The LIFE program is conducting outreach throughout Los Angeles County. LIFE offers savings such as discounted transit passes or 20 free rides each month. Riders can use LIFE discounts to ride Metro and buses run by other participating transit agencies. Join us at one of our upcoming events to enroll [continue reading]
Metro announced today a 12 percent increase in transit ridership compared to a year ago. There were 255 million boardings in 2022, surpassing the 227 million in 2021. “During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Metro’s riders disappeared, and stayed away for most of the epidemic. As [continue reading]
We’re offering free rides on our bus, rail and bike system on Saturday, February 4, to honor Transit Equity Day and the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who [continue reading]
We’ve finalized our proposal to make paying fares easier and to ensure that no one overpays for riding Metro buses and trains. Based on customer feedback, the staff recommendation is to keep base fares at their current prices and continue free one-way transfers between Metro buses and trains for two [continue reading]
With the price of gas, housing, food and everything else sky high, Metro continues to offer half-price transit passes to help you save money. Metro’s regular 1-Day, 7-Day and 30-Day [continue reading]
In the above gallery, CBOs work to help riders sign up for Metro’s Low Income Fare is Easy program. In November 2021, Metro released a Request for Proposals through a partnership with Civilian, a social impact and marketing company, to the Community-Based-Organization (CBO) community. The goal was to engage the [continue reading]
As of this morning, the average price of a gallon of gas locally is $5.65, according to AAA. Yikes! Until recently, that’s the highest the average gas prices have been since the summer of 2008 — when the California average was about $4.51 a gallon. We know that many of [continue reading]
As we ease into 2022, we wanted to bring everyone up to speed on Metro fares and opportunities for riders to save money! First things first: fare collection resumes on the Metro bus system on Monday, January 10. Your fares help keep our system running, the reason we’re restarting front-door [continue reading]
There has been a lot happening fare-wise at Metro. As we head into December this is a good chance to bring everyone up to speed. Fare collection resumes on the Metro bus system on January 10. Your fares help keep our system running, the reason we’re restarting front-door only boarding [continue reading]
New easy-to-use applications for Metro’s Low-Income Fare Is Easy (LIFE) program are now available online and at Metro Customer Centers. You can now also complete the application online — there are English and Spanish versions of the application. With fare collection restarting on Metro buses on January 10, we are [continue reading]
