By City News Service
Mar 3, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A series of virtual meetings on how the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority can eliminate fares on its buses and trains will begin today.
The authority has developed a pilot program to give free rides to low-income riders starting in January and to kindergarteners through 12th graders in August 2022.
The MTA s Fareless System Initiative study has scheduled five local service-council meetings in March to gather public feedback on that program.
The agency s service councils advise on planning and implementation of Metro services in five geographic regions, but the presentation will be the same at each meeting and members of the public can attend and ask questions regardless of where they live, officials said.
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At the annual meeting of Southern California Transit Advocates last month, one of the participants pointed out that no further public hearings will be held on L.A. Metro’s service restructuring program NextGen, as the entire slate of service changes had been approved by the Metro Board in October 2020. As NextGen implementation rolls out over three consecutive service adjustments (December 2020, June 2021, and December 2021), the role of advocates will be to monitor and evaluate. For instance, they will need to keep an eye on the NextGen Bus Speed Engineering Working Group, for which a status report was released at this month’s Metro Board Operations Committee meeting.