Metro and the Metro Board of Directors every month honor employees who are stellar at helping keep our bus and train system running. Please meet this month’s three winners — all of whom accepted their award at their workplace from Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins. In the top video, we honor [continue reading]
Metro’s Operations team and the Metro Board every month honor a pair of employees who are stellar at helping keep our bus and train system running. Please meet this month’s winners — both of whom accepted their award from Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins. In the top video, we honor Metro [continue reading]
Metro today announced that it had been awarded $1.24 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (P.L. 117-2) funds to help pay for expenses incurred by the agency during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “LA Metro is deeply appreciative to U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, our Los Angeles County Congressional [continue reading]
Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday released his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The highlight, as you may have heard in the news: the state has a projected $31-billion budget surplus. The budget focuses on five key areas of investment: the pandemic, the climate crisis, homelessness, mitigating increases in [continue reading]
Metro, the city of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) have partnered to help speed bus service for transit customers during weekdays with the launch of [continue reading]
pdf download here The Metro Board of Directors meets at 10 a.m. on Thursday, October 28, for their regular monthly meeting. The agenda is embedded above. Here is an online version with links to each of the staff reports. Here is the info for those who would like to submit [continue reading]
Metro is celebrating California Clean Air Day by encouraging everyone to take transit today instead of driving with free rides on Metro Bus, Bike and Rail. In the above video, Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Holly Mitchell and Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins went to the E Line’s (Expo) [continue reading]
Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins on Thursday joined Metro Board Director Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker in welcoming about 65 women to the agency’s virtual Apprenticeship Readiness program to discuss lucrative trade jobs in construction and transportation industries as part of the agency’s Women Build Metro Los Angeles (WBMLA) program. To view a recording [continue reading]
Metro has issued Notices to Proceed to two private sector teams to officially begin Pre-Development work on Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project concepts for a new, high-capacity transit line that will connect the San Fernando Valley with the Westside and eventually LAX. Pre-Development Agreement (PDA) contracts have now been signed and [continue reading]
The Metrolink Board of Directors on Friday voted to approve Darren Kettle as the next CEO of Metrolink, the commuter rail agency that serves Southern California. LA Metro is one [continue reading]
