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Metro Extends Free Student Pass Program through June 2024
Metro extended free student GoPass rides through the end of June 2024. More than 241,000 students have already registered as GoPass participants, representing nearly 20 percent of the county's 2+ million students.
May 2, 2023
City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez on MacArthur Park Station, the Surrounding Community, and Metro’s Pilot Interventions
"We can’t and shouldn’t resort to hostile infrastructure. It lowers the quality of life for everyone who has to use that space, those who are housed and unhoused, who are riding the subway."
April 25, 2023
Metro MacArthur Park Station Pilot: So Far, Heavy on Punitive Measures
Metro turned down the torture music, but more MacArthur Park station interventions are planned - including getting around to some positive programs
April 20, 2023
Foothill Gold Line: Bridge and Crossing Construction Done Up to Pomona
Grade crossings? Done… Bridges? Built... Funding to make it to Montclair? We’ll see about that.
April 12, 2023
Metro Cut Late Night Rail Service, Blamed Regional Connector
Metro cut A Line late night service by 47 minutes, E Line by 46 minutes, Eastside L Line by 31 minutes, and Foothill L Line by an hour and 12 minutes
April 11, 2023
Streets for All Announces ‘Westwood Connected’ Bus/Walk/Bike Campaign
No UCLA student should have to risk their life to get to/from the Expo line, or even just around Westwood Village
April 10, 2023
Digging a Little Deeper Into Metro’s FY23-24 Proposed Highway Budget
Metro shuffles budget items around, which obscures how much its freeway expansion budget is increasing
March 28, 2023
Board Extends Metro’s Problematic Transit Policing Contract for Three More Years
Metro currently pays about $150 million per year for its multi-agency policing contract with LAPD, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, and Long Beach Police Department
March 23, 2023
Metro Poised to Waste $8 Million More on Costly ‘Metro Micro’ MicroTransit Pilot
Metro board: please just pull the plug on micro-effective Metro Micro this month. Don't keep throwing bad money after bad money.
March 21, 2023
Friday Newsbits: Bike Lanes and Metro Rail Service/Ridership
Metro rail service and ridership graphs, new bike lanes on Fountain Avenue, newly protected bike lanes on White Oak Avenue, and more
March 17, 2023
