Presenters from all over the nation pitched their companies at the Sidewalk and Transit Amenities Program (STAP) Virtual Networking Event held July 22. During the five-hour event, more than 30 innovators and entrepreneurs made four-minute, Shark Tank-like pitches in a program designed to encourage the formation of teams to respond to the Request for Proposals (RFP) to be released later this year. Watch the event.

Working with our contract partners, we are doubling the frequency of cleaning at bus stops and have installed 300 touch-free hand sanitizers at the highest used bus stops across the City. See more: https://streetsla.lacity.org/transit-shelter-hand-sanitizers

More than 70 people joined the STAP RFI Briefing session held online March 17, 2020. Now that responses to the RFI have been submitted, StreetsLA is working to prepare an RFP. More info on that timeline will be posted here when available. Check back for updates!

The City extended the Bus Bench Program contract with Insite Street Media, LLC (ISSM) for an additional 5 years, through October 2026.  As a part of the extended Program term, ISSM will furnish the City with an additional 750 bus benches.

Cool Amenities: As part of Mayor Garcetti’s Green New Deal, StreetsLA has begun to add cooling features, trees and more shade at bus stops. Starting in October 2019, Insite Street Media (ISSM) installed the first of 50 experimental shade umbrellas to provide much needed shade throughout the City.  In the coming months, ISSM will be pursuing the design and construction of more shade structures with the goal of installing upwards of 300 permanent shade structures over the City’s bus benches this year.