A key item concerning the Crewshaw/LAX Line on today’s Metro Board of Directors meeting agenda has been postponed until next month: a motion by Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas to add a Leimert Park station and have tracks between 48th and 59th Street built underground. Here’s a post from yesterday with [continue reading]
Metro plans to remove the peak hour restrictions for bikes on Metro trains, and will present a recommendation to the Board of Director’s Operations Subcommittee on April 21. The committee item, available here, recommends the removal of the weekday 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. [continue reading]
With gas prices high and likely going higher by summer, Metro CEO Art Leahy is proposing to lower the cost of a Metro day pass from $6 to $5 effective July 1. The discount would be a test program lasting six months. The lower fare would not require public hearings [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors voted 7 to 6 on Thursday morning to approve changes to Metro bus service, including the cutting and shortening of some lines. The changes are scheduled to go into effect June 26. The changes amount to about 300,000 hours of service annually — about 100,000 [continue reading]
Among the items approved thus far by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday: •(Item 16) A motion by Board Members Antonio Villaraigosa, Gloria Molina and Richard Katz asking Metro CEO Art Leahy to prepare a master plan for Union Station, which Metro is in the process [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors Operations Committee on Thursday met to consider the proposed June 2011 service changes. A full list of the proposed changes is available here [PDF]. After a line-by-line review of the changes, the Operations Committee voted to forward the proposed bus service changes to the full [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met in downtown Los Angeles for their monthly meeting Thursday morning and took action on several items of interest below. As of 11:45 a.m., the meeting is still in progress and the Board still has items to discuss in closed session. Please note that Los [continue reading]
Despite a California shortfall of $25 billion and a national debt of around $13.7 trillion, there’s good news for L.A. County, according to Metro Board Chair and L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe. And a chunk of that good news relates to transit. Well, transit and jobs. In his State of [continue reading]
The final environmental impact report for rush hour bus lanes on parts of Wilshire Boulevard was initially approved by the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday, with a roughly one-mile stretch in the Condo Canyon area of Westwood removed from the project. Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas abstained from the vote. [continue reading]
Among the actions taken so far today by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting: •(Item 6) The Board approved a $28-million increase to the budget for the first phase of the Expo Line from downtown L.A. to Culver City, bringing it to $928 million. Staff report •(Item 3) [continue reading]
