ICYMI: paid parking is coming to North Hollywood and Universal City/Studio City stations beginning April 24. ICYMI 2: The latest on the joint development on 15 acres of land surrounding [continue reading]
(pdf for download and printing is here) Guidelines for the management and spending of Measure M dollars were released to the public for review Thursday by the Metro Board of Directors. The public comment period runs through May 26. The goal is to have the Board adopt the guidelines at [continue reading]
Measure M is Metro’s sales tax ballot measure that would raise the countywide sales tax by a half cent and continue the Measure R half-cent sales tax beyond its expiration date in mid-2039. The sales tax revenues would be used to fund a number of highway, transit, pedestrian and biking [continue reading]
•The city of Carson would receive $1,323,300 in local return funds in Measure M’s first year. Local return funds are a percentage of the sales tax revenues that are returned to cities on a per capita basis to pay for local projects such as street repair, traffic light synchronizations, transit [continue reading]
The Measure M sales tax ballot measure includes funding for the following projects, programs and local return for the city of Torrance: •The Green Line Extension to Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance. The Green Line would be extended for 4.7 miles from its current terminus in Redondo Beach to a new [continue reading]
Under the Measure M sales tax ballot measure, 17 percent of all sales taxes collected would be returned to the 88 cities and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County on a per capita basis. That would rise to 20 percent beginning in 2040 under Metro’s plan. Cities can use these [continue reading]
One of the items on the Nov. 8 ballot in Los Angeles County is a half-cent sales tax ballot measure by Metro called the Los Angeles Country Traffic Improvement Plan [continue reading]
https://soundcloud.com/metrolosangeles/metro-budget-fy-2016-17-part-3 In part three of our podcast trilogy looking at Metro’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, Steve and Drew look at four key numbers in the agency’s proposed $5.66-billion budget. In part one of the budget podcast, we provided a quick overview of the agency’s spending and revenues. In [continue reading]
Reminder: The telephone town halls on Metro’s potential ballot measure continue tonight at 6:15 p.m. (Westside and South Bay) and 7:30 p.m. (Southeast L.A. County) Click here for info on [continue reading]
This is great news, folks. We have a lot of excellent trailheads and hiking paths in Los Angeles but far too many of them are tough to reach via transit. [continue reading]
