National Night Out, an evening of fun family-focused activities, will be held at Union Station on Tuesday, Aug. 6. The national community-building campaign is a “night to unite” and promotes [continue reading]
Metro crime data from Jan. 2018. Click on page above to see larger. It goes without saying that safety and security is a very big deal for Metro customers — riders have told the agency that over and over. And the message was received. In July, the Long Beach and [continue reading]
Earlier this year, Metro’s Board of Directors approved a new contract to increase the presence of police on Metro. As a result, in July the Los Angeles and Long Beach police departments joined the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in patrolling the Metro system. In this four-part series on safety and security [continue reading]
Metro will be hosting a law enforcement meet and greet at Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station this Friday, Dec. 8 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Stop by and get to know the officers who patrol our system; there will be tables for Long Beach Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los [continue reading]
Metro will be hosting a law enforcement meet and greet on Friday, Oct. 27 at the Union Station East Portal from 9 a.m. to noon. Stop by and get to [continue reading]
(pdf file of Board report is here) After a three month delay, a new policing contract that splits the work of patrolling the Metro system between three police agencies was approved by a 12 to 0 vote Thursday by the Metro Board of Directors. Going forward, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department [continue reading]
Art of Transit: check out the fancy new ‘bike hotel’ at a train station in Lillestrøm, Norway. L.A. subway commuters encounter bag searches, heavily armed deputies as city responds to terrorism [continue reading]
