Recent Streetsblog LA posts about buses

Two Vermont Avenue BRT options - from Metro staff report

Metro Board to Vote on Vermont Transit Environmental Studies – Proposals Include Center-Running BRT and Rail

By Joe Linton | Apr 23, 2019 | 3 Comments

This week Metro will be voting on transit improvements for one of its heaviest bus ridership corridors - Vermont Avenue

L.A.'s transit workhorse: the Metro bus. Photo via Wikimedia

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Advocates Call for Metro’s NexGen Bus Re-Org to Invest in World-Class Bus Network

By Joe Linton | Mar 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

Advocates are calling on Metro's NextGen Bus Study to invest in the bus network, to improve equity and transparency, to coordinate with cities, and to study how to expand service.

What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?

By Joe Linton | Feb 8, 2019 | 14 Comments

For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.

Congestion Pricing, Metro, and Why Project Acceleration Might Not Be Such a Great Thing

By Joe Linton | Dec 7, 2018 | 16 Comments

Why not use this Olympic opportunity to uplift L.A.'s bus systems?

Will this new Metro BRT study be different?

Metro Embarks on (Another) Bus Rapid Transit Study

By Joe Linton | Oct 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

Why do bus riders get studies - while drivers and rail riders get plans and projects?

SGV Connect 24: Double Decker Buses and Open Space Funding

By Damien Newton and Kristopher Fortin | Aug 9, 2018 | No Comments

New podcast episode explores Foothill Transit's planned double-decker electric buses and funding for SGV parks and open space.

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