In a statewide survey of rail stations, including the Bay Area's BART and MUNI, the Los Angeles Metro system averaged a C for their efforts in creating stations that encourage ridership and serve as hubs of transit-centered communities. The grading, done by UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment and nonprofit Next 10, took into account 11 criteria including walkability, the land uses of surrounding areas, and resident ridership levels at Metro's 88 rail stations, says a release for the study.
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Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this week signed into law AB 726, which would authorize Metro to utilize double articulated buses on the Metro Orange Line in the future.
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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority received an average rating in a new statewide evaluation of rail transit station, while the best grades went to two Bay Area transit agencies.
Metro received a grade of C in a new study which evaluated how transit rail stations encourage ridership and impact the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods.
The analysis was issued by Next 10, a nonprofit nonpartisan group, and prepared by the UC Berkeley School of Law's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.
A study released Monday by the nonprofit Next 10 and prepared by the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law gave the Los Angeles County Metro’s Wardlow Station an F, the worst grade for a station within the LA County Metro transit system.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail stations received an overall grade of C in a statewide study released of how transit rail stations encourage ridership and impact the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods.