As Metro begins to put together the 2018 fiscal year budget, Metro’s Office of Management and Budget will make presentations at all five March Service Council meetings to gather input. If you’d like to provide input on Metro’s FY18 budget but can’t attend one of the meetings, see this page [continue reading]
All five Service Councils will meet in February and hear an update on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Studies from Metro Countywide Planning and Regional Service Performance Report. Additionally, all the Councils will consider the adoption of a decorum policy, with the exception of the South Bay Council, which adopted [continue reading]
A new $10.5-million U.S. Department of Transportation grant will fund the purchase of 30 next-generation, near zero-emission compressed natural gas buses to run in the South Bay and Gateway Cities region, Metro announced today. The takeaways: •Combined with Metro’s $10.5-million match, a total of $21 million will be invested to replace [continue reading]
As part of the Nov. 8 ballot, Los Angeles County voters will be considering Measure M, a half-cent sales tax increase and extension of the Measure R half-cent tax beyond 2039 to pay for transit, highway, walking, biking and other transportation projects. Both taxes would continue in perpetuity or until [continue reading]
https://soundcloud.com/metrolosangeles/telephone-town-hall-3-south-bay-and-westside Above and below please find the Telephone Town Hall (TTH) meetings that Metro held last Thursday to discuss the agency’s potential ballot measure. Here’s the transcript for the South Bay and Westside TTH. And here’s the transcript for the Gateway Cities TTH. The meetings continue tonight: •6:15 p.m.: Stephanie Wiggins, Metro’s Deputy [continue reading]
A long list of transit projects, road improvements and commuting options could be built over the next five decades under a $120-plus billion spending plan Metro released Friday for a [continue reading]
To make meetings more accessible to the public, the Metro Gateway Cities Service Council elected to move the start of their meeting time from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The new 6 p.m. meeting time goes into effect Thursday, August 13. Meetings will take place at the same location the [continue reading]
At their January meeting, the Gateway Cities Service Council discussed the idea of moving their monthly meetings to a later time to make it more convenient for the public to attend and participate. Since the room they currently hold their meetings at is currently not available in the evening, a [continue reading]
If you want to have your say in the renaming of the Blue Line Transit Mall Station to the Downtown Long Beach Station, attend the service council meeting this Thursday or write in to servicecouncils@metro.net. Here’s the press release from Metro with more information: The Metro Gateway Cities Service Council [continue reading]
With the beginning of a new fiscal year, some Metro Service Councils will be seating new members and rotating chairs and vice chairs. New Service Council members are listed below in the Service Council’s agenda items. A milestone will also be celebrated this month as the Gateway Cities Service Council reaches [continue reading]
