Metro CEO Phil Washington participated in the “Path Forward,” an online event Monday, April 27, that was hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and looked at the many questions facing the transportation sector during recovery from the current pandemic. In the above audio, the section with Phil begins at [continue reading]
Today’s coronavirus numbers from the L.A. County Department of Public Health: @lapublichealth 52 New Deaths Related to #COVIDー19 & 1035 New Cases of Confirmed COVID-19 in Los Angeles County. 18,517 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County, and a total of 848 deaths. View https://t.co/zz4bx7vXy4 for more. [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors held its April meeting on Thursday virtual-style in keeping with the current safer-at-home orders and social distancing. The audio feed will be posted here within the next few work days. In his monthly report, Metro CEO Phil Washington talked about the ongoing pandemic. [continue reading]
Dept. of Good Funding News (Non virus news!) On behalf of the agency, a big thank you to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board, which earlier this week approved $423 million in funding for Metro’s Link Union Station project, which will allow trains to enter/exit Union Station from both [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday at 10 a.m. In order to comply with local and state directives limiting the number of people that can gather, the Board will forgo holding meetings at Metro headquarters and is instead holding a meeting online. [continue reading]
Spotted at Church and Avenue 64! Thanks for the shoutout to our incredible operations and maintenance teams, who continue in service for essential travel. And thank you for staying home [continue reading]
Dept. of Miss You, Too: View this post on Instagram “My Love, The Expo Line” a short film about love, loss and light rail 🥀 A post shared by Aria [continue reading]
Google posted this nice video earlier this week and Metro is proud that the very first shot is of our own Senior Service Attendant Sergio Lopez, who works at our Division 13 bus facility in downtown L.A. We really can’t say enough about the great work our frontline staff has [continue reading]
UPDATE: In response to rider feedback and other metrics, Metro is making the following changes to the schedules of several bus lines: STARTING MAY 11, 2020 Line 125 (Rosecrans): Two [continue reading]
The latest numbers from the L.A. County Department of Public Health as of Friday afternoon and the county has also extended safer-at-home orders until May 15. Testing is expanding but until it becomes more common, we probably won’t have a complete picture of how many cases of COVID-19 there are [continue reading]
