This month, all Service Councils will hear an update on the Traffic Reduction Study and a NextGen Bus Speed Engineering Working Group Update, which is working on bus supportive infrastructure projects to speed up the bus system in support of the NextGen Bus Plan. Last but not least, all Councils [continue reading]
With Black History month now underway, we wanted to focus on Paul Revere Williams (Feb. 18, 1894 – Jan. 23, 1980), a leading practitioner of mid-century modern design in Southern California and the first Black architect to become a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1923. Metro’s [continue reading]
Agenda pdf is here. Recap pdf is here. The Metro Board of Directors met virtually last Thursday, Jan. 28. You can watch/listen to the webstream (embedded below) of the four hour, 35-minute meeting — there is a tool at the previous link that allows you to skip ahead to the [continue reading]
Riders on Metro and 25 other transit systems in Los Angeles County can now add TAP cards to their Android smartphones, in addition to their iPhones, beginning today. The TAP [continue reading]
Metro’s Joint Development team is in the process of updating the agency’s affordable housing policy. The program allows Metro to collaborate with qualified developers to build transit-oriented developments on Metro-owned properties — usually parcels left over from construction of transit projects. As part of the policy update, the J.D. team has released [continue reading]
What if we all worked together to give people more options to driving? Metro is developing a $1.3-million Travel Rewards Research Pilot Project to identify and test the most effective incentives to persuade travelers to skip driving alone and instead choose transit, carpooling, walking, bicycling or telecommuting with an Accelerating [continue reading]
In October, Metro published a blog post explaining that Metro had become aware that some N95 masks in the agency’s possession were of questionable quality. Metro subsequently pulled those masks from its inventory and stopped issuing them to employees. As we said at the time, Metro would investigate the origin [continue reading]
With a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases ongoing in Los Angeles County, Metro continues to run bus and rail service for essential trips. As we reported earlier this week, we are experiencing some staff shortages and missed trips due to employees missing work because they’re ill, caring for family members [continue reading]
The number of new COVID-19 cases has exploded in Southern California over the past two months — and Metro, unfortunately, is feeling the impact on our bus and rail service due to staffing shortages. As a result, some bus and rail trips will likely be canceled each day over the [continue reading]
In one sense, 2020 was the toughest of years for mass transit across the United States. Lives were lost. At LA Metro and across the nation, ridership plummeted due to safer-at-home orders. Service was reduced and — depending on location — restored to varying degrees. Agencies’ finances were upended. I [continue reading]
