Metro is holding a public hearing at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, in the Board Room on the 3rd floor at Metro headquarters over three changes involving TAP cards that are designed to improve service and make bus transfers between Metro and other agencies easier and quicker. The public [continue reading]
Happy New Year! To start the year off right, come join us and learn all about Metro’s regional projects and programs. We are always open to suggestions for discussion at our Council meetings; let us know what you want to hear, and we’ll do our best to make it happen. [continue reading]
On Friday, Jan. 26 Metro will begin work on connecting the Crenshaw/LAX Line and the Green Line tracks. The work will require a 71-day closure of five Green Line stations: [continue reading]
Heads up, folks: Metro released a Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility project on October 18, 2017, hosted scoping meetings and recorded public comments until November 17, 2017. Since then, Metro has released a revised NOP to notify the public that the proposed project footprint has been expanded to include [continue reading]
On Tuesday, January 9, Metro is hosting a workshop for agency stakeholders — including cities, transit agencies, and Transportation Management Associations in Los Angeles County — to discuss the draft Supportive Transit Parking Program (“STPP Master Plan”) Master Plan, introduced to the Board in November 2017. The STPP Master Plan [continue reading]
This has been a busy year for the Regional Connector project. All of the project’s progress —from relocating major utilities to mining twin tunnels — was helped considerably by community [continue reading]
Check it out: an end of the year list that actually arrives at the very end of the year! Instead of listing every single thing that happened at Metro this [continue reading]
With funding from Metro, the city of Los Angeles Planning Department is working on a new Transit Neighborhood Plan for five stations along the Orange Line, as well as other Metro lines. In plain English, the plan’s purpose is to encourage more development near stations — and to regulate development. [continue reading]
This is an update on a proposal we posted about earlier this year: to replace direct Orange Line service to Warner Center with a circulator running between Canoga Station and Warner Center. The shuttle would make multiple stops whereas the Orange Line now has one stop in Warner Center. A Reseda [continue reading]
Subway riders have been commenting recently about unexpectedly having cell service underground beyond DTLA, so we thought it was time for a quick update. Installation of cell service equipment for [continue reading]
