Remembering Dana Gabbard – 1962-2022
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Los Angeles lost one of its most knowledgeable, passionate, and persistent transit advocates: Dana Gabbard
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Ride the Owls with So.CA.TA on Their Annual Day-After-Thanksgiving Tour
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Traditionally Southern Caifornia Transit Advocates does a day-after-thanksgiving study tour , usually to explore service in far-flung areas outside urban Los Angeles (Santa Barbara, San Diego, Victorville, Bakersfield). This year we are doing something different. We are riding owl service in the L.A. area, Friday evening into Saturday morning. This is service that operates in […]
Electric Bus Company BYD Offers Private Tour with So.CA.TA. on Friday
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(In the absence of a “Week in Livable” Streets Events, we’re going to highlight some of our favorite events coming up this weekend – DN) Electric bus manufacturer Build Your Dreams (BYD) has kindly offered Southern California Transit Advocates an opportunity to tour their electric bus manufacturing plant in Lancaster this Friday, July 11th. The […]
Ride the New sbX BRT with So.CA.TA. Tomorrow
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Tomorrow, Friday May 2nd, Southern California Transit Advocates (SoCATA) is touring of Omnitrans’ sbX Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) express service. Omnitrans sbX started operating Monday. Our hope is by highlighting its key attribute, dedicated stations along an exclusive bus lane, that sbX will inspire aspirations in Los Angeles County as Metro studies corridors for a proposed BRT […]
Thoughts on Metro’s Fare Restructuring
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(I want to be explicit this is solely my own opinion, and in no way endorsed by either Streetsblog or Southern California Transit Advocates – DG But I can’t help notice that So.CA.TA. has a special meeting just to discuss the changes this Saturday. – DN) Metro staff recently released two options for fare restructuring […]
What’s Going on with the Wilshire BRT? This Weekend’s So.CA.TA Meeting Has the Answers
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Due to the Yom Kippur holiday the September meeting of Southern California Transit Advocates is this Saturday, the 21st (normally we meet on the second Saturday). The guest speaker will be a representative of Metro making a presentation on the status of the Wilshire bus lane project. This will start at 2:15 pm at Angelus […]