The Metrolink Board of Directors this morning hired Metro Deputy CEO Stephanie Wiggins as Metrolink’s next CEO. Metrolink runs regional commuter rail across five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura with service also to Oceanside in San Diego County. Here is the statement on Stephanie’s hiring [continue reading]
Warming up… View this post on Instagram TOS, Transit Oriented 🌅 A post shared by Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Dec 10, 2018 at 5:00pm PST Metro is excited to announce FAStops, a bus stop balancing project aimed to speed up your ride: https://t.co/lARilKP0Y5 pic.twitter.com/pMxMVdr2ZZ — Cincinnati Metro (@cincinnatimetro) December 11, [continue reading]
pdf here The final Board meeting of the year was a very long one, clocking in at six-plus hours and involving a wide variety of issues. Among the actions taken today: •The Board approved a plan to designate Metro’s rail and bus rapid transit lines with colors and letters in [continue reading]
Metro announced on Thursday that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Aerial Rapid Transit Technologies LLC (ARTT), an action that formally begins the negotiations necessary to make a [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors’ final meeting for 2018 is Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at Metro HQ adjacent to Union Station. As always, the meeting is open to the public and will also be livestreamed. The agenda with links to staff reports and presentations is above. Among the [continue reading]
pdf here Metro purchased Union Station in 2011 and since has been implementing or studying a variety of improvements to increase the facility’s capacity in terms of both trains and [continue reading]
Planning continues to move forward for a light rail line to run between downtown Los Angeles and Artesia, a project known as the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor. The rail line [continue reading]
December is here, which means new bus schedules are coming soon, and a new year is right around the corner. Only the San Fernando Valley and Gateway Service Councils will meet in December; the other Service Councils will go dark until January. Both will receive the FY19 Q1 Station Evaluation [continue reading]
pdf of presentation here and report with all attachments Over the past several months, Metro staff and the Metro Board have been considering an operations plan for the Crenshaw/LAX Line [continue reading]
A 51-year-old Commerce man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the stabbing death of Xuezhong Bao, 62, on the Gold Line on Tuesday. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, police were first called when the southbound train was at Irwindale Station and police met the [continue reading]
