By Joshua Schank Metro Chief Innovation Officer Here’s the thing about a crisis: none of them are the same. We desperately seek historical parallels as we are doing now with past pandemics, previous economic downturns, and major social movements. But each crisis faces a unique set of circumstances, making it [continue reading]
In March, Los Angeles traffic as we know it vanished overnight after safer-at-home orders were issued. With the coronavirus beginning to claim lives, many of us would have welcomed the traffic back, and other signs of normalcy, in a heartbeat. Then, beginning in late May, city and county officials imposed [continue reading]
The following is a news release issued Wednesday by the California Transit Association, which represents transit agencies across the state, including Metro: California Transit Association issues formal request for relief funding to state and federal leadership, launches “California Without Transit” statewide ad campaign SACRAMENTO – California’s local public transit agencies, suffering [continue reading]
Here is the news release from the office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti: LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti today began his term as Chair of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board of Directors, his third term in this post. He succeeds outgoing Chair and Inglewood Mayor [continue reading]
One of the freeway projects Metro is pursuing is building ExpressLanes on the 105 freeway between the 405 and Studebaker Road in Norwalk. A draft environmental impact report/assessment (EIR/EA) has been released — the document is here. A virtual public hearing will be held Wednesday, July 15, from 6 p.m. [continue reading]
The meeting flyer is below. The Recovery Task Force’s mission is to prepare recommendations to help Metro cope with and recover from the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, which has dealt blows to Metro funding and ridership. The Task Force’s 12 early action recommendations are in this report; here’s the Source post [continue reading]
Metro Bike Share is offering FREE 30-Day Passes to essential workers throughout Los Angeles County through the month of July. Eligible workers can apply for a 30-Day Metro Bike Share [continue reading]
Metro will operate on Sunday/holiday schedule on Independence Day, Saturday, July 4. This means buses that do not run on Sunday will not run on July 4. We also continue [continue reading]
With Los Angeles County having been reopening for the past few weeks, our ridership has been increasing. We have been providing essential bus and rail trips throughout the pandemic, and [continue reading]
pdf for download here Official recap is posted below. The Metro Board of Directors held its June meeting last Thursday. Audio of the meeting can be heard by clicking here. Among the items the Board took action on: •The Board accepted a Metro staff report to be received-and-filed on Metro’s [continue reading]
