With some aspects of our local economy expected to reopen in the weeks ahead from Coronavirus safer-at-home orders, Metro will be implementing a four-phase plan for restoring bus and rail service. Before we go further, it’s important to remember that Los Angeles County’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic is a [continue reading]
View this post on Instagram Today’s poem by Joseph Rios— who reads to us from his home in Jefferson Park — is an excerpt from “Ode to the Essential,” a new work he has dedicated to Metro’s workers and riders during the quarantine of 2020. As National Poetry Month [continue reading]
The April Regional Service Councils meetings were postponed out of consideration for the period of adjustment to COVID-19 pandemic, but will resume in May. To comply with local and state directives limiting the number of people that can gather, the meetings will be held virtually. If you’ve ever wondered what [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors held its April meeting on Thursday virtual-style in keeping with the current safer-at-home orders and social distancing. The audio feed will be posted here within the next few work days. In his monthly report, Metro CEO Phil Washington talked about the ongoing pandemic. [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday at 10 a.m. In order to comply with local and state directives limiting the number of people that can gather, the Board will forgo holding meetings at Metro headquarters and is instead holding a meeting online. [continue reading]
The Purple Line Extension Transit Project is welcoming the last two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to its TBM family! The new additions will join the Section 1 TBMs Elsie and [continue reading]
Metro today reports that one of its tunneling machines has officially reached the Wilshire/Fairfax subway station near the La Brea Tar Pits in the Miracle Mile. It is the second [continue reading]
Metro is pleased by the Beverly Hills City Council’s decision on Tuesday to support its closure request of Wilshire Boulevard to help speed up construction of the Wilshire/Rodeo Station for the Purple Line Extension of the subway. The closure will allow Metro’s contractors to complete decking for the Wilshire/Rodeo station [continue reading]
While many public meetings are being transitioned to online or telephone formats, Metro has decided to cancel the April Service Council meetings out of consideration for this period of adjustment to the current public health crisis, and to allow Metro to focus on the public’s safety and well being while [continue reading]
In an abundance of caution related to mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and by order of the Metro Board Chair and Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, the March committee and full meetings of the Metro Board have been canceled. Items intended to be heard in March will be continued to [continue reading]
