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Editorial: Why Raise Metro Fares While Giving Away Metro Parking?
Metro is proposing to increase, or restructure, its $1.50 base transit fare to $1.75 later this year, with further increases planned in 2017 and 2020. Metro anticipates that this will increase its fare recovery - the percentage of operations costs that are paid for by fare revenues - from 25 percent to 33 percent. Metro foresees that this fare increase will "deflect" riders; a small percentage of people who currently take Metro will opt not to ride.
March 30, 2014
Digital Cities, Smarter Transportation – Conference Highlights
Yesterday, Streetsblog L.A. attended Digital Cities, Smarter Transportation, a one-day conference on "technology and the future of mobility, cities, and regions" hosted by the UCLA Lewis Center and the UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies. Here are a few highlights from the proceedings:
March 21, 2014
Ethan Elkind’s Railtown – How Planning, Engineering and Mostly Politics Shape L.A. Rail
The UC Berkeley Faculty Club meeting room was packed on Tuesday evening with people who came to hear Ethan Elkind talk about his book, Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City.
March 13, 2014
Federal Changes Causing Metro to Withdraw Previously Approved Funding for Bike and Ped Projects
At last week's board meeting, Metro weighed the future of its commitment to funding active transportation: walking and bicycling. Changes in federal government funding are leading Metro to withdraw from its past bike and ped programs.
March 6, 2014
Metro Scores $200 Million in Obama’s Proposed Budget
There is much celebrating going on by Metro and transit expansion advocates around the region. In President Barack Obama's proposed budget for next year, a cool $200 million is set aside for Los Angeles under the "new starts" program. $100 million of that is set to go towards the Regional Connector and the other $100 million to the Westside Subway extension.
March 4, 2014
Legislation Would Change Composition of Metro Board, Adding Two Appointees of State Legislature
L.A. County residents have long complained that they don't receive a fair share of funds from Metro, noting that many transit projects take place inside of the City of Los Angeles. Now, legislation by Assemblyman Chris Holden, seeks to change that reality by adding to new seats to the Metro Board of Directors.
February 27, 2014
Reorganization or Shakeup? Change in Metro Staff Has Some Wondering About Highway Projects
"It's a bloodletting."
February 24, 2014
Second Time is Not a Charm: Community Still Vociferously Opposed to Plans for Lorena Plaza in Boyle Heights
What had ever happened to the plans to turn the space on the corner of Lorena and 1st St. into a fitness parklet?
February 21, 2014
Freewaves Debuts “Long Live LA” Tonight and on Transit TV
Tonight, Freewaves will present its newest Out the Window series, Long Live LA, at a special screening at ForYourArt on Wilshire Boulevard in Mid-town. A full calendar placement can be found at the bottom of this post.
February 20, 2014
Metro Diary: Every Day He’s Hustlin’
The well-dressed and good-looking young man with enormous glasses walked toward where I was standing at the front of the packed Blue Line car, gave me a wink and a smile, then turned around and began delivering his sales pitch for headphones to the passengers.
February 19, 2014