pdf here The Metro Board of Directors held its regular October meeting virtually on Thursday, Oct. 22. The agenda for the meeting is above. A recording of the webstream is here or watch below. Among the items that the Board took action on: •The Board on a 10-1 vote approved [continue reading]
The NextGen plan to restructure Metro’s vast bus system was approved on Thursday by the Metro Board of Directors on a 10 to 1 vote. The plan will increase frequency of buses, improve service on most routes and put more buses in areas with the greatest demand. NextGen has been [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors will hold its regular October meeting virtually on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting will be livestreamed here. The agenda for the meeting is above. Live Public Comment Instructions: –Live public comment can only be [continue reading]
On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 10:45 p.m. at 7th/Metro in downtown Los Angeles, the suspect became involved in a verbal dispute with the victim on a B Line (Red) train. The dispute escalated and the suspect armed herself and fatally stabbed the victim (Friday’s Source post). Here is the [continue reading]
Metro is accepting applications beginning Monday, October 19, for members of the public who want to join a new Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC). This is an excellent opportunity to [continue reading]
In March at the onset of safer-at-home orders, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti relaxed parking enforcement across the city of Los Angeles as part of the emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Citations were halted for several types of parking violations to help Angelenos cope with the many impacts of [continue reading]
This Saturday, Oct. 10, is the 10th anniversary of the first CicLAvia in L.A. County. That first CicLAvia was followed by many great open streets events in the past decade [continue reading]
Metro invites the public to participate in a virtual public scoping meeting for the Link Union Station (Link US) Project on Thursday, October 8, as part of the project’s environmental review process. The Link US Project will build ‘run-through’ tracks at Union Station that will allow Metrolink and Amtrak trains [continue reading]
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been receiving questions about the I-605 Corridor Improvement Project. In particular, many of the questions concern whether properties would need to be acquired and demolished to build the project. Before going any further, we want to be abundantly clear: Metro has made no decisions [continue reading]
It’s time to resume one of this blog’s regular features over the years: transportation headlines + Other Metro Stuff as curated by yours truly. I figure when you’ve grown weary of all other headlines, there’s always that special breed that is media articles about gettin’ around. Let’s begin with the [continue reading]
