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Metro Service Changes Take Effect This Sunday, Including Fewer Night Trains
This Sunday, June 26, Metro will be making their twice yearly "service changes" to bus and rail service. This typically means minor cuts, often justifiable, but still incrementally making riders' lives a little worse and incrementally contributing to declines in ridership.
June 22, 2016
#DamienTalksSGV 11 – Metro, Cacciotti and 626 Golden Streets
UPDATE VIA BIKE SGV, JUNE 23 : BREAKING NEWS: #626GoldenStreets POSTPONED for a future date given unfavorable conditions due to San Gabriel Valley Complex Fire ??? Please be advised: Openstreets and all activities planned for #626GoldenStreets will no longer be held this Sunday.
June 21, 2016
Metro Board Committees Show Unanimity on November Sales Tax Proposal
Metro's newly revised November sales tax expenditure plan flew through two board committees this week with virtually no discussion. The proposal was approved unanimously by both the Planning and Programming Committee and the Executive Management Committee. The plan now goes to the full board for approval at this month's meeting on Thursday, June 23.
June 16, 2016
Metro CEO Announces Revised November Sales Tax Proposal
In a press briefing this afternoon, Metro CEO Phil Washington announced the latest changes to Metro's planned November sales tax ballot measure. The proposal, which Washington calls "the most comprehensive in the country," will be voted on by the Metro board in late June.
June 10, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Metro Expo Line 2 Has Parking Available
Someone get the word out to all those eager Metro Expo Line riders that the L.A. Times, Los Angeles Magazine and KTLA5 were so concerned about! Get the word out to Pacific Palisades! Lo and behold, it turns out that there is actually plenty of car parking available along the newly-opened Metro Expo Line phase 2.
June 8, 2016
South L.A. Celebrates Slate-Z’s Promise Zone Designation; Prepares to Roll up Sleeves and Get to Work
If at first you don't succeed in winning the Promise Zone designation from the Obama administration, try, try again.
June 7, 2016
How Can L.A. Sheriffs Support Buses and Bikes Sharing Bus-Only Lanes?
On bus-only lane signage in Los Angeles, there is a little two-word section at the bottom that reads, "BIKES OK."
June 3, 2016
City of Duarte’s Free Rails-to-Trails Gold Line Shuttle Open Saturdays in June
Los Angeles’s surrounding mountain ranges are often overlooked in the county’s popularized image as a smog-ridden, freeway megalopolis with admired Pacific beaches.
June 3, 2016
Today’s Beverly Hills vs. Metro Subway Court Hearing Inconclusive
At a federal court hearing this morning, attorneys for Beverly Hills and Metro clashed, but did not arrive at any conclusive outcome. It appears that Metro will likely need to do some additional environmental review (a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement or SEIS) before proceeding with construction on phase 2 of the Purple Line Subway extension, which is planned to tunnel below the city of Beverly Hills with stations in Beverly Hills and Century City.
June 1, 2016
Metro Awards Contract for Environmental Study and Design of Phase I of Rail-to-River Bike Path
As bike month comes to a close, we have some good news for South L.A. cyclists. At yesterday's Metro Board meeting, a $2 million contract was awarded to Cityworks Design to begin working on plans for a 6.4 mile segment of the Rail-to-River bike path project (segments A-1, A-2, and A-3, above).
May 27, 2016