Fareless Transit Boardings

Key Takeaways Sources & Methods
  • Students use their Fareless Transit passes mostly in the fall and spring seasons, most likely to get to school. Boardings dip over the summer but tend to rise back up by the start of the school year.
  • After the program launched in the middle of the 2021-2022 school year, the boarding numbers doubled in the 2022-2023 school year.
  • Boarding data for the 2023-2024 school year is incomplete, but the numbers are on pace to surpass the previous year‘s totals.


Source: LA Metro Fareless System Initiative

Notes:

Fareless Transit data was forwarded for the entire county. Data was cut down to schools within the South LA Promise Zone boundaries, and totals were aggregated.

Fareless Transit Registration

Key Takeaways Sources & Methods
  • After the program launched in the middle of the 2021-2022 school year, the nearly a quarter of the South LA Promise Zone school students enrolled in the Fareless Transit program.
  • In the second year, the total registrants decreased, mainly because only 6% of the prior year’s registrants renewed their Fareless Transit pass (compared to the county-wide retention rate of 14%).
  • However, in the third year of the program so far, more than a quarter of the prior year’s registrants have already renewed their Fareless Transit pass. This is exactly in line with the program-wide retention rate of 26%.
  • The total number of registered users in the 2023-24 school year has already exceeded the prior year‘s total number.
  • The higher the grade level, the more likely students are to enroll in the Fareless Transit program.


Source:  LA Metro Fareless System Initiative

Notes:

Fareless Transit data was forwarded for the entire county. Data was cut down to schools within the South LA Promise Zone boundaries, and totals were aggregated.

Schools that serve any grade between K-5 are designated as elementary schools. Schools that serve any grade between 6-8 are designated as middle/intermediate schools. Schools that serve any grade 9 and up are designated as high/adult schools. Schools that serve multiple age groups are included in every category for which they have students (e.g. a school that serves grades K-8 is included in both the “Elementary School” and “Intermediate/Middle School” tabs).

Each tab displays a line for the “South Los Angeles Promise Zone Schools.” This line is the aggregate registration for all of the schools in that tab’s grade level designation.

Cyclist Safety

Key Takeaways Sources & Methods
  • Over the last decade, the rate of traffic collisions with cyclists has been consistently higher in the South LA Promise Zone than in the larger City of Los Angeles. 
  • Since 2017, the number of collisions with cyclists in the South LA Promise Zone has been steadily decreasing. 
  • The majority (59%) of collisions with cyclists in the South LA Promise Zone happen on streets without a bike lane. 

Traffic Collisions: California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS)

Resident Population: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

Bike Lanes: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Pedestrian Safety

Key Takeaways Sources & Methods
  • Over the last decade, the rate of traffic collisions with pedestrians has been consistently higher in the South LA Promise Zone than in the larger City of Los Angeles. 
  • Since 2016, the number of collisions with pedestrians in the South LA Promise Zone has been steadily decreasing. 

Traffic Collisions: California Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS)

Resident Population: American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates

Tree Cover

Key Takeaways Sources & Methods
  • 12% of land in the South LA Promise Zone is covered by tree canopy compared to 25% of land across the City of Los Angeles.

Source: Los Angeles County Tree Canopy Map Viewer by Tree People and the Center of Urban Resilience (CURes) at Loyola Marymount University (LMU)

Notes:

Data gathered in 2016. 

Possible Tree Canopy includes areas that are theoretically available for the establishment of tree canopy. This category includes both pervious areas (lawns, gardens, parks, etc) and impervious areas (asphalt or concrete surfaces, excluding roads and buildings) where improvements could ostensibly be made to accommodate additional trees.

Learn more about this data from the original source:

The Journey to the Los Angeles County Tree Canopy Map Viewer