Good morning, Metro riders and stakeholders! The gavel will soon drop on the Metro Board of Director’s meeting, scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. The agenda is above; click here for the html version. If not in attendance, you can listen to the meeting online by going to this link once the [continue reading]
Metro Service Council agendas are set for December, including one special meeting in a different location. Service Council meetings kick off today (Wednesday, December 4), in the San Fernando Valley at the Marvin BraudeCenter in Van Nuys. The San Gabriel Valley Service Council will be conducting their December meeting at an alternate location [continue reading]
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A quick heads up: The Financial District/Flower Street meeting of the Regional Connector Community Leadership Council for Tuesday, June 25, has been cancelled. The next meeting of the Council is to be determined. More info on time and location soon.
Metro Board Member and Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky submitted the following motion at today’s meeting; it will be discussed at the Board’s Systems, Safety and Operations Committee in January. The motion: The I-110 Metro ExpressLanes opened on November 10, 2012. With these ExpressLanes everyone — including those who carpool — must [continue reading]
Below is the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of the full Metro Board of Directors (pdf version here). The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Board room on the 3rd floor of Metro headquarters that is adjacent to Union Station in downtown L.A. You can listen to the meeting online [continue reading]
Here’s the update from the High Desert Corridor project team: Metro is hosting the last of four public meetings on the High Desert Corridor tonight at the Stater Bros. Mavericks Stadium in Adelanto. Due to technical difficulties, last night’s meeting in Victorville was not available online. Attached is the PowerPoint [continue reading]
The above video presents a short summary of some of the highlights of last Wednesday’s Bicycle Roundtable. Cyclists, advocates and other stakeholders gathered at Metro headquarters for the third Bicycle Roundtable to discuss various ways to make Metro more bike friendly. Here are a few notes from the meeting: Metro [continue reading]
View Larger Map There has been a last minute change in the location for tonight’s meeting of the Westside/Central Governance Council. The meeting will now be held at the La Cienega Community Center, 8400 Gregory Way, Beverly Hills. This is located directly across the street from the originally planned meeting [continue reading]
The December meeting of the Metro Board of Directors has begun and it’s a packed house here at One Gateway. Most of the crowd appears to be here for the vote on the Crenshaw line. The Board is set to vote today on the Metro staff recommendation on making Crenshaw [continue reading]
