Recent Streetsblog LA posts about buses

Advocates are pushing for Metro's NextGen bus study to actually improve bus service. Photo via Wikimedia

Advocates Call for Metro’s NexGen Bus Re-Org to Invest in World-Class Bus Network

By Joe Linton | Mar 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

Advocates are calling on Metro's NextGen Bus Study to invest in the bus network, to improve equity and transparency, to coordinate with cities, and to study how to expand service.

What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?

By Joe Linton | Feb 8, 2019 | 14 Comments

For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.

Congestion Pricing, Metro, and Why Project Acceleration Might Not Be Such a Great Thing

By Joe Linton | Dec 7, 2018 | 16 Comments

Why not use this Olympic opportunity to uplift L.A.'s bus systems?

Will this new Metro BRT study be different?

Metro Embarks on (Another) Bus Rapid Transit Study

By Joe Linton | Oct 29, 2018 | 1 Comment

Why do bus riders get studies - while drivers and rail riders get plans and projects?

SGV Connect 24: Double Decker Buses and Open Space Funding

By Damien Newton and Kristopher Fortin | Aug 9, 2018

New podcast episode explores Foothill Transit's planned double-decker electric buses and funding for SGV parks and open space.

Car parked in Wilshre Blvd bus-only lane. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

How Can Metro and Cities Make Bus-Only Lanes Effective?

By Joe Linton | Jun 29, 2018 | 19 Comments

Phil Washington called for more enforcement to get scofflaw drivers out of bus-only lanes, but sometimes enforcement erroneously targets bicyclists. What works?

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