pdf here The Metro Board of Directors meet at 9:30 a.m. for their regular monthly meeting at Metro HQ, adjacent to Union Station. As always, the meetings — held in the third floor Board Room — are open to the public and will be livestreamed. Among the items the Board [continue reading]
Please join us at upcoming community meetings for the LA River Path project, a proposed eight-mile, shared-use bicycle and pedestrian path extension between Elysian Valley and the City of Vernon, passing through downtown Los Angeles. Families are welcome! At the meeting you will have the opportunity to: Learn more about the project [continue reading]
Metro Chief Planning Officer Therese McMillan has announced that she has accepted the position of Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the Bay Area. Metro CEO Phil Washington will soon announce an interim CPO and that a national search will commence to permanently fill the position. Therese previously [continue reading]
Metro is holding three series of community meetings beginning later this month on the Artesia-to-downtown Los Angeles light rail project, also known as the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor [continue reading]
The next round of community meetings for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project will include an update on the study, including refined concepts for the San Fernando Valley-Westside connection and initial concepts for the Westside-LAX connection. The project proposes to build a fast, high-capacity transit line between the Valley and the [continue reading]
I’m very curious to hear everyone’s comments on the article that ran in the Los Angeles Times this morning. I highly encourage everyone to read it — no grazing please. The story is very good and thorough. The gist of it: Metro staff are recommending that congestion pricing — tolling [continue reading]
Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram We’re almost through the week (and the storms…) ◽️ photo 📸 @ssjr__13 ◽️ #losangeles #GoMetro #larain #greyscale A post shared by Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Jan 16, 2019 at 6:03pm PST Dept. of All the Transit News Fit to Print, Courtesy ABC [continue reading]
Metro’s MicroTransit project has posted an online survey. The project — which will go by the name Metro Ride — will offer shared, on-demand rides up to 20 minutes in length in service areas to be announced later in the year. Metro is currently working with three firms under contract [continue reading]
The Draft Environmental Impact Report for Metro’s Link Union Station (Link US) project was released Thursday. The report can be read here. Public comment is being accepted from today through March 4 and a public hearing is being held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 29 in the [continue reading]
Seattle has more construction cranes than any other U.S. city — again. Here's how the city stacks up against others. https://t.co/yIwpwMGHrp pic.twitter.com/RGNq0cAA3s — The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) January 16, 2019 L.A. gets a Silver Medal! A lot of them, as far as I can tell, are near transit lines. See: [continue reading]
