Metro is today releasing its budget [pdf] for the coming 2011-12 fiscal year. The highlights, in short: •The budget is $4.145 billion, which is 6.3 percent higher than last year, mostly due to more spending on Measure R projects. •Metro CEO Art Leahy is proposing to lower day passes from [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. Rendering of Union Station stop for Silver Line (Curbed LA) The Curbed folks have a nice rendering of the station proposed for [continue reading]
All Metro buses and Metro Rail trains, including the Red Line, Purple Line, Blue Line, Green Line and Gold Line, will operate on a regular schedule on Presidents’ Day, Monday, Feb. 15. As always, you can check the routes and schedules on the trip planner at www.metro.net or call 1-800-COMMUTE.
New to The Source is a feature called Metro Minutes, an audio recording that you can click on and hear Metro’s Chief Executive Officer Art Leahy talk about transportation related news and information. In this first edition of Metro Minutes, Art Leahy reflects on the past year at the agency and [continue reading]
One of our New Year’s Resolutions for the Source is to publish reader email on a more frequent basis — ideally we would like to get enough interesting comments to publish them once each week. Send comments to thesource@metro.net. Here is this week’s edition: Riders and transit advocates have been [continue reading]
The Source has yet to ride the new Silver Line (don’t worry, we will soon) but Metro Community Relations was there on opening day and took this video. Check out the sleek buses (NABI 45C-LFW, for you transit geeks), thoughts from passengers, and footage of the bus blasting past traffic [continue reading]
A lot of people have been asking about the Metro Silver Line bus service that will be starting on December 13th. Well, Metro has released a bunch of new information including timetables, maps and a destination guide. We’re going to take a closer look at the information and figure out [continue reading]
One of our big hopes for The Source is to include reader email and feedback. It’s one thing for us to tell you what Metro is thinking — and it’s equally important in my view to hear what customers and taxpayers think of Metro. With that in mind, here’s our [continue reading]
We had a post earlier this week about upcoming bus service changes and the addition of new Silver Line bus service between El Monte Station and the Artesia Transit Center via the El Monte Busway and Harbor Freeway Transitway. A press release on the Silver Line is after the jump [continue reading]
Metro has announced significant service changes involving a dozen different routes — including some new routes and some that are being truncated or eliminated. The changes go into effect Sunday, Dec. 13. The full list is after the jump. There are also minor adjustments being made to several dozen other [continue reading]
