File #: 2022-0169   
Type: Informational Report Status: Filed
File created: 3/16/2022 In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
On agenda: 4/21/2022 Final action: 4/28/2022
Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to review the Crenshaw/LAX Operating Plan, including conduct necessary public outreach and report back to Board with findings and a recommendation to maintain or change the Operating Plan.
Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
Indexes: Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station Project, Alignment, Ara Najarian, Aviation/LAX Station, Budgeting, C Line (Green) Extension to Torrance, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Crenshaw District, Crenshaw Northern Extension, Crenshaw Station, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Culver City, Division 16, Environmental Impact Report, Expo/Crenshaw Station, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Hilda Solis, I-105, Informational Report, Inglewood, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Light rail transit, Los Angeles International Airport, Measure M, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail K Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Motion / Motion Response, NextGen Bus Study, Norwalk, Norwalk El Segundo Transit Project, Norwalk Station, Outreach, Plan, Project, Redondo Beach, Revenue Service, Ridership, South Bay Cities subregion, South Bay Service Sector, Terminal 27, Torrance, Torrance Transit Park and Ride Regional Terminal, Transfers, Transit buses, Travel patterns, Travel time, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Westchester, Westchester/Veterans Station, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Figures 1 through 6, 2. Presentation
Related files: 2018-0730
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
APRIL 21, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: CRENSHAW/LAX OPERATING PLAN UPDATE

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to review the Crenshaw/LAX Operating Plan, including conduct necessary public outreach and report back to Board with findings and a recommendation to maintain or change the Operating Plan.

Issue
ISSUE

In December 2018, the Metro Board adopted Motion 2018-0730 for an initial one-year pilot operating plan for the Crenshaw/LAX new light rail link. Since approving this pilot plan, significant circumstances have changed that make it timely for review. These include sequencing of the Airport Metro Connector station construction and operational resource requirements as Metro responds to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, NextGen Bus Plan implementation, as well as planning for future rail expansion. These factors are discussed further below.

Background
BACKGROUND

Crenshaw/LAX Rail Project:
The Crenshaw/LAX Rail (CLAX) Project is an 8.5-mile extension of C Line (Green) light rail from Aviation/Imperial to the Exposition Line at Exposition/Crenshaw (Figure 1), including eight new stations. An associated project, the new Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station, will add a ninth station to provide a direct connector to the new LAX airport people mover system.

A pilot operating plan was approved for the new Crenshaw/LAX line as outlined below in Board Motion 2018-0730:

APPROVED CRENSHAW/LAX- GREEN LINE OPERATING PLAN (NOV 2018)
APPROVED Motion by Hahn, Butts, Solis, Najarian, Fasana & Garcia that the Board instruct the CEO to

A. implement Alternative C-3 for the Crenshaw/LAX -Green Line Operating Plan as a 1-year pilot plan in anticipation of the opening of the LAX Automated People Mover (APM) and 96th Street Station, maintaining the existing headways on the C (Green) Line;
B. report back to the Metro Board one (1) ...

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