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Sector Board Also Against Service Cuts

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Residents Get on the Bus in the Valley Just before last night’s hearing was gaveled to a close, Board Member Kymberleigh Richards stopped the chairman before the meeting was ended. It was a good thing she did, because each board member took a turn discussing their views on the service cuts (all were negative in […]

San Fernando Valley Service Cuts Hearing Report

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Francisca Sanchez didn’t testify but made her opinion known. More than 60 people showed up to ask Metro to cancel or modify some of their proposed service cuts in San Fernando Valley earlier this evening (Wednesday). What wasn’t surprising was that so many members of the public came out on a Christian religious holiday, but […]

Expo Board Talking Dorsey High Tomorrow

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As we get closer to tomorrow’s monthly meeting (2 p.m. at 500 Temple Street) of the Expo Metro Line Construction Authority both sides in the debate over crossings at Dorsey High School have been actively firing up the troops. Tomorrow’s expected fireworks will be over agenda item 6d which would re-examine the crossing designed for […]

Input Wanted?

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More maps are at the bottom of this article Tomorrow marks the beginning of Metro’s "service modification" hearings which will cut 200,000 hours of service from bus routes across the region. The agency has made some effort to get the word out posting flyers in buses and sending out a press release back in Mid-January. […]

Transit Coalition Blasts Service Cuts

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Bart Reed of the Transit Coalition takes off the kid gloves in this week’s LA City Beat accusing the Mayor of being the instigator for over 200,000 hours of cuts to Metro’s bus system and Board Member Yvonne Burke of being hysterical and wrong about the need for turnstiles. The interview can be divided into […]

Quotes That Matter from Folks That Matter

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After reading the very comprehensive coverage of yesterday’s meetings on some of the other blogs around town, I decided that rather than write a long coverage post on what’s already been written, that I would instead just pull out some highlight quotes from many of the leaders that were there yesterday. Before I get into […]