Attentive Source readers will recall that the Board of Directors of Metro last month were set to consider a motion by Directors John Fasana and Gloria Molina to launch a new round of studies to consider how to improve traffic in the area around the gap of the 710 freeway [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy just finished an appearance on Airtalk on KPCC. The program focused on the budget revision that will be released later today by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Leahy made three key points: *If the state withdraws operating funds for transit agencies, Metro could be looking at 10% to [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Washington D.C. today to testify before Congress on the 30/10 Initiative that Metro is pursuing. Attentive readers will recall that the 30/10 plan proposes to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the next 10 years instead of the next 30. Villaraigosa [continue reading]
With Bike to Work Day coming net week, the city of San Francisco has been increasing its bike infrastructure around town. One of the recently-completed projects was to paint a bike lane on Market Street. Streetsblog San Francisco has a nice post. Excerpt: Papandreou and his team noted that even [continue reading]
Metro staff released the following legislative alert today about Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s funding requests in next year’s federal budget, which includes $5 million for the Crenshaw Line and $10 million for the Westside Subway Extension and Downtown Regional Connector — money to be used in planning both lines. U.S. Senator [continue reading]
A lot has been written and said in the past few weeks about Metro’s impending fare increase that goes into effect July 1. (Here’s a link to the new fare structure). As part of that conversation, the issue of transfers has again arisen — two stories in the local papers [continue reading]
We’ve had our “pick a color” for the Expo Line poll online for a week since April 30 and votes continue to trickle in. Aqua is still the clear winner but after winning support of about 60 percent of readers, its totals have been dropping and bronze has seen a [continue reading]
Metro will host the 2010 Pedestrian Symposium: Walking into the Future City on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at Metro headquarters to discuss pedestrian related issues around the car-centric Southern California region. The objective of the event is to explore strategies to increase travel options and create sustainable, healthy, livable communities. [continue reading]
On Saturday, the Board of Directors of Metro are holding a special meeting to update the public on the scheduled fare increase slated for July 1. Here’s a link to the new fare structure. To put the fare increase in perspective we’ve created a few charts comparing Metro’s new fares [continue reading]
The tweet from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority just went out a few minutes ago — the groundbreaking on the light rail extension from Pasadena to Azusa is scheduled for Saturday, June 26, at 10 a.m. at Newcastle Park in Arcadia. The Foothill Extension will be the first [continue reading]
