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We love when our readers comment on our posts. Traffic and public transportation seem to light a fire within all of us. We are pretty sure LADOT and Metro are not scouring the LAist archives for your input. In addition to all your comments about the subject (we love them, we really do), we recommend showing up to a public meeting for input:
Metro’s five community-based transit service sector governance councils will hold their regular monthly public meetings in January to discuss various transportation issues in their service sectors.
Residents within the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles, the South Bay and the Westside/Central area interested in helping to improve Metro Bus service in their communities are encouraged to attend the monthly meetings. Governance councils work closely with Metro’s community-based service sectors in studying and planning service improvements and efficiencies of Metro Bus operations in their respective service sectors.
Come on, you know you wanna. The list of meetings are after the jump...
Metro San Gabriel Valley Service Sector
Monday, Jan 8, 2007 @ 5 p.m.
San Gariel Valley Sector Office
3369 Santa Anita Ave., El Monte
Metro San Fernando Valley Service Sector
Wednesday, Jan 10, 2007 @ 6:30 p.m.
Marvin Braude Constituent Service Center
6262 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys
Photo by MetroRiderLA's Fred Camino via Flickr
Metro Westside/Central Service Sector
Wednesday, Jan 10, 2007 @ 5 p.m.
La Cienega Tennis Center, Sunset Room
325 S. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills
Metro Gateway Service Sector
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007 @ 2 p.m.
The Gas Company
9240 Firestone Blvd., Downey
Metro South Bay Service Sector
Friday, Jan 12, 2007 @ 9:30 a.m.
Carson Community Center, Room 206
801 E. Carson, Carson
Photo by MetroRiderLA's Fred Camino via Flickr
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dude, that's johnny pemberton in the photo
See. Even comedians use public transit!
Well, this is the year of the METRO slash and burn campaign to kill off a lot of bus service. For example, Metro proposes to discontinue the Lassen / Paxton Line 168. Also getting slashed is 154 Oxnard, former 152 Universal City via City of Burbank to Burbank Metrolink. Line 183 in Burbank and Glendale.
There is all sorts of service up to be killed. Have you even tried to get to/from the Orange Line on a north / south bus in the West S.F. Valley? It's bad, but these proposals are even worse.
omg johnny pemberton is sooooo hawwwwwwwwwwwwt.
Bart, perhaps it was a mistake for us to celebrate the end of the consent decree?
The Consent Decree, if in effect, would not have stopped any of these service cuts from taking place. Metro could still cut the service, but the Bus Riders Union would have had to go to the special master to see if the service has to be restarted. It did not ban service cuts per se.
The nut of Kymberleigh Richards' e-mail about the service cuts was to rebalance service from unproductive lines to productive ones. For instance, Line 183 has been duplicated for years by a Glendale Beeline bus, and Line 168 is the Valley's least productive service.
I think that cutting services to peak-hours only is ludicrous. Either eliminate the service or run at least 60 minute service weekdays. There's no premium in running an ordinary local service just for rush hours.