Public Hearing Wednesday for Metro Budget

Time to dust off your soap box and speak out about Metro's $3.1 billion proposed budget at a public hearing Wednesday.

It all happens at 2:30 p.m. in the board room of Metro headquarters, 1 Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles. The building sits next to Union Station.

The transit agency earlier this month unveiled its spending plan that begins July 1 and is $85 million higher than its current budget. The board is expected to vote on the issue at its monthly meeting June 28.

Under the proposal, Metro wants to spend $1.39 billion, about 45 percent of its budget, on bus operations. Rails could receive $742 million, about 25 percent of the budget. Road construction could get $592 million.

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