Stephanie Wiggins To Become CEO of Metro
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Stephanie Wiggins is expected to be CEO for a four-year term, with a start date between May 30, 2021 and June 14, 2021, plus two, one-year options
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Agency Watch
Post-COVID Metro Transit Ridership Recovering, While Service Lags
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The state and county's relatively rapid steps toward re-opening are proceeding more quickly than Metro's slow crawl to restore transit service. The result is likely to be overcrowded buses.
L.A. Times Opinion Piece Amplifies Call to Nix Metro’s Harmful Freeway Widening
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"...why on earth is Metro prioritizing a problematic freeway expansion? ...at some point we need our transit agencies to draw a line in the sand. If they can’t end car-centric urban planning, they can certainly stop enabling it with freeway expansions."
Eagle Rock’s Colorado Boulevard Could Get “Dining, Parking, Walking, Bikes, and a Big Fat Bus”
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Metro is finalizing plans for its 18-mile long North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project
Advocates Urging Support for a Better Bus Rapid Transit for Eagle Rock at Hearing this Thursday
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Eagle Rock livability advocates’ Beautiful Boulevard proposal has been getting some traction at Metro… but not quite enough. Metro is nearing completion of public input on project environmental studies with one remaining community meeting this Thursday. Meeting details at the bottom this post. The Beautiful Boulevard proposal applies to a central stretch in Metro’s ~18-mile-long […]
How Metro Successfully Tunneled Through Challenging Conditions For First Wilshire Subway Extension
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Purple Line Extension Section 1 saw heroic efforts to probe conditions, avoid obstacles, and clear heavy steel beams in the way. Sections 2 and 3 follow.