The Metro Board of Directors held their September meeting today. Here’s the agenda. The full recap will be posted here. Among the actions taken by the Board: • Unanimously approved round two of SR-710 North Corridor Mobility Improvement Projects, which would see the development and implementation of additional corridor mobility [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Today’s profile of a Metro rider by Zocalo Public Square: I carry a Bible on the bus, Don Felipe Drive to Pico Boulevard. In between bicycling stats: with Dennis Hindman [continue reading]
Adios bus stairs, here comes the “Low Rider.” Bus riders in Los Angeles County will no longer have to climb stairs to board a Metro Bus on any of Metro’s 170 bus lines beginning August 30. That’s the date when Metro will be officially retiring its very last high-floor transit buses [continue reading]
Photos by Josh Southwick/Metro Did you know that by riding public transit for one day, you can reduce your carbon footprint by 20 pounds? Metro’s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bus fleet is the largest in the nation, and more than 92% of air toxic pollutants have been reduced with the [continue reading]
Each weekday, there are about 1.5 million boardings on Metro buses and trains across Los Angeles County. It takes a lot of energy to move all those people; fuel is needed for buses while electricity powers trains and Metro’s many facilities across Los Angeles County. In the past few years, [continue reading]
A media event was held at Metro on Friday afternoon to celebrate two recent grants from the Federal Transit Administration: $25 million for the purchase of about 60 new compressed natural gas-powered buses and $9.6 million for a new Silver Line station at Patsaouras Plaza at Union Station. The grant [continue reading]
Good news today for Metro: the agency has been awarded two grants from the Federal Transit Administration: •$25 million for the purchase of new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. Attentive readers will recall that Metro earlier this year retired its last diesel bus, with the vast majority of Metro buses [continue reading]
