This article also appears at Streetsblog. All images via Metro Board presentation yesterday. At yesterday’s Metro board meeting, staff presented on how recent ICE raids and demonstrations have impacted Metro. The staff report shed some light on what has taken place in recent…
At Sunday’s L.A. Press Club awards ceremony, Streetsblog L.A. – again – took home the award for best Group Blog. The award acknowledges the 2024 calendar year work of SBLA Editors Sahra Sulaiman and Joe Linton, San Gabriel Valley reporters Chris Greenspon…
I spent this afternoon downtown observing the fifth day of Los Angeles protests against ICE raids targeting Southern California residents. This post is not a comprehensive account of the disruption and terror wrought on L.A. by federal raids, but a…
This article first appeared at Streetsblog, where there are even more images! The wait is over! Mostly. The Metro K and C Lines now connect to LAX airport via a landmark station, the impressive LAX Metro Transit Center. The station…
Today, the Metro board was supposed to approve a $200 million five-year contract for Lyft to operate Metro Bike Share. But the Lyft contract approval was withdrawn from the meeting agenda, leaving Metro Bike Share’s next chapter unclear. This week’s…
After a succesful pilot program in 2023, Santa Monica began working on a permanent program for cracking down on illegal car parking in bus lanes. The Big Blue Bus has been telling advocates the program will “hopefully” launch next month.…
It is very much still a construction site, but there’s a lot of progress visible on Santa Monica’s new first/last mile connections to the Metro E Line 26th Street/Bergamot Station. Bergamot Station has typically seen about a thousand daily boardings, which…
In 2023, the state legislature approved Senator Lena Gonzalez’ S.B. 695 which mandated Caltrans share project data publicly. One result of the new legislation is a new Caltrans’ report summing up five years of freeway expansion throughout the state. The report may…
This story also appears at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Many Streetsblog readers and Metro riders already know this story: Metro ridership keeps on growing steadily. Recently released ridership data from January shows twenty-six consecutive months of increases. January 2025 saw 918,375…
Gesturing toward the nearly completed Wilshire/La Brea Metro station, U.S. Representative Laura Friedman warned “The Trump Administration proposed cuts to federal investments to support this stop, this train stop that is months away from opening.” “How crazy is that?” Metro…
On Monday, February 17, Metro will begin issuing $293 citations to cars parked in bus lanes or at bus stops. The new program is expected to improve bus speed and reliability, and increase ridership. Initially the program will ticket just…
The following article also appears on Streetsblog Los Angeles. Metro’s board of directors approved a motion to marshal agency resources in support of victims of major ongoing wildfires. The motion, introduced last week by Board Chair and County Supervisor Janice Hahn,…
This story also appears at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Photo: Metro/Caltrans 57/60 Freeway expansion project construction this month by Joe Linton. Climate disruption is here. Right now. It’s past time that Southern California transportation heavyweights – including Metro and Caltrans –…
Bus riders were looking forward to faster and more dependable service as automated bus lane enforcement was planned to start ticketing this week. But the start date for citations has now been postponed to February 17. Automated bus lane enforcement…
It’s time for me, Streetsblog L.A. Editor Joe Linton, to make some predictions for calendar year 2025. Note that in the past, my rosy predictions were not all successful, so don’t take these for granted, either. Metro ridership will keep growing…
