Metro and the city of Los Angeles are partnering to improve speed, frequency and reliability for the over 120,000 passengers who ride buses that serve the Grand Avenue and Olive [continue reading]
Metro will open its new Union Station Patsaouras Bus Plaza with the start of service this Sunday, November 1. The new platform will be used by bus lines that run [continue reading]
https://www.facebook.com/MayorOfLA/videos/683261955619796/ New dedicated bus lanes and protected bike lanes on 5th and 6th Streets in DTLA brought to you by Metro, @LADOTofficial & @MayorOfLA. Up to 80 buses per hour [continue reading]
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=276690363631451 Metro deployed its first zero emission electric bus on the G Line (Orange) on Monday following the completion of testing and the installation of electric bus charging units along [continue reading]
By Joshua Schank Metro Chief Innovation Officer Here’s the thing about a crisis: none of them are the same. We desperately seek historical parallels as we are doing now with past pandemics, previous economic downturns, and major social movements. But each crisis faces a unique set of circumstances, making it [continue reading]
In March, Los Angeles traffic as we know it vanished overnight after safer-at-home orders were issued. With the coronavirus beginning to claim lives, many of us would have welcomed the traffic back, and other signs of normalcy, in a heartbeat. Then, beginning in late May, city and county officials imposed [continue reading]
In a big step forward for Metro’s efforts to restructure its vast bus system, the agency today released a draft service plan that would greatly improve the frequency of buses [continue reading]
The end of the 2010s is upon us. Although I’m not one who thinks history fits neatly in 10-year boxes, this is a good chance to mull what has happened [continue reading]
A bird's eye view of a dedicated bus lane in action. We're moving nearly 70 buses an hour through the Flower Street bus lane each evening! pic.twitter.com/funsVVdX81 — Metro Los [continue reading]
•The LAT has a story on why the forecast completion of the Regional Connector has recently slipped from Dec. 2021 to spring/summer 2022. Among one of the challenges: labor shortages [continue reading]
