Recent Streetsblog LA posts about FTA

BRU Sets Sights on President Obama. Urges Overruling of FTA Decision on Metro Civil Rights Complaints

By Damien Newton | Apr 25, 2012 | 13 Comments

The Federal Transit Administration seems pleased with the progress being made by Metro to change the way it does business to be in compliance with federal civil rights statutes. Rather than requiring major changes to the way Metro does business, the FTA seems content with changes to its outreach and reporting methods. The FTA began […]

Advocates Respond: What to Make of the FTA’s Civil Rights Report on Metro

By Damien Newton | Dec 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

fta civil rights compliance review for L.A Metro Over the past week, Streetsblog published four stories on the Federal Transit Administration’s report on Title VI Civil Rights violations at Metro. Most of our reporting focused on the conflict between the Bus Riders Union and Metro staff on what the report means. However, advocates around the […]

BRU to Metro: Let Public in on Civil Rights Remedies

By Damien Newton | Dec 16, 2011 | 7 Comments

Yesterday, the Metro Board of Directors discussed the recently released FTA Report detailing Title VI Civil Rights violations at Metro. The Source called the discussion “by far the liveliest part of the meeting,” but it also showed ongoing confusion about what the report means and what is the best way to meet the complaints. Mayor […]

FTA Chooses Crenshaw Line for Federal Fast Track, Will It Lead to Faster Start Date?

By Damien Newton | Oct 12, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, the White House announced that the Crenshaw Light Rail Line is one of fourteen projects nationwide selected to be part of an expedited federal review so that construction could proceed more quickly. This announcement was met with praise from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Senator Barbara Boxer and County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Ridley-Thomas even went so […]

FTA: Transit Maintenance — Not Just Expansion — Will Grow Ridership

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

Aging infrastructure across the country has become an enormous safety risk. It’s also becoming an economic hazard. Last year, the Federal Transit Administration announced that the seven largest rail transit systems had a backlog of $50 billion in maintenance needs to bring them into a state of good repair. In June, the agency determined that […]

Metro Misses Out on Federal “New Starts” Funding

By Damien Newton | Feb 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

For a full copy of the map, visit The Source Earlier this week, Streetsblog Capitol Hill’s Elana Schor wrote about the transit agencies across the country that received federal "New Starts" funding. As is common knowledge now, Los Angeles was shut out, receiving $0 in federal funds in this round of funding from the federal […]

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