Recent Streetsblog LA posts about DASH

This Week’s L.A. Transportation Committee: Vision Zero, Parking, CicLAvia

By Joe Linton | Sep 10, 2015 | 1 Comment

Yesterday’s Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee touched on a number of items related to Los Angeles livability. Below is a brief recap of highlights. All these committee actions still need to be approved by the full city council before going into effect. Vision Zero and Pedestrian Enforcement – Council File 15-0546 This is the second committee […]

LADOT Seeking Input on Plan to Offer Discount to TAP Users

By Dana Gabbard | Aug 27, 2014 | 3 Comments

Are reduced fares on the way for users of LADOT’s TAP on DASH bus service? The LADOT recently held public hearings seeking comments on proposed new Electronic Payment Incentive Fares along with sharing new Disparate Impact and Disproportionate Burden Fare Policies that it says “are supportive of the incentive fares, and also establish criteria for how […]

Feedback from DASH Hearings: Cuts Bad, Hikes Reasonable

By Damien Newton | Mar 3, 2010 | 6 Comments

Photo: Fred Camino/Flickr Tonight is the last of the five hearings on the major service changes that have been proposed for LADOT’s transit services, DASH, Commuter Express, City Ride and Charter Bus Service. The first four hearings have seen crowds of various sizes, with packed house’s at the hearings in the San Fernando Valley’s hearing […]

Activists Respond to DASH Cuts and Hikes. LADOT Schedules Public Hearings

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2010 | 5 Comments

Photo:Tingwananpar/Flickr As the Los Angeles Department of Transportation prepares for five public hearings next month and in early March, activists are responding to their proposed series of cuts and fare hikes that will close the city’s budget hole…at least when it comes to it’s transit services. Unlike the reaction we saw two years ago when […]

LADOT Outlines Massive Cuts, Fare Hikes, for DASH

By Damien Newton | Jan 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

This route won’t be alone in seeing a cut…but at least it survives. Photo: rjmconnel/Flickr For much of the last year, Los Angeles’ transit riders were spared much of the suffering caused by the Governor and legislature’s decisions to eliminate transit funding in the name of partially closing the yawning chasm which is the state’s […]

Metro Moving Ahead with Bus Expansion

By Damien Newton | Mar 16, 2009 | 10 Comments

Photo: Scott Page via Metro Library/Flickr Despite the elimination of transit subsidies from our Greenhouse-Gas-Battling Governor and the Democratically controlled state legislature, Metro is pushing forward with plans to expand and improve bus service thanks to increased funding from Measure R. A report to the Metro Board’s Measure R committee shows that just because the […]

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