Metro Board Approves FY2020 Budget, Locking in Rail Service Cuts
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Metro's $7.2 billion FY2020 budget keeps bus service level, while cutting rail service on Gold, Expo and Blue rail lines.
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transportation Funding
What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?
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For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.
In San Joaquin County, Local Sales Tax Funds Bike, Ped Projects
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SJCOG awarded funds for 21 projects in San Joaquin County, including off-street bike paths, on-street bike lanes, signaled bike routes, cycletracks, sidewalks, crosswalks, pedestrian crossing beacons, and several studies.
Metro Not Quite Ready for First/Last Mile Funding for Purple Line Phase 2
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Just when the Metro board was on the verge of adopting a policy to incorporate first/last mile, including bike and walk, connections into “the planning, design, and construction of all [Metro] transit projects,” Metro staff postponed including first/last mile connections to the second phase of Purple Line subway expansion. The issue before the board was Metro’s […]
L.A. City Already Looking At How To Carve Up $4B Local Return
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Metro has not yet decided whether to have a Measure R2 sales tax on the November ballot; that will come next month. The voting public has not yet passed the measure by two-thirds; that would hopefully come in November. But the L.A. City Council is already trying to decide how to spend their chunk of the […]
Manuel Pastor’s Recommendations for Metro’s 2016 Ballot Measure
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At Move L.A.’s Transportation Conversation 8 yesterday, USC professor Manuel Pastor had a list of recommendations for Metro as the agency seeks to finalize and pass its anticipated $120 billion November sales tax measure. For many years, Pastor has been an important voice for equity and justice. Adopting his recommendations would go a long way […]