The Board of Directors meeting began a few minutes ago and the first item to be considered is Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas’ motion to add a Leimert Park Village station to the Crenshaw/LAX Line as well as an underground segment between 48th and 59th streets. We’ll have coverage of the meeting [continue reading]
Two motions regarding fare media were unanimously approved today by the Executive Management & Audit Committee. This first motion converts Metro calendar-based passes into “rolling” passes. Current calendar-based passes are good for the specific week or month they are purchased (i.e. a monthly pass bought in May is only good [continue reading]
The Wilshire bus lanes project has been in the planning stages for quite some time and still needs the final approval of Metro’s Board of Directors, the L.A. City Council and the Board of Supervisors before construction can begin. The Metro Board is scheduled to consider the bus lanes [continue reading]
The Board of Directors met this morning in downtown Los Angeles. The agenda was on the short side due to the start of the new year. Here are three notable actions taken by the Board: •(Item 21) The Board adopted a policy to better manage and track costs of Measure [continue reading]
After literally decades of talk, false starts, community resistance and funding dead-ends, a route for an extension of the subway to the job-rich Westside was selected by the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday in a vote called historic by several Directors. The Board of Directors voted 10 to 0 [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board of Director member Antonio Villaraigosa just finished up a phone call with members of the local press about the 30/10 Initiative and tomorrow’s Board vote on selecting routes for the Westside Subway Extension and the Regional Connector projects. The 30/10 plan seeks to build [continue reading]
The first of two public hearings on the Regional Connector’s draft environmental impact statement/report (DEIS/R) is tomorrow night. Here’s the schedule: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 – 8pm Japanese American National Museum 369 E. 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 Monday, October 4, 2010 11:30am – 1pm Los Angeles Police [continue reading]
UPDATE, FRIDAY, 5 P.M. — I added information after the jump about two other issues not included in the original version of this post. In addition to the bus service changes and cuts I posted about earlier, here are some other items of interest the Board of Directors of Metro [continue reading]
The Board of Directors voted this morning on service changes and cuts that would reduce Metro’s bus service by about 3.7 percent. The cuts include the elimination of five Rapid bus lines — the 711, 714, 715, 753 and 920 — although local service will be enhanced. Here’s the staff [continue reading]
As many of you already know, the Board of Directors of Metro are scheduled to vote at their monthly meeting on Thursday on changes and cuts in the agency’s bus service. The cuts amount to about four percent of Metro’s overall bus service. Among the cuts: five rapid lines (the [continue reading]
