The Metro Board of Directors held their regular monthly meeting last Thursday. The meeting was held virtually, as has been the case since the ongoing pandemic began last year. As many of you know, the meeting suffered issues with the audio frequently cutting out. Here is the Metro statement issued [continue reading]
pdf download here The Metro Board of Directors meets at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 25, for its regular monthly meeting. As has been the case since last spring, the meeting will be held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic. In addition to the agenda above, this page also has links [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! On Expo and Gold Line projects, light rail cars could be in short supply (KPCC) Media coverage of the story posted on ZevWeb about the [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Looming train shortage at Metro (ZevWeb) Metro is in a race against time. Literally. The big question tackled by this story on Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Have a transportation-related article [continue reading]
Source reader Darrell Clarke — also the mover and shaker of Friends4Expo — posted a link to this great photo in the comments section of our earlier post about getting rail cars to Metro. Darrell took this photo on the Golden State Freeway going up the Grapevine. Regular Metro [continue reading]
As many readers already know, a proposed deal for Metro to spend $300 million to purchase 100 new rail cars from the manufacturer AnsaldoBreda collapsed over the weekend when the company asked again for changes to a contract with the agency. The Los Angeles Times’ editorial page weighed in on [continue reading]
Here’s today’s version of the Metro Library’s transportation headlines. The Metro Library is kind of like the E Street Band, by the way: they just keeping cranking it out, day after day after day. In an opinion piece in the Pasadena Star-News, State Sen. Bob Huff is pleased that the [continue reading]
