Metro Approves Student Fareless Pilot, Plus Major Push for Low-Income Program Enrollment
| | No Comments
Students ride free on Metro starting October 1. Metro to resume collecting fares starting January 10, 2022
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Rail
Metro Scales Back Fareless Initiative to Initial Phase for Students Only
| | No Comments
This Thursday, board to vote on student fareless program, plus some improvements to low-income LIFE program. Universal fare-free transit, for now, is no longer on the table.
Feds Prep $10 Billion More for High-Speed Rail
| | No Comments
And anti-HSR legislator Anthony Rendon goes on NBC Bay Area to defend his moves to try and kill the project
Metro & Caltrans Under-Construction 71 Freeway Widening Project Hitting Cost/Schedule Overrun Snags
| | No Comments
Construction started on SR-71 segment 1 less than two months ago and is already 3-6 months behind schedule. Segment 2, budgeted to cost $40 million now faces a $61M construction funding shortfall.
In Their Own Words: Rendon and Friedman’s Changing Rationales For Kneecapping CA High-Speed Rail
| | No Comments
None of this will come as a surprise to readers following CA High-Speed Rail closely, but this perhaps serves to dispel a few of the myths and falsehoods that obscure rail realities today.
High-Speed Rail Impasse Means No Active Transportation Boost, Other Projects Also Denied Funding
| | No Comments
$500 million proposed as a one-time augmentation for Active Transportation Projects will go back to the General Fund - as will a total of $3.3 billion in other proposed allocations including for LA Olympics projects