Policy & Funding

Metro cosponsors infrastructure finance forum

Just wanted to provide a quick heads-up for those very interested in public policy: Metro is a co-sponsor of the Public Infrastructure Finance Forum being held May 25 at the California Science Center. The event is free but it appears from the event website that there is already a waitlist.

About those monorails…

There’s been some murmurings about town recently about building monorails-along-freeways as a mass transit fix for the region. As long-time transit observers know, the monorail idea has, in fact, been kicked around before. The above plan, floated in 1960, never got airborne because of community opposition, in particular, to an [continue reading]