Metro is today releasing its budget [pdf] for the coming 2011-12 fiscal year. The highlights, in short: •The budget is $4.145 billion, which is 6.3 percent higher than last year, mostly due to more spending on Measure R projects. •Metro CEO Art Leahy is proposing to lower day passes from [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Blue Line After 8:15pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please see schedule here. Dates: today only [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here to [continue reading]
Happy Easter weekend Source readers. If you didn’t catch Art in the Streets at MOCA last weekend then hop on the Gold Line and check out some graffiti this weekend. On Saturday check out the Grilled Cheese Invitational, the Long Beach Comic Expo or, for fans of the band Explosions [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Lines 33, 68, 70, 71, 76, 78, 79, 83, 84, 96, 704, 728, 733, 745 & 770 Due to Good Friday Procession the listed lines will be [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Lines 2/302, 4, 016/316, 20, 028, 704, 720, 728, 761 Due to anticipated road closures during afternoon/evening on Thursday, April 21 and early morning Friday, April 22, [continue reading]
The popular radio program hosted by Warren Olney on 89.9 FM will look at the situation with the sale of Prop 1B funds tonight at 7 p.m. David Yale, the deputy executive officer for countywide planning at Metro, will be the guest. Listen here at 7 p.m. (with the “on [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here to [continue reading]
Major road and transit projects such as phase one of the Expo Line, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project and the Orange Line busway extension could lose critical funding if the state fails to sell Prop 1B infrastructure bonds this year, according to a Metro staff report. The problem, in [continue reading]
