Metro - File #: 2023-0458

• File #: 2023-0458
• Type: Contract
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/7/2023
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 10/19/2023
• Final action: 10/26/2023
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING implementation of a Bus Lane Enforcement Pilot Program on NextGen Tier One Network in partnership with the City of Los Angeles; B. APPROVING the Life of Project (LOP) capital budget of $11,000,000 for the Bus Lane Improvement Pilot Project; C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a 63-month firm fixed unit price Contract No. OP48185000 to Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of equipment and implementation of a Bus Lane Enforcement System on NextGen Tier One Network in the City of Los Angeles in an amount not-to-exceed $7,079,570 for the 39-month base term, and $1,710,000 for the first one-year option and $1,710,000 for the second one-year option, for a total not-to-exceed Contract Value of $10,499,570, effective December 1, 2023, subject to resolution of properly submitted protest(s), if any; and D. AUTHORIZING the CEO to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Los Angeles on a project partnership of the Bus ...
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Accuracy, Artificial intelligence, Budgeting, Bus rapid transit, Bus traffic, Capital Project, Capital Project Funds, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Contracts, Equity Focus Communities, Maintenance, Memorandum Of Understanding, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Rail A Line, NextGen Bus Study, North San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, Outreach, Parking violations, Partnerships, Pasadena, Pilot studies, Procurement, Program, Project, Purchasing, Safety, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, Surveys, Traffic congestion, Transit buses, Travel time, Turning lanes, Unsolicited Proposal Policy, Westside Cities subregion, Zoning

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/26/2023	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
OPERATIONS, SAFETY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 19, 2023

Subject
SUBJECT: BUS LANE ENFORCEMENT PILOT PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING implementation of a Bus Lane Enforcement Pilot Program on NextGen Tier One Network in partnership with the City of Los Angeles;

B. APPROVING the Life of Project (LOP) capital budget of $11,000,000 for the Bus Lane Improvement Pilot Project;

C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a 63-month firm fixed unit price Contract No. OP48185000 to Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of equipment and implementation of a Bus Lane Enforcement System on NextGen Tier One Network in the City of Los Angeles in an amount not-to-exceed $7,079,570 for the 39-month base term, and $1,710,000 for the first one-year option and $1,710,000 for the second one-year option, for a total not-to-exceed Contract Value of $10,499,570, effective December 1, 2023, subject to resolution of properly submitted protest(s), if any; and

D. AUTHORIZING the CEO to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Los Angeles on a project partnership of the Bus Lane Enforcement System Pilot Program.

Issue
ISSUE

As part of the NextGen Bus Speed Engineering Working Group, the City of Los Angeles and Metro partnered to create the Transit Speed & Reliability Program, which has delivered over 40 miles of Bus Priority Lanes throughout the City of Los Angeles that were designed to increase the transit speed and reliability of Metro's bus service to NextGen Tier 1 lines, or the busiest corridors in the system. These Bus Priority Lanes are often misused by other vehicles, aside from buses, and this has negatively impacted the effectiveness of the joint investment between Metro and the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). Unauthorized vehicles dwelling in Bus Priority Lanes for deliveries and passenger loading, ...