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Overview of Metro’s Proposed Fiscal Year 22-23 Budget
Metro's $8.8 billion FY22-23 budget includes transit service hours returning to pre-COVID levels, but so did the FY21-22 budget. Metro is also increasing annual funding for freeway expansion, while decreasing annual funding for transit expansion.
May 10, 2022
Affordable Housing Breaks Ground above Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Station
Little Tokyo Service Center's Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments will be 187-units, 100 percent affordable, with half low-income units and half permanent supportive housing for unhoused Angelenos - plus ground floor retail
May 4, 2022
Metro and LADOT Planning Bus Lanes on Florence Avenue in South L.A.
New Florence Avenue bus lanes would extend 5.3 miles from Crenshaw/LAX Line Fairview Heights Station (West Boulevard) to the A (Blue) Line Florence Station
May 3, 2022
Mayoral Candidates’ Thoughts about Metro Given Only Brief Moment to Shine in Cal State L.A. Forum
In between some weird questions and the sparring matches with Caruso, candidates were asked when they last rode Metro
May 2, 2022
Friday Bike Stories Round-Up: Recent Lanes, Metro Bike Share, Rail2Rail
Metro Bike Share funded through mid-2023, Rail-to-Rail path construction now expected in May, and new bikeway on Burbank Boulevard and Second Avenue
April 29, 2022
Metro Board Approves Bus Rapid Transit through North Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, Eagle Rock, and Pasadena
NoHo-Pasadena BRT received unanimous support of the Metro board of directors, many of whom held the project up as a model for additional BRT lines expected to follow
April 28, 2022
Metro/Caltrans 605/5 Freeway Expansion Approval is a Year Off
Metro is planning community outreach and a less harmful 605CIP alternative to be incorporated into a new EIR/EIS document to be released about a year from now
April 26, 2022
Eyes on the Street: New First Street Protected Bike Lane
The new First Street lane extends 0.6-mile from Mission Road to Alameda Street - it's part of Metro's Little Tokyo/Arts District Eastside Access Improvements
April 25, 2022
Metro Committee Approves Plan For NoHo-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit
Metro Planning Committee approved final plans for the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project - with the Beautiful Boulevard's "one lane" configuration through Eagle Rock
April 22, 2022
Preview of Metro’s Nearly Completed Regional Connector Subway
New downtown L.A. subway due to open in late 2022
April 18, 2022
