CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Transit Operations?

$44.1M across 968 payments, July 18, 2017 to August 13, 2026 — 98 purchase orders and 13 vendors, run by Transportation.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: TRANSIT OPERATIONS

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 98 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$44.1MTotal spent
98Purchase orders
13Vendors
72%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$9.3M
FY2018-19
$10.2M
FY2019-20
$9.3M
FY2020-21
$5.4M
FY2021-22
$6.5M
FY2022-23
$2.3M
FY2023-24
$477K
FY2024-25
$258K
FY2025-26
$257K
FY2026-27 *
$40K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $64K.

Who was paid

490 payments

53 payments

12 payments

62 payments

40 payments

1 payment

52 payments

9 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 98 purchase orders booked to this line.

195 payments · September 18, 2019 to October 21, 2022

102 payments · September 18, 2018 to August 5, 2020

72 payments · September 21, 2017 to January 18, 2019

26 payments · September 21, 2018 to August 6, 2019

17 payments · January 31, 2018 to January 8, 2019

40 payments · July 25, 2017 to May 7, 2020

12 payments · July 20, 2017 to August 29, 2017

10 payments · October 8, 2019 to January 7, 2021

19 payments · November 3, 2022 to February 16, 2024

12 payments · September 20, 2018 to August 19, 2019

42 payments · September 17, 2019 to November 16, 2022

8 payments · September 1, 2017 to December 13, 2017

12 payments · September 19, 2017 to August 21, 2018

10 payments · September 25, 2019 to June 22, 2020

16 payments · February 9, 2021 to January 20, 2022

16 payments · September 19, 2018 to August 16, 2019

13 payments · September 14, 2017 to August 15, 2018

94 payments · January 8, 2019 to August 13, 2026

4 payments · July 18, 2017 to August 11, 2017

14 payments · January 20, 2022 to July 25, 2024

13 payments · November 15, 2019 to October 6, 2020

25 payments · August 14, 2024 to August 12, 2026

2 payments · July 18, 2017 to August 23, 2017

2 payments · July 27, 2017 to August 21, 2017

1 payment · December 2, 2020 to December 2, 2020

5 payments · July 13, 2018 to October 11, 2018

1 payment · October 13, 2022 to October 13, 2022

1 payment · February 7, 2023 to February 7, 2023

1 payment · March 16, 2023 to March 16, 2023

1 payment · February 7, 2023 to February 7, 2023

1 payment · March 14, 2023 to March 14, 2023

1 payment · December 15, 2022 to December 15, 2022

1 payment · March 14, 2023 to March 14, 2023

1 payment · October 11, 2022 to October 11, 2022

1 payment · August 25, 2022 to August 25, 2022

38 payments · April 28, 2022 to June 23, 2025

12 payments · August 6, 2020 to July 9, 2021

1 payment · May 25, 2022 to May 25, 2022

1 payment · January 19, 2022 to January 19, 2022

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.