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Traffic Reduction Study

Metro is exploring a potential pilot project of congestion pricing and reinvestment in transportation services that could reduce traffic and help people spend less time traveling.

Overview

Location: Central Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Westside Cities

Phase: Early Planning

Type: Less Traffic

Forecasted Opening: 2028

Metro has a plan to make it easier to get around, which is why Metro’s Traffic Reduction Study (TRS) is exploring how congestion pricing could reduce traffic. It would be aimed at successfully reducing congestion, enhancing economic opportunity, reducing air and climate pollution, making our roads safer and transit faster, and reinvesting in our communities.

The approach consists of:

Managing travel demand through congestion pricing
Providing more high-quality transportation options
Offering low-income assistance programs

Status

Metro is refining the concept design for these potential pricing areas based on modeling results and public feedback.

Santa Monica Mountains – Pricing on the I-405, US-101 and I-5, and multiple canyon arterial roads between the I-405 and US-101.  
DTLA – Pricing on surface streets and the DTLA freeway ring.
I-10 – Pricing on I-10 between DTLA and the western terminus of the freeway in Santa Monica.

We are evaluating the feedback we gathered during our outreach and engagement period throughout the Fall/Winter 2023 on the three primary study areas. We have been able to reach thousands of community members across the County through in-person and virtual community meetings, presentations, partnerships with community-based organizations, and English and Spanish language surveys posted on our project website that received more than 1000 responses.

As a result of the input we have received, we plan to conduct further analysis regarding the types of improvements that people would like to see funded in these areas, such as bus-only lanes, Metro station upgrades, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. We anticipate another set of community meetings to share those results.