The plan supports key transportation goals of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration, including improving bus reliability and coordination of infrastructure investments to improve transit.
The move will result in an additional $1.25 per hour wage increase, which for example, would increase the starting hourly wage for Broward County Transit bus operators to $20.73.
The standing-room-only ceremony was held at the Jane Thompson Memorial Chambers.
Metro’s monthly bus and rail ridership is now at 79% of its 2019 pre-pandemic level. Average weekend ridership is now at 92% of pre-pandemic (October 2019) levels and 78% for average weekdays.
Anthony Incorvati, Business Development Manager, Americas, for Axis Communications, joins METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman from the APTA EXPO show floor to discuss video surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, and much more.