Metro today launched Workforce Initiative Now-LA (WIN-LA), a groundbreaking workforce development program focused on creating career pathways in the transportation industry. Today’s event in downtown Los Angeles introduced WIN-LA to prime [continue reading]
Metro’s Board of Directors today approved five-year contracts for all five of its transit labor unions representing operators, maintenance workers, clerks, customer service agents, bus and rail transportation and maintenance supervisors and security officers. “This is a historic day for Metro, our unions and the people of Los Angeles County,” [continue reading]
Here is the most recent episode of Metro Motion, the agency’s show that airs on local cable television as well as YouTube. Click here for prior episodes.
Metro dedicated plaques on Tuesday for the late L.A. County leader and former Monrovia Mayor Bob Bartlett at its Monrovia Gold Line operations campus as well as the city’s Metro Gold Line Station. Metro’s operation campus on California Avenue has also officially been renamed to “Division 24: Robert ‘Bob’ Bartlett Monrovia [continue reading]
This is a really good piece and VICE asks all the right questions. As for Measure M, here is the spending list and the project descriptions. The Wall Street Journal [continue reading]
At Thursday’s Metro Board meeting, Metro CEO Phil Washington announced that the agency has begun an “action plan” to reduce delays that in recent months have plagued the Blue Line, Metro’s [continue reading]
Dept. of Sneak Peeks: Dept. of Groundhog’s Day: The Sierra snowpack is at its highest level for this time of the year since the mid-1990s, some of California’s reservoirs are [continue reading]
[scribd id=337548562 key=key-p2HZKGZiLnDIrFdBJimE mode=scroll] You can also download or print a pdf of the agenda from this link. The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. and will be streamed live once it begins. Metro CEO Phil Washington will also give his annual State of the Agency talk during his CEO [continue reading]
[scribd id=336494884 key=key-oNROpTNU0Apyt7ZrgyY7 mode=scroll] Click here for pdf for download and printing. Attachments to the report are here. With $1.6 billion in federal funding secured to extend the Metro Purple Line subway to Century City, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is now poised to recommend the international [continue reading]
Furthering its commitment to assist transit passengers who have experienced unwanted sexual contact, Metro today announced a first-of-its-kind 24/7 sexual harassment counseling hotline. The hotline, 1-844-Off-Limits (633-5464), will be staffed by counselors from the community advocacy organization Peace Over Violence, which has 45 years of experience counseling victims of sexual abuse [continue reading]
