When LA Metro’s staff announced that meeting the agency’s adopted goal of 100% zero-emission buses by 2030 was no longer achievable, three of the Los Angeles city-based Metro board members pushed back. Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian, L.A. City Council member Kate Yaroslavsky and Bass-appointee Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker joined together in … Read more
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, left, joins a Metro tour of the not yet completed Metro D (Purple) Line’s Wilshire/Fairfax station on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 in Los Angeles. Metro has completed the tunneling of the D (Purple) Line Subway Extension Project connecting downtown and West L.A. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily … Read more
In a victory for local unions, LA Metro has reversed course by canceling the proposed turnover of its bike share contract to Lyft, documents show. The contract was slated to go in February to Lyft’s subsidiary, Lyft Bikes and Scooters LLC, but that was abruptly squashed after heated protests from unions and gig drivers said … Read more
For thousands of homeowners who are trying to protect their families from strong odors of decaying garbage and eye-stinging chemicals from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, their problems are costing money, and a new county program was announced Tuesday that may provide some financial relief. Los Angeles County is offering affected homeowners two ways … Read more
Up to one-third of those in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage of functioning buses, the county reported on Tuesday, March 19. A breakdown in the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s inmate transportation system has kept seven jails in the county system overcrowded with inmates who might have … Read more
Transit officials in Southern California reported incidents of buses avoiding standing water and fallen trees and some train delays, but overall the public transportation system is operating fairly well in the midst of a multi-day, torrential storm that is dropping record amounts of precipitation. With dozens of canyon roadways closed, and a mudslide closing off … Read more
After 1,200 name submissions and nearly 4,500 votes from the public, LA Metro’s poorly-named “West Santa Ana Branch” light-rail project, which will take riders from Artesia to Los Angeles — not to Santa Ana or Orange County — got a new name on Monday, Jan. 22. The Southeast Gateway Line was born amid shouts of … Read more
Despite steady ridership growth, LA Metro faces budget challenges in the next few months as managers seek ways to tackle escalating operating costs and revenue shortages to make up for Metro’s loss of federal pandemic bailout dollars that helped them balance the last three budgets. “We are facing a fiscal cliff, too. We are trying … Read more
Metro’s ride-hailing, on-demand, e-taxi program — the most costly service per ride offered by the Los Angeles County transit agency — faces some significant changes, including a big fare hike, possible service area cutbacks and even elimination. LA Metro’s MicroTransit runs nine-seat blue vans that pick up individuals at their location and drop them off … Read more
From a major freeway shutdown to the opening of carpool lanes and two new passenger rail lines, the transportation picture in Southern California saw some notable changes in 2023. Since 21 million residents are fragmented by barriers, mostly by geography, but also by the daily blockages created by soul-stealing traffic, not everyone will have noticed … Read more
