Last August, in partnership with LA County Supervisor and First Vice Chair of the Metro Board Janice Hahn, we launched a contest to re-name a 14.5-mile light rail project that will [continue reading]
Metro is hosting three more community meetings on June 12, 14, and 15 to update the public on work on the route for the southern segment of the West Santa Ana Branch light rail project. The Metro Board of Directors last year selected a route from Pioneer Station in Artesia [continue reading]
Metro this week submitted a funding application package for three key light rail projects to compete for $1.9 billion in supplemental funding from the State of California. The funding would come from the state’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program, also known as TIRCP. The State is expected to announce [continue reading]
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has approved Metro’s request for entry into the Project Development Phase of the Capital Investment Grants Program for the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor Project. “I am pleased and thankful to the Biden Administration for advancing Metro’s West Santa Ana Branch project in the [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors approved Los Angeles Union Station as the northern terminus of the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor Project. The 14.8-mile Slauson/A Line to Pioneer route was also approved as the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for the project’s initial segment between Artesia and Downtown Los Angeles. [continue reading]
[scribd id=554811151 key=key-nDpxbRNxDYoDLCENKoQL mode=scroll] To download a pdf of the agenda, click here. The Metro Board of Directors had its first full meeting of 2022 today. The webstream of the meeting will be posted soon and we’ll add the link here as soon as we can. Here are some of [continue reading]
[scribd id=554811151 key=key-nDpxbRNxDYoDLCENKoQL mode=scroll] To download a pdf of the agenda, click here. The Metro Board of Directors has its first full meeting of 2022 at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22. As has been the case since March 2020, the meeting will be virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 [continue reading]
[scribd id=542190797 key=key-irCKgWsMpiruZM7Y4GbE mode=scroll] A pdf download of the agenda is here along with links to all Metro staff reports. The Metro Board of Directors held its final meeting of 2021 on Thursday. The agenda for the meeting and an archived livestream of the meeting are above. Please see this [continue reading]
The final artist we’re featuring in our four-part series Nos Vemos/We See Us, which highlights arts-based approaches to community engagement to help inform future transportation investments in the Southeast L.A. area, is Metro [continue reading]
We invite you this week to meet a third Nos Vemos/We See Us artist – part of Metro Art’s ongoing series this fall! Billy Montenegro, the founder of the SELA Photography Club, is [continue reading]
