Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board member Mark Ridley-Thomas and Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington today visited the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks [continue reading]
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]
Metro, in partnership with the County of Los Angeles and the SEED Foundation, today broke ground on the Vermont Manchester Transit Priority Project, which will dramatically transform a dirt lot the size of two city blocks that has been blighted for almost 30 years. After acquiring the property through eminent [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]
Over the summer, Transit — Metro’s official app — began using recent ridership numbers to predict crowding levels on Metro buses. Now, riders can help contribute! Every time you ride [continue reading]
In Los Angeles, the Bureau of Street Services (StreetsLA) is responsible for overseeing and managing the L.A. bus shelter program with Outfront/JCDecaux, and they have recently added a new amenity [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]
