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PACOIMA : MTA to Discuss Fare Hikes, Cuts in Service

By HENRY CHU
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has scheduled a community meeting in Pacoima on Saturday to discuss possible reductions in bus service and increases in fares to help close a severe budget shortfall.

The meeting is one of eight community gatherings sponsored by the agency to inform residents of cost-cutting measures being studied. MTA officials have said that some bus fare and service changes will be unavoidable in the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1, if the agency is to eliminate a capital and operating deficit of nearly $300 million.

Transit planners are considering raising the basic fare from $1.10 to $1.50, scaling back weekend and holiday service, and cutting bus lines that duplicate rail routes.

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Residents will be able to comment and ask questions at Saturday’s meeting, but formal public input will be received only at a public hearing April 23 at the county Hall of Administration in Downtown Los Angeles.

The Pacoima meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the Boys & Girls Club of the San Fernando Valley, 11251 Glenoaks Blvd.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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