Reminder: Metro will host two live, interactive telephone town hall meetings from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 4 and Thursday, April 5, to talk about Metro’s NextGen Bus [continue reading]
We posted in November about a proposed joint development adjacent to the Expo Line and future Crenshaw/LAX Line at the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards. Metro and Los Angeles [continue reading]
pdf here This is wonky but significant: Metro announced today that it will receive $482 million from the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) to help pay for a road safety project, a key transit project in the San Fernando Valley and a program to replace aging buses, as well as [continue reading]
Quite frankly, I’m thrilled about this. The Metro Board of Directors today approved a motion by L.A. Mayor and Board Chair Eric Garcetti to offer free rides on Earth Day [continue reading]
PDF of agenda here The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday at 9 a.m. for their regular monthly meeting. The agenda is above. The meeting will be webcast. Click on the ‘listen’ tab that will appear on this page once the meeting begins. The agenda is on the light side [continue reading]
Metro has implemented a one-year pilot program to assist Metro-certified Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) firms secure sufficient bonding to work on Metro construction projects. Metro will provide a bonding guarantee to qualified SBE, DBE, and DVBE firms to expand their [continue reading]
Metro will host two live, interactive telephone town hall meetings from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 4 and Thursday, April 5, to talk about your tax dollars at work and how they are being invested in the transportation revolution now in progress in Los Angeles County. Along [continue reading]
Update: you can watch/listen to a public hearing for the project that took place on April 12. *** A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been released for a project that [continue reading]
Above are the results from Metro’s semi-annual onboard customer satisfaction survey. Those who have followed this blog in the past will recognize many of the questions — and may notice [continue reading]
An economic impact report for SB 1 has been released by the California Alliance for Jobs, the California Transit Assn. and Transportation California. The report is above (or pdf here). As we posted last week, the state of California is considering the first allocations from SB 1. Metro is not [continue reading]
