A Day in the life of Jared at L.A. Metro

Hello gang, welcome to another edition of A Day in the Life. This time, the PSAC agenda. as it is now available. You can get the agenda package on the PSAC page which includes print and braille. I hope you enjoy!

This podcast is going to cover the Metro Calendar. As usual, events may be added or changed. Here is a link to the calendar. Stay safe!

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of the program. Today, we're going to talk at length about the Code of Conduct for Advisory Bodies. This is the document which was talked about during the June AAC meeting, as well as other committees once it passed through Consent at the board level. During the break, we built a specific Code of Conduct for Advisory bodies page which goes in to details on w...

The Accessibility Rider Report has been changed around, but we hope that this will be of use to people. If you see things differently while you ride, please contact me and let us discuss it. You can get a copy of this on our AAC page where you can find print and braille copies. Hope you enjoy!

Hello gang, I've been delayed releasing stuff, but we're here. These delays were caused by technical issues which are now resolved. On this edition of the program, I talk about meetings that were attended between April 2026 and June 2026. For a full copy of the report, please go to the AAC page under board reports. I hope that you enjoy this program, we've got more coming. Have a great day.

Hello gang, welcome to another podcast across "A Day in the Life." Today, we're going to cover the AAC meeting that took place for June 11, 2026 and lay the groundwork for the Code of Conduct for Advisory bodies discussion. As part of the AAC meeting, we actually discussed the code, and it was advised that the code be put in to the agenda package. PSAC is already doing this. The Jrn has created an...

Hello gang, welcome to the Accessibility Observations Report for April 2026. This podcast covers the Monthly April report, the normalization of February's numbers, as well as the Quarterly February-April 2026 numbers. Starting in May, we normalize things in to 4 categories: Fully Accessible: those rides whose internal and external are working or internal working by train Partial: Some things worki...

Gang, the San Fernando Service Council will be on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Podcasts are a little late, but that is OK. Go to the San Fernando Page to learn more and to join the meeting when it starts at 6:30 PM on June 3.

The Public Safety Advisory Committee meets on Thursday. JHere is the agenda package for those who need it. Meeting information will be made available on the PSAC web page Thursday morning. Hope to see you there!

Hello folks, welcome to another podcast here on "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared, and on this podcast, we make some web site announcements, as well as give you the calendar for June. A lot of the Calendar for June deals with one project on the East Side of town, where you can meet in person or virtually to learn about it. Do you want a link to the calendar? Here is the link to the Calendar. It'll re...

Hello gang, welcome to the podcast called "A Day in the life." Starting with this podcast, we're going to push it out to Social Media, so we'll see how things go. Welcome to all new listeners. This podcast covers some small web site stuff, as well as the agenda package for the board meeting which has a lot of contractual stuff, FIFA things, FY27 items, one item held back from April's meeting and m...

In the better late than never department, I bring you the episode dealing with the operations meeting for May 21, 2026. It has been super busy, and I go in to a little bit of detail, not too much though. The web site has the print and braille, and we step through the agenda. I do not believe anything is out of the ordinary, but for those who don't keep up with PSAC, we will have a new presenter pr...

On this edition of the podcast, we're going to take you on a ride and do a few evaluations. As you can see, its very crowded, so we couldn't do much, but we did check some things out. We eventually found staff, which was good, but it was rough finding them. One of our contacts did finally come, but it was after I got to where I needed to be, and I decided we take the airwaves off at that point. We...

Welcome to the Podcast known as "A Day in the Life" and I'm Jared. Today, on this podcast, we're going to read and discuss the AAC meeting which will occur in two days. Better late than never. Info on how to join us is available, and we read and discuss the minutes which will be approved. Here is a link to the AAC page where you can get print and braille editions of the agenda and other reports. T...

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of "A Day in the Life" and I'm Jared Rimer. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of transit in motion. While most segments were recorded in the field, one segment was recorded in the studio because it was not recorded in the field due to battery limitations. On this edition of the podcast, we're going to evaluate 5 different stations. We evalua...

Hello folks, welcome to another podcast here on "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared, and this podcast is needing to be of very high importance if you are interested in the Purple line. While we try to read the article, I've decided not to do this because there are a lot of images within this article. That'll make braille very interesting. There's lots of info in regards to history as well. Do you want...

The PSAC meeting will be this month, and its just over 2 days away. Our PSAC page has the file set including both sets of braille and a PDF. There are 5 items on the agenda, including the usual attendance and quorum requirements, approval of agendas and minutes, the update from DPS, and an update on a biannual social media update. Let's pay attention to that, as I wonder what that's going to be ab...

Welcome folks to another edition of the Day in the Life. On this podcast, we're going to cover the San Fernando Service Council meeting agenda package. If you want a copy in print or braille, please go on over to the san fernando service council page on jaredrimer.com's site so you can pick it up. The agenda is pretty typical, approval of minutes from meetings, receiving updates about service in g...

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of the podcast. I'm Jared. I know that the following was posted to the blog last month, and the world cup is a little more than a month away. This article might be of interest to subscribers, even if you missed the early bird specials that were ran early. Links within the article link to the matches, but don't transfer to the braille copy, so make sure you g...

Hello gang, welcome to another edition of "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared, and today, we're reviewing what is planned on the Metro Calendar. The Calendar is now provided to us by Event Bright, a ticketing platform who allows individuals and companies to host events whether free or paid. All Metro events on this calendar are free, and no ticket is actually required. Links are to each meeting, and th...

Welcome to another edition of the podcast called "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared, and I'm the host of the program. The following article was recently posted to the source, and I think it has some great points. But the problem is, does it match what riders actually see? I'll read this article, and give my thoughts as a rider of the system. This is where the program needs the disclaimer, which is tha...

We will start by mentioning that from now on, we're putting in a disclaimer within our program and i explain why. We'll be covering things that will need it. Hello gang, welcome to another edition of "A day in the life." I'm Jared amnd while I first decided to cover just the two board meetings as I observed them, I also decided to also do operations. All of those meetings can be found through the...

Hello gang, welcome to the podcast, I'm Jared and this is "A Day in the Life of Jared at L.A. Metro." Well! Its time that we get the board agenda out. We put it up on our web site and we've got print and braille up, and now its the podcast time. You can get the agenda from the board web page or our board page from jaredrimer.com which will include braille in EBAE and UEB. A lot of this agenda is g...

Hello folks, welcome to the podcast, this is Jared for A day in the life. We've got the accessibility report for the meetings attended in the prior month. Those meetings are: Operations: March 19 The board: March 26 The San Fernando Service Council: April 1 PSAC: April 9 The intro is not going to be our typical intro, but its a good one, and our control center says that all listeners will enjoy it...

Hello gang, Welcome to another edition of the podcast "A Day in the Life of Jared," I'm Jared. This time, we're going to cover a very big article which we need to step through. The article is titled Ababil of Minab claims cyberattack on LACMTA, exposing risks to rail control systems and critical transit infrastructure. This article comes to us from a new publication that was sent to me through Goo...