The following news release was issued by Metro on Thursday: Crime on Metro’s bus and rail system has decreased 17 percent over the last five years, according to new crime statistics compiled by Metro. Between 2015 and 2019, total Part 1 and Part 2 crimes, known respectively as “serious” and [continue reading]
A federal grant totaling nearly $1.3 billion to help build the third and final phase of the Metro Purple Line Extension to the Westwood/VA Hospital in Westwood was sent today [continue reading]
Maps have been posted today that show proposed changes under the draft NextGen Bus Plan (Source post) to speed up buses and offer much more frequent service on the Metro [continue reading]
This February, you can attend a NextGen Bus Plan public workshop and a Regional Service Council meeting all at the same location. Most of the Councils will meet after one of their region’s workshops instead of at their regular times, except for Gateway Cities, which will meet before. The South [continue reading]
The January meeting of the Metro Board of Directors is in the books. The agenda is here. Among some of the notable items tackled: •The Board approved releasing the draft NextGen Bus Plan for public review. Please see this Source post for more info about the draft plan. Metro will [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday at 10 a.m. for its regular January meeting. A live webstream will he here once the meeting begins. The agenda is above or can be downloaded here. Some of the more interesting items the Board will tackle: •Formally releasing the draft NextGen Bus [continue reading]
As part of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, Metro is reminding the public how to help potential victims. Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. To put it more bluntly, human trafficking [continue reading]
In a big step forward for Metro’s efforts to restructure its vast bus system, the agency today released a draft service plan that would greatly improve the frequency of buses [continue reading]
More line letters will soon be coming your way! Most of you have probably already noticed our transition to the A Line (Blue) and E Line (Expo), and the brand [continue reading]
Happy New Year’s, folks. Some desk clearing… •If you missed it and have some time to kill, I managed (with hours to spare) to post our 2010s-in-review here. •For those of you who rode Metro to the Tournament of Roses, how did it go? Looked to me like all the [continue reading]
