Metro - File #: 2022-0740

• File #: 2022-0740
• Type: Fare / Tariff / Service Change
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/18/2022
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 12/1/2022
• Final action: 12/1/2022
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING comments from the public hearing conducted by the Board of Directors on Monday, November 14, 2022 (Attachment A & A1); B. ADOPTING Option 1 - a modified fare restructuring plan including fare capping, new fare pricing, and fare policy changes (Attachment B) (REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE BOARD); C. APPROVING the results of the fare equity analysis for the modified fare restructuring plan (Attachment C); D. ADOPTING resolution in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) finding that the purpose of the modified fare restructuring plan is to pay operating expenses (Attachment D); E. APPROVING the finding that the proposed fare restructuring plan is statutorily exempt from CEQA under Sections 21080(b)(8); F. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to file a CEQA Notice of Exemption (NOE) for the fare restructuring plan with the Los Angeles County Clerk; and G. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to extend the sale of ...
• Indexes: Board approved a Motion, Budget, Budgeting, California Environmental Quality Act, Cleaning, Eric Garcetti, Fare / Tariff / Service Change, Fare Structure, Fare Zone, GoPass, Hilda Solis, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE), Metro Transit Ambassadors, Motion / Motion Response, Outreach, Partnerships, Plan, Policy, Program, Promotion, Public Hearing, Research, Research management, Resolution, Ridership, Shelia Kuehl, Strategic planning, Students, Subsidies, Surveys, Testing, Title VI Requirements, Transfer on 2nd Boarding, Transfers, Transit buses, Transit System, Travel patterns
• Related files: 2023-0002

Date	Action By	Action	Result
12/1/2022	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
DECEMBER 1, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: FARE CAPPING & FARE CHANGE

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING AND FILING comments from the public hearing conducted by the Board of Directors on Monday, November 14, 2022 (Attachment A & A1);

B. ADOPTING Option 1 - a modified fare restructuring plan including fare capping, new fare pricing, and fare policy changes (Attachment B) (REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE BOARD);

C. APPROVING the results of the fare equity analysis for the modified fare restructuring plan (Attachment C);

D. ADOPTING resolution in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) finding that the purpose of the modified fare restructuring plan is to pay operating expenses (Attachment D);

E. APPROVING the finding that the proposed fare restructuring plan is statutorily exempt from CEQA under Sections 21080(b)(8);

F. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to file a CEQA Notice of Exemption (NOE) for the fare restructuring plan with the Los Angeles County Clerk; and

G. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to extend the sale of promotional passes at 50% of the cost of full price passes through June 30, 2023, as a continuation of Motion 36: Emergency Relief (Attachment E), or until fare capping is launched, whichever is earlier.

Issue
ISSUE

In May 2020, the Metro Board of Directors approved Motion 36, "Emergency Relief" by Directors Garcetti, Solis, Hahn, Kuehl, and Butts (Attachment A). The motion instructed staff to initiate promotional pricing at 50% off full-price day passes, 7-day passes, and 30-day passes when fare collection resumed and to report back with recommendations for permanent reductions to the cost of full-price passes. Motion 36 also directed staff to report back with an implementation plan for a fare capping/best fare system that allows riders to take advantage of passes that promote affordability, with break-ev...