The Metro Board of Directors met last Thursday for their April meeting. The webstream of the meeting is above and here’s the agenda with links to all staff reports and other meeting materials. Among the items the Board took action on this month: •The Board approved the route and Final [continue reading]
The May Service Council meetings continue to be held virtually due to the COVID-19 Safer at Home orders. This month, all Council meetings will get updates on the Station Evaluation Program, Metro’s Public Participation Plan, and their usual regional updates. They’ll also vote on whether to go dark (not meet) [continue reading]
Metro and the city of Los Angeles are partnering on the Florence Avenue Bus Priority Lanes Project along a 5.4-mile segment of Florence between West Boulevard and the [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets at 10 a.m. this Thursday, April 28, for its regular monthly meeting. An embedded version of the agenda is above. You can also peruse through the agenda, staff reports and attachments on this page on metro.net. A link to the meeting’s live webstream will [continue reading]
Public outreach and community engagement are fundamental and mandatory activities for Metro. Metro staff has released the draft Public Participation Plan (PPP) for 2022 and want input from the public before submitting to the Metro Board for their approval later this year. Anyone can submit comments about the draft Plan from [continue reading]
Metro and Caltrans are working on plans to convert the HOV lanes on the 10 freeway to ExpressLanes from the 605 freeway to the San Bernardino County Line. The alternatives to be studied include, but are not limited to: •No build, i.e. leave the HOV lanes as they are. •Converting [continue reading]
The I-710 North Mobility Hubs Working Group (consisting of SCAG, LA County Public Works, LADOT, Cal State LA, and other local partners) is developing the I-710 North Mobility Hubs Plan to improve mobility in the heavily congested region surrounding the northern end of the I-710 Freeway, and we need your [continue reading]
On Tuesday, April 26, Metro’s Service Councils will host the second of two FY23 (July 1, 2022 – June 30-2023) Budget Forums starting at 6:30 p.m. Metro’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will share the agency’s draft FY23 budget, discuss how the outreach process has influenced the Customer Experience [continue reading]
Metro today announced that it will comply with the new L.A. County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) Order requiring masks to be worn while riding public transit and when in indoor stations within L.A. County effective at 12:01 am, Friday, April 22, 2022. The LACDPH has determined that the mask [continue reading]
A press event featuring U.S. Senator Alex Padilla to highlight federal funding for Metro’s upcoming light rail project between Van Nuys and the San Fernando/Sylmar Metrolink Station was held Tuesday in Van Nuys. Video of the event is above. Formally known as the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, the [continue reading]
