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

We take a gander around the landscape of meetings and podcasts in this hour plus podcast with our very own Preston Gaylor. If you don't remember who he is, he assists me with dropbox and the meeting organization that needs to take place. Thanks for listening, make it a great day!

Hello gang, Welcome to another edition of the podcast. I'm Jared Rimer, and on this edition of the podcast, we're going to talk a little bit about security. While the goal of this podcast is not necessarily security related, there are times that this crosses and this is a great example. L.A. Metro is not immune to cyberattacks. This is when someone who is not authorized gains access to a network....

Welcome to the podcast. The operations meeting will be held on April 16, 2026 and this podcast will be covering this in detail. If you want a new braille copy as we found an issue with braille, let me know by Wednesday so I can regenerate it. Let me know if you need EBAE or UEB. You may watch the meeting through the board page when it starts. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll see you soon!

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of the podcast known as "A Day in the Life Of Jared at L.A. Metro." I'm Jared. On this episode of the podcast, we cover the board meeting which will be held on April 15, 2026. You're asking, "There's no board meeting, Jared. What do you mean the board meeting?" In recent times, we've had special board meetings, and they've delbt with the games, specificly, i...

Hello gang, welcome to another edition of the podcast known as "A Day in the Life of Jared." I'm of course, Jared, your host of the program. I hope that everyone here is doing well and that you'll enjoy the program this time. On this program, we're traveling to 7th Street, Metro Center where we were advised that there were braille signs. While these notes will not give you any answers, we do find...

On this podcast, we're going to talk about an article that was released shortly after the January board meeting where the D line was announced to be opening in May. We talked about it during the podcast of the board back then, but recently, I went and found the article and while it wasn't within the past few days in time, I did find one and I posted it to the list in late March. Whether it was Jan...

In January, I believe, an operator who was having a hard time, got an award at Metro for his work as a bus operator. This is the first award that was given to an employee who has been working only for a year and 3 months at that time. An article about this recently hit the Source, Metro's English blog, and we found it. On this edition of the podcast, we're going to read the article and I'll talk a...

Welcome to another edition of "A Day in the Life of Jared." I'm Jared. On this edition of the program, we're going to talk about the Public Safety Advisory Comittee and its agenda package for this week's meeting. I realized after i created braille that the braille does not mention the time. The time of the meeting will be at 6 PM. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. You may get print copi...

Welcome to another episode of "A Day in the Life" here at L.A. Metro. I'm Jared Rimer, and this time, we're listing all of the members of the 2026-2027 campaign. Each year, PSAC has an election, and members can be on for additional years if they choose. After so long, the member terms out, and they must wait one year to reapply. Several have reached this limit, but we have new members to take thei...

Welcome to the program of "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared and on this 40 plus minute podcast, I take you through March's report of accessibility observations. In no way am I saying that the ssystem is perfect, because you'll see that in February, I highlight issues with trains which I did not observe in March. I want to hear from you, the listener. Especially if your trips are 90 percent or higher...

Welcome to another edtion of the podcast, I'm Jared Rimer. This time, "A Day in the life" talks about the Metro Calendar that covers events in April. We do branch in to May and beyond as we look ahead to major events like the World Cup and other events this summer. Would you like to get your hands on the calendar? Just use this link to go to the Metro calendar. We look forward in seeing you on ano...

Welcome to "A Day in the Life" with Jared, and I'm Jared. On this edition of the podcast, we want to announce that we are publishing the podcast number for Ben's memorial. If you want to hear the entire program, and or you want to keep it, Email us at metro at jaredrimer dot com (replace with symbols) and let me know you want Ben's podcast which is podcast 45 of this series. Just as a reminder, th...

On this edition of the program, we talk about the San Fernando Service Council and its meeting coming up on April 1, 2026. The biggest item will be a listening session dealing with a topic and an ad hoc committee that is tasked to talk about the composition of the board. This doesn't mean work is final, but the item is a listening session. We have plenty more still coming, so stay tuned. Thanks so...

Welcome to a day in the life of Jared, I'm Jared. On this episode, we are paying tribute to one of the AAC fomer members, Ben Rockwell. Ben was born in 1945 and died in December 2025. We were notified on December 22, 2025 and the memorial was on Sunday, March 22, 2026. The podcast itself covers his life as I knew it, the journey to Long Beach where we met up with our very own Cynde Soto, member of...

Welcome folks to the podcast. We present the board agenda package. I know we're late and I knew that would be the case, but even though we had commitments and I was sick, I want to at least try to get info out even though its past the time for public comment to be emailed in. You may do so, but the board may still receive it even if decisions are passed. I have more podcasts coming soon, and we th...

Its time for us to disclose the agenda for the operations meeting being done on Thursday this week. Learn more at http://boardagendas.metro.net on how to goin in you want to do so. I hope that you guys enjoy, and thanks for listening!

Welcome to another edition of "A Day in the Life" with Jared Rimer. I'm here to provide some podcast updates and a meeting ujpdate of meetings that will be taking place this week. We also highlight changes that will be coming as it comes to reports including adding a riders report produced each month of evaluations during rides for an entire month. We'll have more soon, thanks so much for listenin...

Lot of notes coming from the various meetings attended through jaredrimer.com and its pages. Starting next cycle, shorter files, but one for each meeting.

Our web site over at jaredrimer.com/aac has a couple of updates, the podcast I'm giving you is going to talk about the agenda package for Thursday. Hope you all enjoy it!

Our web site has the PDF of the agenda and I'll try and work on braille but will not promise it. I describe my role at Metro now, and want to tell you plainly what's going on as I continue my work with Metro. We also cover the recent meeting of operations which was on February 19th and I talk about the comment I made there. I hope you enjoy the program as much as I have bringing it together for yo...

In this episode of A day in the life, we talk about meetings we've attended. Just a note that Operations of Feb 19, and even if we record the episode today, the program takes awhile to get out so we'll mention it here. We'll have an update after the meeting.

Preston is on as part of this past Sunday's show on the independent artist show where we talk meetings, the calendar and upcoming stuff. The AAC is on Thursday, Feb 12 and we're going to push this out. We hope you enjoy the program.

Preston Gaylor, contributor of this podcast as well as what he does with dropbox for me, is on with some comments about recent events in the landscape here at Metro. Email metro@jaredrimer.com or leave a voice mail at 818-527-4754. You can also text/WhatsAPP 804-442-6975 if you wish. Thanks for listening, make it great day!

Hello gang, welcome to another edtion of the day in the life. This time, we take the next two hours to talk about the board agenda package. Items 10 and 11 are going to be hotly contested, please view the board web page for complete details on protocols for this meeting. The basics are that you will be expected, unless otherwise directed by the chair, to adhere to a 30 second time limit per commen...

Hello gang, welcome to another edition of the program here at A Day in the Life. The Code of Conduct is probably going to be the most controversial document I've ever read as part of being here at Metro. While I want to stay keeping this podcast as being a positive learning program, I read a section of the code and talk about what else it has that I don't cover. The document has been updated as of...