Metro Friday officially opened 5.7 lane miles of bus priority lanes on La Brea Avenue, spanning across the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.
Metro said the bus lanes will bring “quicker, more reliable bus service through one of the most congested corridors.” Representatives from the city and county of Los Angeles, as well as L.A.’s Department of Transportation joined Metro for Friday’s celebration.
“Angelenos deserve a Metro system that can get them where they need to go reliably, quickly and safely,” Stephanie Wiggins, CEO of Metro, said in a statement. “Infrastructure improvements like the La Brea bus priority lanes help us make progress towards those goals and help us deliver for our riders who rely on the Metro system.”
Wiggins expressed her gratitude to the Department of Transportation, and all partners, for working to make the La Brea bus priority lane a reality.
@wehovillenews #WeHo Mayor Sepi Shyne and Councilmember Chelsea Byers mark the opening of new #LAMetro bus lanes on #LaBrea ♬ original sound – WEHOville
The first phase of the La Brea Bus Priority Lanes Project, from Sunset Boulevard to Olympic Boulevard, is expected to improve bus speeds by 15% or more, increase service frequency and reliability, as well as transporting riders without widening streets or adding more infrastructure, according to Metro.
This project will benefit more than 8,900 daily riders who ride Metro Bus Line 212.
“The La Brea bus priority lanes will provide improved access to job- rich centers along the Santa Monica business corridor, bringing people into Hollywood and West Hollywood quicker and with more ease,” L.A. County Supervisor and Metro board member Lindsey Horvath said in a statement.
“With the future opening of the D (Purple) Line, these priority lanes will drastically improve service and increase access for our residents who rely on safe, efficient transportation to move throughout the region,” she added.
Bus priority lanes will give buses priority access during weekday peak hours, between 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Buses will run every ten minutes during bus lane hours.
Additionally, West Hollywood’s Cityline shuttle service will use the lanes to access the Hollywood/Highland B (Red) Line Station in Hollywood.
The second phase of bus priority lanes on La Brea Avenue, which are still in the planning and study stage, will eventually add 5.2 lane miles from Olympic Boulevard in Mid-Wilshire to Coliseum Street in South L.A. — connecting to the Expo/La Brea E (Expo) Line Station.
Wiggins said bus priority lanes are a “key part” of Metro’s NextGen Bus Network strategy, which is intended to make public transit better and more reliable for millions of Angelenos who ride Metro.
“The lanes will save thousands of Metro bus riders time and help make our buses more reliable on the La Brea corridor,” Wiggins said in a statement.
Metro opened up almost 40 miles of bus priority lanes across the city of Los Angeles, and the agency plans to open more than 100 miles of these lanes in the coming months and years.
@wehovillenews #WeHo Mayor Sepi Shyne and Councilmember Chelsea Byers mark the opening of new #LAMetro bus lanes on #LaBrea ♬ original sound – WEHOville
They’re patting themselves on their backs over a bus lane while crime is rampant, prices and taxes sky high, homeless drug addicts and the mentally ill wonder the streets and they’re taking the time for a photo opp to congratulate themselves over a bus lane. Such political low lifes. Every single one of them. Shame.
Can’t wait for the influx of Rodeo Drive smash and grabs and Rolex robberies on SMB. The Metro Line is a disaster for West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Shana Tova, especially for Chelsea and Sepi. FO.
In 1984 West Hollywood separated its self from Los Angeles just to become its own independent city…And Now West Hollywood will become like Skidrow,with the “Metro High Speed Criminal/Homeless Transit System”
Is that Mayor Bass?
Is it a coincidence that the expansion of Metro coincides with the influx of illegals and vagrants of all description so they may infest far reaching communities holding legitimate residents hostage or in some cases murdering them? Another unanticipated issue for our leaders? Actually there should be a way to individually task Supervisor Horvath to confront and solve this problem.
You just named a brand new conspiracy!
Would this not eliminate the plan option for Metro Subway along La Brea in favir if San Vicente?
Nice to see Sepi get there for the photo op. Meanwhile, her schedule is apparently too full to timely meet with struggling small business owners here in West Hollywood.
SS is copying and pasting Horvath’s previous agenda and methodology. No room for originally on behalf of the residents/business owners.
This is a wonderful idea. Not. They’re going to infringe on the comfort and lifestyle of taxpaying, hard-working people so they can have a lane for a Metro bus filled with vagrants who they let on free with their pit bulls and their garbage bags. And yes, I’ve seen them do this a million times. I pay my fare and sit there and watch the drivers let on one vagrant after the other for free. Yeah, this sounds like another stellar plan.
Who takes the bus? We’ll be asking the same question 40 years from now about the Metro train.
Now the homeless and the desperate poor, can beat the traffic!
Its such a shame Metro has become degraded to the point no one with the means wants to use it