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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
Preliminary FY23-24 Metro Budget Would (Again) Increase Freeway Funding, While Cutting Transit
Metro staff recommendation for next year's budget: a 5 percent increase in freeway construction and a 5 percent decrease in transit construction
March 15, 2023
Metro’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Proposal, First Step: Just Keep Paying Police and Sheriff
The current proposal is a three-year extension of the ~$130 million/year multi-agency contract negotiated back in 2017, not a fully-fleshed-out reimagined approach to public safety advocates and many transit users had hoped to see
March 14, 2023
Metro Officially Launches 300-Strong Transit Ambassadors Program
Boardmember Holly Mitchell; "unarmed and well-trained... ambassadors riding the system every day" are "already making a significant difference [and have] already saved lives,"
March 6, 2023
