Metro is pleased to release the 2025 Short Range Transportation Plan (SRTP), a roadmap for the next 15 years to expand, improve, and maintain one of the nation’s largest and most complex transportation networks. The plan builds on and updates the goals set out in Metro’s 2020 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP).
Both short- and long-range plans are legally required documents. Their purpose is simple: to demonstrate to taxpayers and our funding partners at the state and federal levels that we do have a plan!
Investments through 2039
The 2025 SRTP lists and explains $220 billion worth of countywide transportation investments through 2039. This includes nearly $50 billion for rail and transitway projects, $11 billion for bus projects, $50 billion for highways and streets projects, and over $75 billion for transit operations and paratransit.
Managing Financial Risk and Challenges
Over the next 15 years, Metro is set to deliver a wave of major transportation projects designed to improve how people move throughout Los Angeles County for generations to come.
This progress isn’t without its challenges and Metro is proactively planning, staying flexible and finding innovative ways to deliver on its promises to voters by identifying and mitigating risks and challenges.
For full details of the 2025 SRTP, please read the full plan and/or visit the StoryMap.
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Here’s a suggestion. Let the late night passengers at Chatsworth off at the station platform, not over under the charging towers from which we have to tromp across the landscaping to get to the south parking lot.
The SRTP seems like a thoughtful, realistic plan. But as it notes, revenue remains a real challenge. Metro needs to install fare gates and Tap to Exit at ALL stations (not just end of line stations) to ensure riders are paying their way. The statistics on the increase in fare recovery at the couple of stations where there was/is Tap to Exit provide a strong endorsement for wider implementation. Metro should also consider congestion pricing in key areas and along key State freeways, like the Arroyo Parkway, 91, 134, and 60. It’s time that we take a page from Orlando FL (and Dallas and Houston) and recognize that not all expressways need to be “free”ways.