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Streetsblog T-Shirt Contest: Metrolink, Your Bike, and You
Earlier this week, The Source announced that it is adding a pair of bike cars to the Antelope Valley Inland Empire Line. While this is generally considered good news, even though some Source readers have some pretty valid concerns, I hate The Source's picture. One bike, one lonely and clearly posed bike, alone on a giant car. To be fair to the Source, it's not their picture.
August 5, 2011
Metrolink Moves Forward with Some Service Cuts
The Southern California Transit Advocate's Ken Ruben reports from today's Metrolink Board meeting that the agency is moving forward with some of the proposed service cuts that the agency first proposed in the fall of 2009. As you may remember, debate raged and eventually the Board asked staff to look at other options, which of course included a rate hike. The Metrolink Board voted for these cuts instead of a fare hike.
January 8, 2010
The Transit Coalition’s “Simplified Network” Could Create Millions for Metrolink
Last week, the Metrolink Board of Directors punted on the decision on how to balance their budget through either fare hikes, service cuts, or a mix of both until sometime in 2010. While some riders breathed a sigh of relief that Metrolink didn't fill their Holiday Stockings with some regressive transportation policy; it seems inevitable that the Board is only delaying what will ultimately be an unpopular and difficult decision.
December 17, 2009
For Metrolink It’s a 6% Fare Hike vs. Major Service Cuts
Two weeks ago, I celebrated that the Metrolink Board agreed to "look into other options" rather than raise fares by 6%.
December 4, 2009
Activism Success: Metrolink Riders Convince Board to Put Off Fare Hikes
I owe an apology to any Streetsblog readers that ride Metrolink. While I was obsessing about bicycle and pedestrian access to the Gold Line, the Metrolink Board of Directors voted to delay a decision on a 6% fare hike. After receiving thousands of complaints on the proposed hike, which would have been the agency's second in six months, to try and figure out how to make the cuts needed to maintain the current fare structure. Congratulations, Metrolink riders. You spoke out and the agency heard you.
November 17, 2009
Times Gives Metrolink’s Safety Record an In-Depth Critique
Last week, the Times took a close look at the Metrolink rail system to zero in on how the embattled agency is doing when it comes to improving safety for passengers and the drivers and pedestrians that cross the tracks. Their results? Over a year after a crash that killed 25 people when a freight train and a Metrolink train collided head-on, the agency still isn't making the grade.
October 1, 2009
Boxer Reminds Metrolink: Train Crew Members Shouldn’t Ride Solo
The transportation spending bill passed by the Senate this week includes $50 million in rail safety grants sought in June
by environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) -- but the
bill may not become law for months, and today Boxer told California's
Metrolink commuter rail that interim safety protections would have to
stay in place.
September 21, 2009
Metrolink Board Holds Fare Increases
Trying to follow the lead given last year when Mayor Villaraigosa devised a way to hold off proposed and "needed" service cuts at Metro, the Metrolink Board of Directors voted last week to hold off on increasing fares for at least a month while it looks for other options.
April 27, 2009
Metrolink’s Problems Go Beyond an Engineer and His Cell Phone
The NTSB "Recreates" the September 12 Crash in Chatsworth
September 22, 2008