Metro - File #: 2021-0103

• File #: 2021-0103
• Type: Project
• Status: Consent Calendar
• File created: 3/3/2021
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 5/27/2021
• Final action: 5/27/2021
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING the Proposed Project with recommended refinements for the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Project; and B. APPROVING the Project's Title VI Service Equity Analysis in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Alignment, Alternatives Analysis study approved by the Board, Arroyo Verdugo subregion, Began Draft Environmental Impact Statement / Report, Bicycle lanes, Bicycling, Brt Connector Red/Orange Line To Gold Line (Project), Budgeting, Burbank, Burbank-Glendale-Los Angeles Corridor, Bus rapid transit, Bus traffic, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Curbs, Eagle Rock, Environmental Impact Report, General purpose lanes, Glendale, Interchanges, Intersections, Landscaping, Maps, Median lanes, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Metrolink, Metrolink Antelope Valley Line, Metrolink Ventura County Line, Minorities, North Hollywood, North Hollywood Station, North San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, Outreach, Pasadena, Pedestrians, Plan, Project, Race, Safety, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, San Gabriel, South Bay Cities subregion, SR-134, Strategic planning, Title VI Requirements, Transit buses, Travel time, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector
• Related files: 2021-0440

Date	Action By	Action	Result
5/27/2021	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
5/19/2021	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
MAY 19, 2021

Subject
SUBJECT: NORTH HOLLYWOOD TO PASADENA BUS RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDOR PROJECT

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING the Proposed Project with recommended refinements for the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Project; and

B. APPROVING the Project's Title VI Service Equity Analysis in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Issue
ISSUE

The North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor Project (Project) proposes to connect the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys through one of the region's largest commuter sheds that currently lacks a premium transit service. Transit currently accounts for only 2% of the 700,000 daily trips entering the corridor. Despite the presence of Metro Rail connections at both ends of the corridor, only a third of all trips currently travel the entire corridor from one end to the other.
Metro is the lead agency for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the North Hollywood to Pasadena BRT Corridor Project. Metro, in coordination with the cities of Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena, completed an environmental analysis for the Draft EIR in October 2020. Following the Public Review period for the Draft EIR, staff worked with stakeholders on proposed refinements to the Project in key locations.
In Burbank, refinements include a minor reroute of service, relocating a previously proposed station on West Olive Avenue, and recommending an optional station as part of the Proposed Project. In Glendale, an optional station is recommended as part of the Proposed Project and bike lane improvements on Glenoaks Boulevard, currently being studied by the City, will be further coordinated and integrated with the Project. In Eagle Rock, the primary change for the Proposed Project is with the bus lane configuratio...