]
This Metro staff proposal to seek voter approval for an extension of the Measure half-cent sales tax past its 2039 sunset was briefly discussed by the Board of Directors’ Executive Management committee on Thursday morning, including some interesting morsels on the Gold Line Foothill Extension project. Supervisor and Board Vice [continue reading]
We frequently hear from readers and riders who want to know if Metro will be providing cell phone service and/or wi-fi in the Red and Purple Line subway. Answer: the agency is working on it and has recently received proposals from several firms. The hope is to choose a winning [continue reading]
