Fernando Dutra’s friends are excited that the Whittier City Council member is now the chair of the Metro Board. He says they’re contacting him to tell him when their rides were easy and clean, to celebrate the diversity of riders on the system and to point out problems like trash or graffiti.
“I tell ‘em, go on the [LA Metro Transit Watch app], and let us know,” Dutra said in a Zoom interview with LAist. “Boom — by the time they get back, it’s clean.”
Dutra’s not new to the body that governs Metro, having been on the board since 2021. But his responsibilities expanded after he inherited the Metro Board chair’s gavel from L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn last month…