This Thursday the Metro board Operations Committee will receive a staff report with a few new details on Metro’s microtransit pilot, marketed as Metro Micro. Metro keeps trying to put a good face on the costly and inefficient program, which annually siphons…
I t is now three months since the March election when voters approved the Healthy Streets L.A. initiative, resoundingly supporting making L.A. streets safer and more multimodal. Measure HLA took effect April 9. Measure HLA requires the city of L.A. to gradually…
Metro is adding TAP fare card validators at the back doors of all its buses. Soon riders will be able to skip lines at the front door, instead boarding any door along the bus. All-door boarding is common on many…
A couple months after L.A. City voters overwhelmingly demanded safer streets via Measure HLA, the city appears to be installing fewer safety upgrades than before the vote. Last week, the city repaved what appears to be the first test case for the new…
Streetsblog caught up with Jarrett Walker during his recent visit to Southern California. Walker’s name is familiar to many Streetsblog readers. He and his firm, Jarrett Walker and Associates, are the strategists behind of numerous successful bus network redesigns, which inspired…
Metro bus riders will soon see faster bus speeds when Metro and L.A. City get a new bus lane enforcement program underway this year. Metro is adding on-bus cameras that will automatically issue tickets to drivers parking in bus lanes…
There’s little public discussion of Santa Monica hosting its own Open Streets event again, the last Santa Monica Coast was years before the pandemic; but CicLAvia returns to the Westside and Santa Monica’s backyard later this month. For the uninitiated,…
Last week, Metro canceled a controversial procurement for its bike-share operations. Philadelphia-based Bicycle Transit Systems (BTS) is the current contractor until their contract runs out on August 30. It’s likely that the BTS contract will be extended, but Metro isn’t commenting…
The following article first appeared in Streetsblog Los Angeles Later today, he Metro board Budget and Finance Committee will receive a presentation on draft budget figures for Fiscal Year 2024-25 which starts in July. This week’s presentation [staff report] reveals…
This story first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. It generally takes three weeks for L.A. County to tally final election results, but all but the closest nail-biter races are generally settled by the end of the first week of results…
2023 may be over, but here’s a look back at some pending issues that Streetsblog L.A. hoped might be finished by now. Downtown LA Metro Station Bike/Walk Connections Metro, with sign-off from the L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT), shortchanged riders walking…
This post first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. Metro is considering making some minor changes to its costly inefficient MicroTransit pilot, called Metro Micro. The agency is receiving public input via email and at several meetings this month – see meeting…
You guessed it, this post first appeared at Streetsblog Los Angeles. It’s time for Streetsblog L.A. editor Joe Linton to make some predictions for 2023. Note that in the past, my overly-rosy predictions were not all that successful, so don’t take…
Southern California transit ridership had a pretty good year. Metro ridership, recently increasing, continued its upward trends. This week, Metro released November ridership figures showing an 11.3 percent increase in total system ridership compared to November 2022. Many Streetsblog readers know how…
This article first appeared in Streetsblog Los Angeles. “Watch out, Amsterdam,” proclaimed Santa Monica Mayor Gleam Davis. “We are going to be the bike capital of the world.” The bold statement reflected the city’s accomplishments and aspirations as leaders gathered…
