Timetable Coming for MTA Overhaul
A timetable for the first major overhaul in two decades of the San Fernando Valley’s grid bus system will be developed by November, officials said Wednesday.
Franklin E. White, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said his agency is already at work on a plan for implementing several changes outlined in a sweeping restructuring study unveiled last June.
The study recommended scrapping the traditional grid system of bus routes in favor of a hub-and-spoke layout that would improve service to employment centers and other transit stops.
White said MTA staff would present a timetable for the innovations to the agency’s board of directors in November.
The restructuring plan recommended that the MTA abandon bus lines confined only to north-south and east-west travel and replace them with routes serving major commercial and retail destinations and hubs such as Metrolink stations and future Metro Rail stops.
Synchronized schedules would allow for quicker transfers, and high-frequency shuttles would enable residents to travel with greater ease within communities.
If implemented, the changes would be the first to hit the Valley bus system in 20 years, when the grid system was adopted. The proposals were drafted by a task force of city and county agencies.
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