Metro has budget challenges and its board may be hoping to persuade voters to approve another sales tax increase.
LAPD Senior Lead Officers Camille Sosa and Andrew Cullen talk to riders at the Metro Red Line Universal City station on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Condolences and deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the woman who was fatally stabbed in the throat with two small kitchen knives on a Metro train as it approached the Universal/Studio City Metro station early Monday morning.
Los Angeles County voters have been conned by Metro and its politician-leaders into agreeing to four permanent sales tax increases to fund its underutilized expansiveness. Persuaded by pretty paintings of transit-oriented development, with their watercolor trees and gleaming train platforms, L.A. residents fell for hyped-up promises to save the planet with public transportation.
She made that statement when Metro announced its “bold new transit ambassador program to help improve the customer experience.” The agency promised, “The pilot program will employ up to 300 transit ambassadors from diverse L.A. County communities who will be specially trained in customer service and rail and bus safety.”
If it wasn’t already clear when former L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl gave a lucrative Metro contract to a close friend and made sure it was renewed despite poor performance, Metro is a multi-billion-dollar cookie jar that enables politicians to take care of their friends and allows developers to gain valuable benefits such as density bonuses and regulatory streamlining of projects near current or planned transit lines.
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