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’s two largest juvenile detention facilities, at risk of closure for failing to meet minimum standards of safety and care, won a last-minute reprieve Thursday, April 11, when state regulators allowed them to remain open. The Board of State and Community Corrections, the regulatory board overseeing California’s prisons and juvenile halls, voted to … 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
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
Teens can no longer fly solo at the Del Amo Fashion Center — at least not after 3 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The Torrance shopping center, owned by Simon Property Group, began enforcing its new youth supervision policy on Friday, March 1. The policy, which Simon announced last week, requires minors to be accompanied … Read more
The City of Commerce allowed a tenant with ties to a businessman favored by City Hall to openly use a city-owned warehouse to sell bulk liquor, food products and energy drinks for nearly a year in violation of its own Municipal Code, a Southern California News Group investigation has revealed. Commerce was notified, but did … 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
