Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Metrolink

For Metrolink It’s a 6% Fare Hike vs. Major Service Cuts

By Damien Newton | Dec 4, 2009 | 48 Comments

This was one of four cars on an Orange County Line run leaving Los Angeles Union Station to Orange County and Oceanside. It gets busier in Orange County. Photo and description: LA Wad/Flickr Two weeks ago, I celebrated that the Metrolink Board agreed to "look into other options" rather than raise fares by 6%. Maybe […]

Activism Success: Metrolink Riders Convince Board to Put Off Fare Hikes

By Damien Newton | Nov 17, 2009 | 15 Comments

Photo: Szoksnapshots/Flickr I owe an apology to any Streetsblog readers that ride Metrolink. While I was obsessing about bicycle and pedestrian access to the Gold Line, the Metrolink Board of Directors voted to delay a decision on a 6% fare hike. After receiving thousands of complaints on the proposed hike, which would have been the […]

Times Gives Metrolink’s Safety Record an In-Depth Critique

By Damien Newton | Oct 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photos: Los Angeles Times Last week, the Times took a close look at the Metrolink rail system to zero in on how the embattled agency is doing when it comes to improving safety for passengers and the drivers and pedestrians that cross the tracks. Their results? Over a year after a crash that killed 25 […]

Boxer Reminds Metrolink: Train Crew Members Shouldn’t Ride Solo

By Elana Schor | Sep 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

The transportation spending bill passed by the Senate this week includes $50 million in rail safety grants sought in June by environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) — but the bill may not become law for months, and today Boxer told California’s Metrolink commuter rail that interim safety protections would have to stay in place. Flickr photo: ProKelly This […]

Metrolink Board Holds Fare Increases

By Damien Newton | Apr 27, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo:SP8254/Flickr Trying to follow the lead given last year when Mayor Villaraigosa devised a way to hold off proposed and "needed" service cuts at Metro, the Metrolink Board of Directors voted last week to hold off on increasing fares for at least a month while it looks for other options. The Board was widely expected […]

Your Measure R Dollars at Work: Safer Metrolink

By Damien Newton | Feb 24, 2009 | No Comments

As the debate over how Measure R funds will be spent continues to be a hot topic amongst transit advocates, we continue to get specifics on how funds will be doled out piecemeal. First we heard that the state transit crisis would endanger the promised bus expansion and now we’re hearing that a small portion […]

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