September Metro Board agenda Good morning, Source readers! Metro Board Chairwoman Diane DuBois has just dropped the gavel on the September meeting of the agency’s Board of Directors, the 13-member group that serves as the ultimate deciders for Metro. The agenda is above. It looks to be a fairly mellow [continue reading]
Measure R 2nd/3rd decade update The Metro Board of Directors is gearing up for its September meetings and agendas are now posted for Board Committees. Of those, I thought the above Metro staff report above was the most interesting. It provides an update on the status of Measure R transit [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Have a transportation-related article [continue reading]
Long Beach Transit Mall station renaming report Nothing earth-shaking here folks, but I know that station renaming is always of moderate to high interest to Source readers. Above is the staff report on the proposal to rename the Blue Line’s Transit Mall station “Downtown Long Beach,” a move that Metro [continue reading]
June Board meeting agenda The Metro Board of Directors meeting on Thursday should be both interesting and longer than a cold winter’s night with a broken furnace and no firewood, matches or a blanket. The Board has a lot on its collective plate, including several items that taken together will [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. The Natural Gas Alliance has a new video urging transit agencies to convert their [continue reading]
Stations at Leimert Park Village and at Hindry and Florence avenues near Westchester for the Crenshaw/LAX Line light rail project were funded today by the Metro Board of Directors, ending a two-year long controversy over whether the stops would be built. The vote was 10 to 1. The motion [continue reading]
April Board of Directors agenda Here is the agenda for the regular monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors that is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday at Metro HQ in downtown Los Angeles. As usual, I’ll be at the meeting and will post about some of the [continue reading]
A few notes from today’s mostly uneventful meeting of the Metro Board: •Board Member Vice Chair Diane DuBois offered a motion — approved by the Board — that Metro staff produce a report for the April meetings that looks at fare restructuring. She asked that the report include a variety [continue reading]
•The Board approved a $33.2-million, five-year contract with the California Vanpool Authority, Enterprise Rent-a-Car Company of Los Angeles and VPSI, Inc., to provide vanpool services to Metro. Metro staff report •The Board voted to accept $26.1 million from the state of California’s Prop 1B to help fund the I-405 Sepulveda [continue reading]
