UPDATE, April 15: Staff provided an update to the Metro Board’s Operations Committee today. Here’s the new staff report and presentation. Better Bus is currently scheduled to return to the [continue reading]
You can view the agenda online or download it here. The agenda includes links to all staff reports. Among the actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors today: •The Board approved three contracts for new Metro buses, with two of those for a total of 95 electric buses. Please see this [continue reading]
From the Dept. of Welcome to My Chocolate Factory: RIP, Gene Wilder. I think “Willy Wonka” was one of the first movies I ever saw in a movie theater. And “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Silver Streak” and “Stir Crazy” were all fun movies back in my more youthful days of [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 blog. A commute too far (Wall Street Journal) The WSJ uses a Metro employee who has a 174-mile roundtrip-commute (some by car, some [continue reading]
At a meeting of Metro officials last week, an interesting discussion broke out about a customer survey the agency did earlier this year. Was it really true that just 68% of passengers on Metro buses and trains had a working cell phone with them? And just 37% overall had smart [continue reading]
I recently took a tour of Metro’s Bus Operations Control Center, simply known as the BOC, and discovered a small collection of dedicated men and women who work 24/7 to keep Metro’s massive bus system running as smoothly as possible. Seriously, these guys are like the Spartans from the film [continue reading]
