pdf download here Metro’s Better Bus Program returns to the Metro Board of Directors this month seeking $2.1 billion in funding over the next five years. The goal of Better Bus is to make meaningful investments in the bus system, as follows: •Faster bus trips via new bus lanes, traffic [continue reading]
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]
The first Measure M rail project scheduled to be built is the East San Fernando Valley Transit Project — a 9.2-mile light rail between the G Line (Orange) and the [continue reading]
•Thoughts on Service #1: we’re glad that regular train service between Long Beach and DTLA has been resumed on the A Line — and that six-minute peak hour service has [continue reading]
Wildfires: The Tick Fire in Canyon Country and the surrounding area continues to burn. Due to the fire, parts of the 14 freeway are closed as of Friday morning. There may also be some scattered delays on Friday to bus routes in the San Fernando Valley as a result — [continue reading]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by LA Metro (@metrolosangeles) •Streetsblog LA reports that L.A. City Council Member and Metro Board Member Mike Bonin has introduced a motion at City Hall instructing the city’s transportation department (LADOT) to maximize traffic signal priority for the Expo Line in [continue reading]
ICYMI: Metro says there were 592,000 Metro Rail boardings on Saturday, which included the well-attended Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles. That compares to the average of 231,897 boardings on Saturdays during [continue reading]
From the Department of Tweets About Traffic Signal Priority: For those still wondering about Expo Line signal priority, I'm told @metrolosangeles's "Office of Extraordinary Innovation" is studying it. — Laura [continue reading]
Metro Bike Share news: More than 1,600 people have bought passes for LA County's week-old bike share program https://t.co/7rcqkWPjX6 pic.twitter.com/OmtV2ywTX7 — 89.3 KPCC (@KPCC) July 20, 2016 Bike share is [continue reading]
Things to read whilst transiting: Nice photo essay of the beach and pool scene in Gotham over the years on the New Yorker’s Photo Booth blog. Things to read 2: I just finished “Barbarian Days: a Surfing Life” by William Finnegan. The book won a Pulitzer this past spring and [continue reading]
