Embed from Getty Images Members of the public and private firms are invited to attend a Think You Can Solve Traffic Forum that Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation is holding on December [continue reading]
A $3 daily parking fee and monthly fee of $59 will go into effect on June 26 at three Metro stations along the Gold Line: APU/Citrus, Irwindale and Monrovia. Metro is targeting late June for most of the fees to go into effect. We’ll announce the exact date and details soon. [continue reading]
[scribd id=349260354 key=key-Xnb5Imv2TBEUcshNnHBa mode=scroll] (pdf here for download and printing) The complete recap is here. And here are some of the more interesting items that the Board tackled at its Thursday meeting: •On a 12 to 0 vote, the Board approved A motion to select the ‘Transportation System Management/Transportation Demand [continue reading]
Art of Transit So, a friend of mine won a 20-minute helicopter ride in a raffle and invited yours truly to tag along on Monday. And it figures: while up [continue reading]
From the Dept. of Grizzly Adams: I had the good fortune to spend the last few days active transporting around the Eastern Sierra. In this day and age, it’s pretty nice to be a few miles from the nearest road and to have no cell/internet access. Guess the name of this pass [continue reading]
[scribd id=298633891 key=key-qi6jRA3i94xyMVR15RqI mode=scroll] As you may have read by now, Metro staff are proposing a test program that would charge a $2 or $3 parking fee at nine rail [continue reading]
Some of the issues tackled by the Metro Board at today’s meeting: •The Board approved a budget of $30 million for a project that will add pedestrian gates on both [continue reading]
[scribd id=272300369 key=key-bXKgYWxUeey7iP0X5li4 mode=scroll] The Metro Board of Directors meets on Thursday at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station in downtown L.A. As usual, the meeting is open to the public. You can also listen online. The 13-member Board is comprised of elected officials and [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. Pick your social media poison! Garcetti offers back to the basics in first State of the City speech (L.A. Times) Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the new carpool lane [continue reading]
