LA Metro to spend $9 billion with a B in next year, adding police, homeless teams, cleaning. Enough to get back riders?
LA Metro adopted a $9 billion budget on Thursday, May 25 that increases funding for bus and rail operations, law enforcement, transit security officers, homeless outreach teams and custodians in an effort toThe 2023-2024 budget attempts to address sagging rail ridership stemming from a post-pandemic increase in remote workers, combined with recent high-profile crimes and the presence of 800 homeless individuals sheltering on Metro rail trains every night that keep riders away.
Arrests for violent crimes on rail and buses were down in March, Metro reported on Thursday. Metro’s implementation of anti-drug use enforcement is mostly what led to a 32% jump in arrests on the rail system in March. The bus system did not see an increase in violent and property crimes in March. The budget’s largest percentage increases address safety, homelessness and cleanliness. Here are some examples:
will grow 3.7%, from $169.5 million to $175.8 million. The combined cost for public safety, including law enforcement contracts, Metro’s own security force, homeless outreach teams, and its Transit Ambassadors, will be $290 million. Metro continues to pay construction costs for the L Line extension to Pomona, and the D line extension to Westwood. Money is also budgeted for improvements to the G Line in the San Fernando Valley and for pre-construction work on the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Project, a light-rail train that will run along Van Nuys Boulevard.
Fare revenues are being estimated at $146.8 million, a nearly 38% increase from last year’s budget. And federal grants are expected to increase by $766 million over last year’s budget.
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