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Activists Respond to DASH Cuts and Hikes. LADOT Schedules Public Hearings
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.
January 20, 2010
LADOT Outlines Massive Cuts, Fare Hikes, for DASH
For much of the last year, Los Angeles' transit riders were spared much of the suffering caused by the Governor and legislature's decisions to eliminate transit funding in the name of partially closing the yawning chasm which is the state's budget deficit. However, those days are long gone. Already we've seen a large service cut plan passed by the Metrolink Board of Directors. Today we see the outline of a coming massive service cut for LADOT's DASH, Commuter Express, Charter Bus, and City Ride bus services.
January 11, 2010
Metro Moving Ahead with Bus Expansion
Despite the elimination of transit subsidies from our Greenhouse-Gas-Battling Governor and the Democratically controlled state legislature, Metro is pushing forward with plans to expand and improve bus service thanks to increased funding from Measure R. A report to the Metro Board's Measure R committee shows that just because the state has bowed out of the transit funding game, all is not lost for those who supported Measure R because they wanted better bus service.
March 16, 2009
Update on Last Week’s DASH Crash and Pedestrian Fatality
News and opinion continues to come in on last week's horrific crash between a DASH bus and 58 year old pedestrian Gwendolyn Coleman. The most important of which came yesterday when Steve Hymon reported at LA Now that the police have determined that Coleman had the right away and a green light when the DASH bus slammed into her.
January 13, 2009