DASH

The Los Angeles City Transportation Department (LADOT) has a plan to expand transit services, including expanding DASH and CityRide, and trying out a microtransit pilot. The proposed expansions are not yet fully funded, though they could get partially underway using some transit expansion funds in the current fiscal year budget.

L.A. City Council committed to electrifying 320+ LADOT Commuter Express and DASH buses by 2030

Parking fees and increased shuttle service are solving congestion issues in Griffith Park

Starting next week, Griffith Park will use new parking revenue to provide DASH Observatory Shuttle service seven days per week.

LADOT announce the first of four 35-foot electric buses that will serve downtown L.A.

Yesterday's Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee touched on a number of items related to Los Angeles livability. Below is a brief recap of highlights. All these committee actions still need to be approved by the full city council before going into effect.

Are reduced fares on the way for users of LADOT’s TAP on DASH bus service?

Tonight is the last of the five hearings on the major service changes that have been proposed for LADOT's transit services, DASH, Commuter Express, City Ride and Charter Bus Service.  The first four hearings have seen crowds of various sizes, with packed house's at the hearings in the San Fernando Valley's hearing and the one at Caltrans headquarters in the Downtown.  However, the message from the hearings was the same: raise fares if you must, but don't cut service.

As the Los Angeles Department of Transportation prepares for five public hearings next month and in early March, activists are responding to their proposed series of cuts and fare hikes that will close the city's budget hole...at least when it comes to it's transit services.  Unlike the reaction we saw two years ago when Metro outlined a series of major cuts to its bus service, transit advocacy groups are not nearly as unified in opposing these cuts as they were two years ago.  For more information on LADOT's public outreach and other options to submit testimony, read the LADOT press release, available on Streetsblog here.