Long Beach Transit (LBT), Metro and Long Beach City College (LBCC) announced a new partnership last week that will offer free rides for all LBCC students across several transportation systems. Beginning with the Spring 2022 semester, all LBCC students – whether full-time, part-time, in-person, online, credit/non-credit or dual-enrollment – will [continue reading]
We launched our Fareless System Initiative in Aug. 2020. The program’s goals are simple: to use fareless transit as a tool to help L.A. County residents deal with the ever-rising cost of living here and help recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. That’s important because about 70 percent of our riders are considered low-income. [continue reading]
pdf for download here The Metro Board of Directors meets virtually at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 22. You can watch live here — the webstream will also be saved and available for those who wish to watch/listen at a later date. The agenda for the meeting is above with [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors today approved going forward with development a fareless pilot program to benefit students and low-income riders and to determine whether fareless transit could be expanded to more riders. In approving a motion with a friendly amendment by a 12 to 0 vote (the approved motion [continue reading]
Metro staff today released a much-anticipated proposal to test eliminating fares on Metro buses and trains for kindergarten through 12th grade students, community college students and low-income residents of Los Angeles County. Under the proposal, Metro buses and trains would be fareless for students beginning in August. Fareless transit would [continue reading]
Below is the official meeting recap, which will also soon be posted to metro.net: And here’s the agenda to the meeting (pdf and links to reports are here): And below is the webstream of the meeting, which this month was a brisk two hours and 47 minutes in length. That’s [continue reading]
pdf of agenda here The Metro Board of Directors meets at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 22, for its regular monthly meeting. As has been the case since Spring of last year, the meeting will be held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic. In addition to the agenda above, this page [continue reading]
Metro hosted a live interactive telephone town hall meeting in March to discuss Metro’s Fareless System Initiative. If you were unable to listen or dial in during the event, the recordings of the meeting are available below for you listen to at your convenience. Metro is currently in the process [continue reading]
A fareless transit pilot program for K-12 students in Los Angeles County could begin as soon as this August, Metro staff told the Metro Board of Director’s Executive Management Committee on Thursday. The proposal to begin the fareless pilot for students one year earlier than originally proposed is predicated on [continue reading]
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]
