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Rail-to-River Route Through Huntington Park, Bell Emerges as Best Candidate; Community Meeting December 8
Spoiler alert: of the four options Metro is considering, the Randolph Street option (B4) has ranked the highest. Not only would it help connect residents to more schools and other important community destinations, it would be able to provide residents with the safest way to reach those destinations. Best of all, it would add over four miles to the bike/pedestrian path and connect users to the river and the existing bike path there.
December 2, 2016
Metro Board Delays Transit Policing Contract For Three Months
At the end of today's nearly 6-hour Metro board of directors meeting, the vote on the staff-recommended $547 million multi-agency transit policing contract was pushed back three months. Metro's new transit policing arrangement would scale back the L.A. County Sheriffs Department's current role in favor of a majority of the work being done by LAPD.
December 1, 2016
Metro Board to Consider $547M Multi-Agency Transit Policing Contract
This Thursday, Metro's Board of Directors will consider a new contract for policing the agency's transit systems. Metro staff has recommended a five-year multi-agency policing proposal totaling $547 million. The proposal would split policing between the city of Los Angeles Police Department, LASD, and the city of Long Beach Police Department:
November 28, 2016
Koretz Takes Credit for Expo Line, While Spreading Blame for Its Flaws
Paul Koretz has delivered is the worst section of the Expo Line. Koretz’ section has a mile-long gap in the bike path. Koretz’ section has kids walking in the street because of a missing sidewalk between the Palms Station and Lycée Français High School.
November 18, 2016
Metro Committee Approves Expanded Paid Parking for 13 Park&Ride Stations
Yesterday, the Metro board of directors Planning and Programming Committee approved phase two of the agency's pilot program to charge for parking at transit stations. The promising new parking programs will maximize parking usage by people who actually ride Metro, while also generating modest revenues instead of ongoing losses.
November 17, 2016
Coalition Celebrates Measure M Passing By Nearly 70 Percent
It is official: Measure M passed. Los Angeles County has voted, again, to tax itself to pay for a suite of projects to facilitate transit, driving, walking and bicycling. Measure M will double Metro's 100 mile rail system over the next 40 years. As of this morning, Measure M achieved its needed two-thirds and is currently passing by 69.82 percent.
November 10, 2016
Cartoon Tuesday: Jay Leno Drives Foothill Transit’s Electric Bus
Not quite a cartoon, but today we feature a comedian. Watch the above 2012 video from Jay Leno's Garage where Leno learns the ins and outs of the latest in electric bus technology, specifically Foothill Transit's electric buses manufactured by Proterra which recently introduced an upgraded model. The bus features a steel-free balsa wood and fiberglass frame.
November 1, 2016
Metro Asks South L.A. Stakeholders: How Would You Use Rail-to-River Bike/Pedestrian Path?
"They've started work on that bike path!" a South Central bike shop owner announced excitedly after noticing mounds of dirt piled up in the rail right-of-way (ROW) at Slauson and Normandie.
October 26, 2016
Metro Bike Share’s 2017 Expansion Plans: Pasadena, Venice, Port of L.A.
On Wednesday, the Metro Planning and Programming Committee approved funding to expand Metro Bike Share in 2017. Operated by Bicycle Transit Systems, Metro Bike Share opened in downtown L.A. in July. In 2017, Metro would expand bike-share to new service areas in Pasadena, Venice, San Pedro, and Wilmington.
October 21, 2016
Metro Lowers ‘Angeli’ the Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine
This morning, Metro celebrated the ceremonial naming and lowering of the Regional Connector subway tunnel boring machine. Metro's newest TBM - another is currently tunneling portions of Metro's Crenshaw/LAX light rail line - is named "Angeli." The winning name was proposed by Windsor McInerny, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School.
October 19, 2016