As the year begins, we’re back with an important update on the Traffic Reduction Study to determine if, where, and how to test congestion pricing (i.e. tolls) in our region to reduce gridlock and offer better mobility options to everyone. We want to share some new information we’ve learned from [continue reading]
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 pandemic. You can watch [continue reading]
Metro’s Operations team and the Metro Board every month honor a pair of employees who are stellar at helping keep our bus and train system running. Please meet this month’s winners — both of whom accepted their award from Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins. In the top video, we honor Metro [continue reading]
Starting Monday, January 24, through Friday, January 28, C Line (Green) trains will share 1 track at Hawthorne/Lennox Station from open to close of service. During this time, crews will perform system repairs. Trains are scheduled to run every 15 minutes during the day and every 20 minutes after 9 [continue reading]
In October 2021, Metro announced that it was creating its first Youth Council to develop the capacity of young people to engage with and participate in Metro’s plans, projects, programs and initiatives. The first council members have been selected after receiving over 200 applications countywide. When selecting youth, staff were [continue reading]
This past fall semester, students from 26 alternative high schools across L.A. County looked to Metro Art for inspiration to create artworks about people and places of significance in their lives. Each school year, community arts [continue reading]
The Metro family joins the greater L.A. region in mourning the death of Sandra Shells, 70, a veteran nurse at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center who died Sunday from injuries suffered in an attack last week at a bus stop near Union Station. To honor Sandra Shells, Metro tonight and [continue reading]
Metro is planning a new light rail line that will run between Southeast L.A. County and downtown Los Angeles known as the West Santa Ana Transit Corridor. The Metro Board [continue reading]
Attention high school students with roots in the Crenshaw District, Inglewood, Westchester, the LAX community and adjacent areas! Metro invites students grades 9-12 to submit artwork that celebrates the unique character of the neighborhoods along the upcoming Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project corridor. <<CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE CONTEST>> Eight artworks, identified [continue reading]
As part of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Metro is reminding the public how to help potential victims. Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. To put it more bluntly, human trafficking is [continue reading]
