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The Transit Advocate How to join SO.CA.TA: Yearly dues are $30.00 cates. In all other cases, permission must be ($12.00 low income). Dues are prorated on a secured from the copyright holder. quarterly basis. Disclaimer: The Southern California Transit THE TRANSIT ADVOCATE Submission of materials: ALL materials for the Advocates is not affiliated with any governmental TRANSIT ADVOCATE newsletter go to Andrew agency or transportation provider. Names and Newsletter of the Southern California Transit Advocates Novak at P.O. Box 2383, Downey California 90242 logos of agencies appear for information and or to [email protected]. Please enclose a self reference purposes only. May 2010 Vol. 18, No. 5 ISSN 1525-2892 addressed stamped envelope for returns. SO.CA.TA officers, 2010 Newsletter deadlines are the Fridays a week President: Lionel Jones before SO.CA.TA meetings, at 6:00 PM Pacific Vice President: Charles Hobbs time, unless otherwise announced. Recording Secretary: Kymberleigh Richards Executive Secretary: Dana Gabbard Opinions: Unless clearly marked as "Editorial" or Treasurer: Hank Fung "Position Paper", all written material within, Directors at Large: Ken Ruben including all inserted flyers and postcards, are the J.K. Drummond expressed opinions of the authors and not Nate Zablen necessarily that of the Southern California Transit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Advocates. Newsletter Editor: Andrew Novak Newsletter Prod. Mgr: Dana Gabbard Copyright: © 2010 Southern California Transit Webmaster: Charles Hobbs Advocates. Permission is freely granted to repro- th th duce/reprint ORIGINAL articles from the Transit NEXT SO.CA.TA MEETINGS : May 15 and June 12 at Angelus Plaza, 4th Floor, 255 S. Hill, Los Angeles Advocate, provided credit is given to both the au- thor and the Southern California Transit Advo- May 2010 — Issue 210 Southern California Transit Advocates 3010 Wilshire #362 Los Angeles, CA 90010 44¢ First 213-388-2364 Class http://www.socata.net Postage [email protected] FIRST CLASS MAIL Inside This Issue: Metrolink cab car 638 is one of the agency’s new • Bulletin Board (pg. 2) Hyundai-Rotem cars currently being • Members in Action (pg.2) delivered. — Photo courtesy of Metrolink • Transit Updates (pg. 3) • DAT Report Part 4 (pg. 4) • Metro Board Report (pg. 5) • Public/Legislative Affairs (pg. 6) • Metrolink’s New Cars (pg. 9) Bulletin Board / Members in Action Access Services Free Fare Bulletin Board: tin, Ken Ruben, Jerard Wright, Bart Reed, Regarding the Access Services' Free Fare Program which has been mentioned in the newslet- Saturday, June 12 from 10:00 am to 2:00 Nate Zablen and Dana Gabbard. ter from time to time, Andre Colaiace of ASI informs us: pm the City of Torrance is holdings its annual Alek Friedman attended the April 19 Subway The Free Fare program has been an undisputed success in moderating paratransit cost in- City Yard Open House. This is at 20500 Mad- extension meeting in Beverly Hills and was creases in Los Angeles County. I recently devised an interesting metric for measuring para- rona Ave. at Spencer St. Event is free and quoted in the Streetsblog Los Angeles article transit efficiency called “cost per eligible rider” which I think gives a truer picture of para- among the displays is the first public show- "Will the Metro Board Overload '30 in 10' with transit efficiency than the standard cost per trip/cost per passenger trip measurement that is ing of a historic Torrance bus which the city Highway Projects". commonly used (although Access is quite competitive using that metric also.) For example, is acquiring from member Paul Castillo with Chicago has a higher budget than Access but significantly fewer eligible riders so Access’ the intention to restore it. http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/04/20/will-the success in encouraging/training people to use the fixed-route wouldn’t be reflected in a sim- -metro-board-overload-30-in-10-with- The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society ple cost per trip metric. highway-projects/#more-43351 has an ever-growing online archive of Pacific The numbers for the other agencies were from a paratransit peer report that is compiled by Electric and Los Angeles Railway imagery, Bart Reed and Kymberleigh Richards New York METRO. I got the Boston budget number from a recently published Boston Globe information, artifacts, ephemera and more: were quoted in the Daily News article article on their paratransit system ("Cost of rides for disabled soars at T") http://peryhs.org/ "Metrolink fares going up 6 percent" Angel Flight Foundation is now taking dona- http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/04/20/will-the tions via a link to its website; -metro-board-overload-30-in-10-with- http://angelsflight.org/ highway-projects/#more-43351 Amtrak California how has an online store; http://store.amtrakcalifornia.com/ We encourage members to regularly check The 2009-2010 Transit Guide the calendar on our website. We have up- is now available! graded the calendar and you can get an e- For anyone who uses public transportation in mail reminder 3 days before any listed event southern California, the Transit Guide is a (the feature is included in the pop-up box must have. The guide has a complete list of when you click on an event listing). all the bus and rail transit from Santa Barbra http://socata.net/calendar.htm to San Diego. Members in Action: You can purchase the Transit Guide on our Andy Novak's article on Pacific Railroad Soci- web site at: ety Big Dome to the Bay Excursion he helped http://socata.net/guide.html organize appeared in March 2010 Wheel You can also order the 2009-10 Transit Guide Clicks, newsletter of the PRS. Novak also had several photos of Las Vegas buses appear in by sending a check or money order for Are you buried in paper? $15.00 to: the Feb.-Mar. issue of The Paddle, newsletter of the Pacific Bus Museum. Are you interested in getting your SOCATA newsletter in PDF? Southern California Transit Advocates Attendees of the April 17th Joint Rail Passen- 3010 Wilshire Blvd. #362 We are now offering the SOCATA newsletter in PDF format to our members. Los Angeles, CA 90010 ger Association of California/National Asso- The PDF newsletters will be available a week before the meeting and will be in full color. ciation of Railroad Passenger Regional Annual Meeting and Conference included Jerry Mar- If you would like to get the PDF newsletter instead of the printed version email us at: Get yours today! [email protected] Page 2 The TRANSIT Advocate www.socata.net Page 11 Day After Thanksgiving Trip Continued Transit Updates At 4:22 pm we reached the Sylmar/San Fer- we spotted tract houses before entering a El Monte Station $408,200 to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Tran- nando station and large crowds of people were short tunnel. Now the view was blocked by In April 2010 Metro began construction on a sit Authority (PVPTA) to continue public tran- spotted boarding the train. Then we plunged embankments along the right of way as the temporary bus terminal on the eastern side sit services for the Fiscal Year 2010-2011. into the tunnel and into the Santa Clarita sun set. It was now dark and basically the only of El Monte Station. The construction closed The funds come from the Fourth Supervi- Valley. things that could be seen through the windows the southeast parking lot, removing approxi- sorial District's allocation of Proposition A Lo- were the occasional pools of light in the dis- Some of us began discussing our impressions mately 450 parking spaces. A new parking lot cal Return Transit Program funds. tance and indistinct shapes. Basically we were of the Comet Car. One comment made was it has opened on the site of the former Chevro- taking a long long ride to a far flung enclave Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) was "a little noisier" and also that it seemed to let dealership next to the freeway on the Effective May 9th, RTA has discontinued ser- without sightseeing as a distraction. west side of Santa Anita Avenue. The new sway somewhat. I know my first thought vice on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Inde- upon boarding was the arrangement of seats We began the return trip at 5:52 pm, reaching temporary bus terminal is expected to be pendence Day and Labor Day due to low rid- resembled a school bus - but the seats them- Palmdale at 6 pm and our conductor came completed in late summer. ership. Along with the discontinuation of ser- selves got high marks for comfort. through to check our tickets and another vice on the above holidays, select trips will Metrolink train whizzed by in the opposite di- After emerging from the tunnel we were in a be eliminated on the following routes, 10, 11, rection. By 6:53 pm we had reached Via Prin- very rural area, reaching the Newhall station 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 32, cesa and our progress continued apace: Santa (named for politico Jan Heidt) at 4:27 pm and and 42. Service improvements will be made Clarita (6:59 pm), Newhall (7:08 pm). An- appropriately the street adjacent to it is named to the following routes, 1, 7, 8, 22, 50, 79, other Metrolink train whizzed by in the oppo- Railroad Ave. We continued past the Newhall 206, and 208. site direction. Then Sylmar (7:21 pm), Sun business district (which includes a number of Valley (7:27 pm)[at which Kymbereligh de- Orange County Rail Projects eateries plus more than a few auto body repair boarded to make a quick walk to the nearby Rail projects throughout Orange County re- shops).
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