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May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Metro Ops Cmte mtg: now on COO report - Cheung notes that ridership is rebounding - higher on bus than rail - says May has been good month. Notes that cancelations are low (hovering at the low end of 1-3% - [still higher than 1% pre-COVID])
Report on elevators and escalators - Metro has picked up elevator floor replacement and corrosion repairs - to improve reliability. CEO Wiggins says Regional Connector is opening soon - and relies a lot on elevators [some deeper downtown stations]
May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Metro Construction Committee: now on to update on Project Labor Agreement and Construction Careers Policy programs boardagendas.metro.net/board-report/2…
Metro project construction female workforce has dropped off since work is finished/finishing on Crenshaw & RC. Metro notes that their ~3-4% women is better than local average around 2%.
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Metro Exec Mgmt Cmte meeting: on Express Lanes item - making the ride-now pay-later program (called pay-as-you-go). $25 fine goes to an $8 processing fee.
@SupJaniceHahn expresses support for charging a $4 processing fee, instead of the staff-recommended $8. Also questions CHP enforcement contract.
May 17, 2023 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Listening in on Metro Budget hearing/Budget Committee meeting - just underway. Follow online at boardagendas.metro.net
Metro staff are giving a longish budget review
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And if getting ratioed on their crappy new "Watch Your Speed" sign wasn't enough - @LADOTofficial's email newsletter doubles down blaming "each of us" for L.A.'s deadly streets (thread) @LADOTofficial No, LADOT - hundreds of deaths every year (309 deaths in 2022) is a systemic, not an individual problem.
Mar 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Metro B Line MacArthur Park Station update thread. Metro has double-fenced off the north station portal
The north part of the inside of the station is temporarily fenced off too
Mar 8, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Listening in on LA City Council Transportation Committee meeting- just underway
Now on Raman-Blumenfield-Hutt motion regarding speed tables… would do a report-back on pilot speed tables and on creating an annual speed safety program
Metro and LADOT are slowly moving toward on-bus camera enforcement ticketing drivers parking in bus lanes - looks like there will be a pilot on Wilshire/6th starting this fall. (thread)
Back in late 2021, CA approved A.B. 917 (from Asm. Richard Bloom) which allowed bus lane camera enforcement outside of San Francisco (where camera enforcement has apparently been happening for a while) cal.streetsblog.org/2021/10/08/gov…
Aug 24, 2022 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
SBLA is live tweeting this morning’s LA City Council meeting vote on #HealthyStreetsLA. 10am meeting will start shortly. Healthy Streets is item 20 on agenda. KnockLA also tweeting this meeting
Meeting underway. 10 of 15 Councilmembers present - Buscaino, Cedillo, KDL absent right now.
Nov 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Listening in on Metro board Finance Committee meeting - just underway.
Consent calendar (health benefits consulting) item approved by committee
Nov 17, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
LA County Sheriffs Dept & LA County Police Chief's Association just held a press conference on Metro policing facebook.com/LosAngelesCoun…
Villanueva criticizes Metro Public Safety Advisory Committee members - who voted against extending Metro transit policing - says "this is the definition of a woke advisory group"
Nov 17, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Metro Planning Committee mtg: now on to Highway Program item - see some SBLA coverage from yesterday la.streetsblog.org/2021/11/16/met…
Highway Program head Abdollah Ansari introducing item - he is presenting saying that Metro will take on highway projects that cities are not getting done - also working on Caltrans highways. Says Metro received a grant for a VMT (vehicle miles traveled) study
Nov 17, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Metro Planning Committee mtg: now on to monthly report on major projects - presentation here: metro.legistar1.com/metro/attachme…
West Santa Ana Branch expected to come to board for approval of a preferred alternative. Caltrans and Army Corps of Engineers cooperating agencies - due to 105 Freeway station and river crossings.
Nov 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Metro Plan Cmte meeting - now on to #OpenStreets / Slow Street grants item: $5 million to 13 new Open and Slow Streets events scheduled through December 2023
Metro staff presentation not online 😟
Nov 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Listening in on Metro board Planning and Programming Committee meeting - about to get underway
Planning Committee is now waiting on one more boardmember to have quorum.
Nov 17, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Listening in on @LAController press conference on L.A.'s (inadequate) sidewalk repair program - live right now on Facebook facebook.com/LAController/v…
Galperin criticizes the process - instead of small fix, city does full parcel. City prioritizing fixes only in front of city properties.
Nov 15, 2021 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
Listening in on Metro Eastside Gold Line Extension virtual meeting- getting underway right now
To access the meeting- follow the links at this Metro The Source post thesource.metro.net/2021/11/10/fou…
The north part of the inside of the station is temporarily fenced off too 
