Metro - File #: 2024-1126

• File #: 2024-1126
• Type: Budget
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/12/2024
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 2/20/2025
• Final action: 2/27/2025
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to: A. ESTABLISH a Life-of-Project (LOP) budget for an amount not-to-exceed $15.3 million for the implementation of taller faregates at 11 additional stations to provide safety, and security, and enhance access control; B. AMEND the FY25 budget to add three (3) Non-Contract Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions to manage the gating analyses and implementation of taller gates across the 11 additional stations and expansion of taller gates across the Metro Rail system and new stations from new rail lines and transition into operations and maintenance; and C. AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer, or their designee, to negotiate and execute all necessary agreements, contracts, and contract modifications associated with the increased LOP budget.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Barriers (Roads), Budget, Budgeting, Bus rapid transit, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Fare Evasion, LAX/Metro Transit Center Station, Locking, Los Angeles International Airport, Maintenance practices, Metro Rail K Line, Motion / Motion Response, Operations and Maintenance, Procurement, Project, Retrofitting, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Strategic planning, Structural design, Testing, Transit centers, Weapons
• Related files: 2025-0224

Date	Action By	Action	Result
2/27/2025	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body

OPERATIONS, SAFETY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 20, 2025


Subject
SUBJECT: FAREGATE RETROFIT (PHASE 2) - UPGRADE EXISTING GATED STATIONS WITH TALLER GATES

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to:

A. ESTABLISH a Life-of-Project (LOP) budget for an amount not-to-exceed $15.3 million for the implementation of taller faregates at 11 additional stations to provide safety, and security, and enhance access control;

B. AMEND the FY25 budget to add three (3) Non-Contract Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions to manage the gating analyses and implementation of taller gates across the 11 additional stations and expansion of taller gates across the Metro Rail system and new stations from new rail lines and transition into operations and maintenance; and

C. AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer, or their designee, to negotiate and execute all necessary agreements, contracts, and contract modifications associated with the increased LOP budget.

Issue
ISSUE

At the July 2024 meeting, the Board approved several strategies to improve safety for Metro riders and employees (2024-0437). One key strategy was to replace some existing faregates with taller, robust structural and modernized designs that better meet today's mobility needs. The current turnstile and leaf-style faregates are highly susceptible to fare evasion, whereas the taller fare gates directly improve passenger safety and security.

Taller faregates have features such as precise motion sensors that can accurately detect fare evasion behaviors, such as "tailgating," crawling under, climbing over, as well as electromechanical locks to prevent forced entries, and paddle-style doors that improve accessibility for customers with bicycles, luggage, or other items. The taller faregates also have large, color-coded displays to alert authorized personnel of fare evasion attempts. These gates offer potential integratio...