Reminder: for those of you planning on going to the march Saturday, avoid long lines at the TAP vending machines by getting your TAP card ahead of time. More here. Dept. of Infrastructure Facts: I didn’t know Oroville Dam was taller than Hoover Dam. Now I do. Here’s what the [continue reading]
The historic Lankershim Depot at North Hollywood Station, originally built in 1896 and known as the Toluca Southern Pacific Train Depot, is now home to Groundwork Coffee. The coffee shop has [continue reading]
Metro is adding service for the Immigrants Make America Great march on Saturday and the Not My President’s Day Rally on Monday. Both events are in downtown Los Angeles and both could [continue reading]
Dept. of Sneak Peeks: Dept. of Groundhog’s Day: The Sierra snowpack is at its highest level for this time of the year since the mid-1990s, some of California’s reservoirs are [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: Does L.A. need the Purple Line Extension to go to Santa Monica? (Urbanize LA) During his campaign for Los Angeles Mayor in [continue reading]
All five Service Councils will meet in February and hear an update on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Studies from Metro Countywide Planning and Regional Service Performance Report. Additionally, all the Councils will consider the adoption of a decorum policy, with the exception of the South Bay Council, which adopted [continue reading]
From the Dept. of Twitter: The feed for BART — the rail system serving parts of the Bay Area — had lots to say this weekend. You can take BART to all kinds of weekend events – also, direct service to SFO is running great right now. — SFBART (@SFBART) [continue reading]
Dept. of Practice Makes Perfect: Metro last week held an exercise for some of its bus operators: a wheelchair securement competition to test an essential skill. Below are a few [continue reading]
You can also download or print a pdf of the agenda from this link. I’ll update this post as the meeting continues. •The Board Approved the final environmental study for the [continue reading]
You can also download or print a pdf of the agenda from this link. The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. and will be streamed live once it begins. Metro CEO Phil Washington will also give his annual State of the Agency talk during his CEO remarks, which usually take [continue reading]
