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Marie Sullivan

Metro releases paper on updating affordable housing policy in response to area’s housing crisis

Metro’s Joint Development team is in the process of updating the agency’s affordable housing policy. The program allows Metro to collaborate with qualified developers to build transit-oriented developments on Metro-owned properties — usually parcels left over from construction of transit projects.  As part of the policy update, the J.D. team has released [continue reading]

2012 Ridership visualized!

Riding is beautiful! These maps show average weekday ridership numbers from fiscal year 2012 (that’s July 2011 through June 2012). The first bubble map shows where Metro Rail passengers are boarding trains that are headed into downtown Los Angeles, the county’s number one job center. The second bubble map shows [continue reading]