Metro’s planning staff have issued their recommendations for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit Project, which proposes to install rush hour bus lanes in the curb lane of 8.7 miles of Wilshire Boulevard, mostly in the city of Los Angeles. Here’s the staff report. This is a project being built by [continue reading]
The first set of bonds to be repaid by Measure R sales tax receipts were sold last week, according to Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Last Thursday, we sold $732 million of Measure R bonds, made up of $574 million of taxable Build America Bonds and $158 [continue reading]
UPDATE 07/01/15: The free shuttle service is no longer offered on weekdays. During that time, BurbankBus now runs an all-day route between the Red Line station in NoHo and Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. A free shuttle is still offered on weekends and holidays. More information is available here. We’re a [continue reading]
That’s an average of more than 1,500 people per game that took the bus from Union Station to Dodger Stadium — pretty good numbers for the first full season of the bus service. Even better, more than 60 percent of the people who used the Dodger Stadium Express also used [continue reading]
One of the things we’ve been hearing from readers as part of our reader survey is that they would like more coverage of other things that Metro does besides the bus and rail service provided by the agency. That’s certainly a fair enough request, as Metro does have its hand [continue reading]
That’s the question asked by the L.A. Times in a strong weekend story by reporters Richard Simon and Dan Weikel. Republicans won the majority in the House of Representatives in last week’s elections and are vowing to cut spending — which could impact 30/10’s prospects of becoming law. The 30/10 [continue reading]
The Silver Line, the new transit service that runs on dedicated busways along the I-10 and I-110 between the El Monte Station and the Artesia Transit Center, opened just 11 months ago. Now plans are underway to build a new station for the Silver Line at the Patsaouras Transit Plaza [continue reading]
Lost in a lot of the election hub-bub is that Prop 22 won at the polls last night — at this hour it’s up by a 21 percentage point margin, according to the California Secretary of State. Prop 22 is intended to tighten state law to protect the Legislature from [continue reading]
I had the chance to sit in this morning with the subway planning team at Metro. It was the first time the entire team had gathered since Thursday, when the Metro Board of Directors approved the staff recommendation to build the Westside Subway Extension on an alignment mostly along Wilshire [continue reading]
I spent Friday at the annual Mobility 21 Transportation Summit, which was held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Mobility 21 is a group made up of businesses and transit agencies that works toward regional transportation improvements in Southern California. As for the summit, it mostly consists of panel discussions [continue reading]
