By City News Service
May 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Three new COVID-19 vaccination sites are scheduled to open next week at Metro transit stations located in areas hard hit by the virus, Metro announced.
Thursday s announcement comes as the county is scaling down its large-scale vaccination sites while also stepping up outreach efforts in communities where inoculations have lagged.
The new sites are scheduled to open Tuesday at the C Line s (Green) Crenshaw/105 Station in Hawthorne; the Harbor Gateway Transit Center in Gardena; and the A Line s (Blue) Del Amo Station in Los Angeles, Metro said.
They will be the first vaccination sites to be installed on the Metro public transit system.
As I explained in my earlier post, NextGen implementation will be
during three consecutive service adjustments (December 2020, June 2021, and December 2021). The service adjustment, or “shake-up,” is Metro’s semi-annual process by which operators bid on driving slots awarded based on seniority per the SMART (the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers) union collective bargaining agreement with the agency; service changes are generally implemented as part of the shake-up.
The current service adjustment is deliberately less ambitious than the next two rounds will be in order to ease the system into the process, according to Metro staff. But it is also reflective of the short interval between October board approval of the planned service changes and now. [Find the detailed board report on the changes here; find the staff presentation on them here.]