ICYMI: VICE News, which airs on HBO, had an excellent segment on Measure M and the future of federal transpo funding on Wednesday. ICYMI2: Metro’s Innovation office received an unsolicited [continue reading]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has received an unsolicited proposal from Fluor Enterprises, Inc., to accelerate conversion of the Orange Line from bus rapid transit to light [continue reading]
A webstream of the meeting will be posted here, likely within 24 hours: Listen and watch online here. (pdf of Board agenda here). We have separate posts for the new policing contract approved [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday morning in what should be a doozy of a meeting with lots of interestingness on the menu. The agenda is above (pdf here) and includes links to staff reports. The meeting will be webcast as soon as it begins (scheduled for 9 a.m.). [continue reading]
(for pdf downloads, please click here) Earlier this month, Metro released the above presentation on the Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project. The presentation summarizes a technical study that was launched [continue reading]
Update 5:22 p.m.: Gold Line has resumed normal service with residual delays throughout the evening rush hour. Update 5:15 p.m.: Green Line was experiencing signal issues at approximately 4:30 p.m. Regular service resumed at 5:09 p.m. with residual delays through 6:00 p.m. At 5:00 p.m. a Gold Line operator reported [continue reading]
The 89th Annual Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood next Sunday evening and Metro buses are beginning detour schedules this weekend as preparations commence for the ceremony. Metro Bus Lines [continue reading]
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]
