Below are some of the most interesting actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors at their monthly meeting held Thursday. The full agenda is above. As we also noted earlier on Twitter, Metro CEO Phil Washington congratulated the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority on reaching “substantial completion” of the [continue reading]
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The video covers the last five minutes of Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Eric Garcetti’s remarks this morning to the MoveLA conference at Union Station. MoveLA is pushing for [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Hello, Source readers. I was away for a few days doing the active transportation thing: backpacking into the Hoover Wilderness of the Eastern Sierra. It’s [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Move LA’s Measure R 2 proposal, including their rail fantasy map (Streetsblog L.A.) A look at the activist group’s “strawman proposal” for a half-cent sales tax [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Transit riders assail proposed Metro fare hike at public meeting (L.A. Times) Coverage of the four-hour hearing on Saturday over the proposed fare increase. As [continue reading]
I missed this one earlier and I’m going to be tied up tomorrow morning at the Move LA conference, so I thought it best to add now: More buses and highways across the region will ease traffic gridlock, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti says (Daily News) Speaking at a transportation forum [continue reading]
The transit advocacy group Move LA has seen increasingly larger crowds for its previous four annual conferences. This year’s conference is Friday, Feb. 1, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the old ticketing area at the front of Los Angeles Union Station (i.e. the Alameda Street side of [continue reading]
With the first phase of the Expo Line scheduled to open later this month, I recently interviewed Darrell Clarke, the co-chair of Friends 4 Expo Transit, a group that has worked tirelessly to ensure that Los Angeles has light rail, rather than a busway — or no transit at all [continue reading]
The activist group Move LA held its “L.A. on the Verge’ event at Union Station on Friday, with a big focus on transportation funding. The group is headed by former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane, who clearly let the hundreds in attendance know his position: the Measure R sales tax [continue reading]
