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

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of the podcast known as "A Day in the Life" for short. We'll be releasing some podcasts in the coming days, and this one will cover one of two recent blog posts in which we'll be referencing. The other, while not being covered directly, will be referenced in another podcast. This article comes to us from The Source, Metro's blog. Its titled Metro Public Safe...

Welcome to nother edition of the podcast known as "A Day in the Life." I'm Jared Rimer, and this time, we're bringing you the operations meeting agenda package. I know, I know, the braille says January 14, 2026 and I found it after I converted the thing and put it on the device. Learn more about the operations meeting by going to the board page and finding the meeting page. We'd put the official p...

I noticed I wasn't putting the year in the correct place, so we fixed this starting with this program. We cover the board agenda package for the special meeting that will take place on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Here is the Metro Board of Director page for those who need it. Visit my page at jaredrimer.com if you want to learn more or to pick up copies of the agenda.

On this edition of the program, Preston Gaylor, assistant to the Jared Rimer Network is along to ask questions about the San Fernando Service Council meeting as that meeting was hard to hear by telephone. We answer his questions, and talk about what other meetings are coming up. Look at the Metro Board Page to learn more about meetings there that are mentioned here. We'll be back with other podcas...

The San Fernando service council has also released their agenda before the new year. Instead of releasing three podcasts in one day, we'll be releasing this within the coming days. Want to get the San Fernando council package? Go on over to the San Fernando Service Council web page on jaredrimer.com to pick up your copy. We've got PDF and braille in UEB and EBAE for you. We'll see you on another e...

On this edition of the podcast, 3 sustain minor injuries in DTLA train-vehicle crash is the article in which I highlight and leave my comments. While I'm happy that there were three with minor injuries, I want to have drivers pay attention to oncoming trains as well as your every day walking people as well. I talk about this in my podcast which I thought about for quite awhile. Thanks so much for...

I had issues with the program I do brailling with, but I got it working and the PSAC page on jaredrimer.com has the agenda package now. Want to learn more about PSAC? Here is the link to do so. I hope that people enjoy the program, and we just push forward! See you soon!

Welcome to a Day in the Life of Jared. I'm Jared. On this podcast, we play some commentary from our very own Preston Gaylor, who recently got interviewed for this podcast and was recently released in Mid December. Also, on this podcast, we will go through the Metro Calendar for January. While there are other events that may be added afterword and some may change, this is what we know to date. Whil...

We recently learned that Ben Rockwell, from Long Beach recently passed away. The AAC's Cynde Soto passed along a letter from the pastor of the church they both attended. If you want a braille copy of the letter, please contact me through the Metro fan site and I'll make sure you get a copy. At some point, we can determine where to put people like Ben who have had an impact on the disability commun...

The Public Safety Advisory Committee was put in place by the board after the George Floyd protests. But do you know everything? Here is their web site if you want to learn more about it. The 4th cohort will start in February 2025 as they hand it off during that meeting. Let me know what you think. Visit Jared's Metro web page to learn more about what we're doing.

If you have not read Man sentenced for fatally stabbing woman on Metro train in Studio City in the news, that is what this podcast is going to talk about. We were there at PSAC when they m,entioned this and now we've got an update on this. This is great news, folks. We always read bad news, and I remember when this happened and we sent it to the L.A. Metro Communications list. But sometimes we don...

Preston Gaylor made an apperance during an AAC meeting, then starting work for me shortly after with organizational tasks. Sometimes, the simple jobs can be the most boring, even I went through that phase but need that help. While we're off for the holiday break, and there are no scheduled meetings, please feel free to join me in an informal interview right here on the podcast. I'll also air it ac...

As we conclude another year, we reflect on this podcast's short time here and invite users to contribute their thoughts as well. I'm not going anywhere, and I know that we'll see how things go. If you want comments aired, I give you info on how to do this from within the podcast, and I discuss where we are in our numbering scheme although we do not put episode numbers within this podcast. We discu...

I would normally write this up, but I'm still irritated at the events that took place that an audio version is better. http://boardagendas.metro.net and look for the December 4th meeting. Its under previous meetings. Hope you enjoy this 50 minute wander through the meeting of things that caught my attention.

Let's take a tour of the accessibility advisory committee agenda. We have copies at www.jaredrimer.com if you need them. Just go to the AAC link to get your copies. We have Word, PDF, and EBAE and UEB braille. The meeting is at One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles at 1 PM Thursday, December 11, 2025. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll have more content later!

Twice a year, we get service changes that affect bus and sometimes rail. In the following podcast, we're reading directly from the blog the post which covers the changes. To see more specific details, see the "Is my rout changing" page at http://www.metro.net/mybus and use your heading keys to move around the page. Thanks so much for reading and learning about what is going on with me and the agen...

On this edition of the program, we talk about Metro Micro and my thoughts on its idea to be in the Warner Center area. I live around there, so we'll see how it goes. Its a motion right now, but we'll see how it goes if it passes. We'll keep you posted!

Initially, this listening session was to take place on October 23, 2025. Rescheduled to November 18, 2025, I talk about what the presentation covered and my experience was with some of the things discussed. I tried to be as hands off as possible since there were a lot of disabled people who never talked to PSAC. I did not tape the session, these are my own thoughts. Thanks so much for listening!

Welcome folks to a traveling episode. While probably not the best stuff to podcast with, I take you in to Van Nuys for the San Fernando Service Council meeting that took place on October 1, 2025. The way i got there was from here, to the 150 by walking. Then took the 150 to the orange line at Canoga Station and then took it to Van Nuys and Oxonard. I had to walk north from there, and even went thr...

The Metro Calendar is light this month of December, but we're going to tell you what's listed. Visit www.metro.net/calendar for any updates.

Novembr 20th was an interesting meeting. Item 29 besides the monthly report, gave us something never discussed, Metro's engagement with passups and what they're doing about it. It is known that Los Angeles Metro is the only agency tracking this, and they have a 1.85 percent passup ratio. Can your agency say that? Let's discuss this in this episode of a day in the life of Jared.

I know this will be quite lengthy, but I do have comments and I go through the agenda. We fixed the braille issues mentioned, go to the board page to pick up a new one if you picked up the first copy. Lots of items as this is the final board meeting of the year and its their November-December meeting. They do not meet on Thanksgiving, technically the 4th thursday, and the 4th thursday in December...

Hello, This is the final meeting of the Operations group for the year. You can find more information through the board web page which includes other meetings which we may not have a need to attend. The braille is a lot better today but we spotted two things, one of which I think I missed and another I didn't realize what it would do. For full print, you may visit the board web page linked above, o...

This podcast covers an article from the source from Steve H. who covers the return of this vital program. This also is covered by KTLA Los Angeles. We'll make sure to get that coverage up on our web site at jaredrimer.com for you to read. Please reach out if you have any questions. email: metro at jaredrimer.com text/WhatsApp: 804-442-6975 Thanks so much for having an interest in our podcast, and...

This article is going to be linked from within jaredrimer.com under the blog. But for those of you who want audio, I'm providing this by audio. This weArticle in audio: Then and now: How a groundbreaking in Long Beach sparked 40 years of rail growth