Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Advocacy

Going to a Really Long Metro Board Meeting So You Don’t Have To

By Damien Newton | Nov 29, 2007 | 6 Comments

It is refreshing to go to a transit agency board meeting where everything isn’t decided in advance and actual discussion of issues goes on. Back in Jersey, most decisions are made before the meeting starts, and other than listening to the advocates complain, the meetings are all done pretty quick. Today’s meeting was anything but […]

Thomas Rubin Tells Transit Coalition: LA Needs More Buses…Not Trains

By Damien Newton | Nov 28, 2007 | 7 Comments

Tom Rubin has been active in the Transportation scene for a long time, having worked in Metro, with the Bus Rider’s Union on its land mark lawsuit against Metro Fare Hikes, and now as a private consultant. For just as long he’s been arguing that bus, not rail, is the key to a successful urban […]

Update on Two Transit Fare Increases…

By Damien Newton | Nov 14, 2007 | No Comments

Metro and LADOT eliminating free transfers on Metro Monthly Passes: Thanks to Bart Reed of the Transit Coalition for tracking this down. As StreetHeat reported last week, the free transfer between Metro and Dash buses downtown will be eliminated on January 1, 2008 as part of Metro’s roll out of the TAP cards. However, its […]

Metro Packs the House at Downtown Connector Meeting

By Damien Newton | Nov 6, 2007 | No Comments

(Hello readers from the Transit Coalition. You can read other Street Heat transit coverage from the past week here, here, and here.) A large and enthusiastic audience attended today’s Metro meeting on the Regional Connector Transit Corridor Study at the public library. A standing-room-only room couldn’t fit all interested parties, and Metro Staff actually had […]

Mail Call: Lets Talk Expo

By Damien Newton | Nov 6, 2007 | No Comments

The debate over how ebst to build Phase II of the Expo Line continues to be the most-talked about transit issue out there. Yesterday Metro Rider published a letter from Damien Goodman pleading his case for better grade separations, and local civic groups did mass emails with similar pleas (below). Light Rail for Cheviot reponded […]

Letter 1: Light Rail for Cheviot’s Response

By Damien Newton | Nov 6, 2007 | No Comments

All: Light Rail for Cheviot has been forwarded copies of an identical emailfrom Westwood Gardens Civic Association and West of Westwood HomeownersAssociation, see way below. We have the following comments. The unsigned email correctly states that the Expo Board voted to studytwo routes, the ROW and the Venice/Sepulveda route, and (in the middle)it concedes that […]

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