A pilot project that offers shared, on-demand rides to and from three busy Metro stations — Artesia, El Monte and North Hollywood — was launched today by Metro and the [continue reading]
Metro’s Board of Directors voted 10 to 0 on Thursday to continue the Reimagining LA County Plan to February. In plain English, that means nothing was decided one way or the other about anything and, as of 2:05 p.m. PST, the world continued to gently churn on its axis. With [continue reading]
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 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]
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]
Metro Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Pauletta Tonilas has announced that she has accepted the position of Assistant General Manager, Communications, at the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver. Metro CEO Phil Washington will name an interim CCO and said that a national search for Pauletta’s replacement will soon commence. Pauletta [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: Metro proposes to offer free rides to students of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in the event of a teachers’ strike that may begin on Thursday, January 10. Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington, in consultation with L.A. County Supervisor and Metro Board [continue reading]
And so it begins…2019. Among the transpo-related news in the first week of the new year: •LAUSD teachers could go on strike beginning Thursday. The district says that schools will [continue reading]
