For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Blue Line Due to Expo Line late night construction, after 8:15 pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for [continue reading]
The first meeting of the full Board of Directors of Metro is Thursday morning at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters, which is conveniently adjacent to Union Station. The meeting, as always, is open to the public and will take place in the Board room on the third floor. Here’s the [continue reading]
In the latest issue of the L.A. Weekly a reader pressed Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the paper, to suggest “the best neighborhood in L.A. to live in if you don’t have a car” with the caveat that the suggestion be “purely within the gastronomical interest.” [continue reading]
Celebrate “Year of the Rabbit” at Monterey Park on Saturday, January 29 and Sunday, January 30 and kick off the Chinese New Year with the traditional lion, dancers and fireworks. Onsite vendors will offer unique gifts and specialty items, food booths, amusement rides, and lots of live entertainment. Festival will [continue reading]
Here’s the statement, issued Wednesday morning by County Supervisor Don Knabe, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Metro: Metro is encouraged by last night’s State of the Union speech where President Obama talked about the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and his commitment to redoubling efforts to [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=4449918] Most readers are already aware that Metro has a few Twitter accounts including @MetroLAalerts – an account dedicated solely to service alerts that was launched last February. What readers might not know is that there is no dedicated Twitter team at Metro. In fact, most of the updates [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Obama aims to boost infrastructure spending (Wall Street Journal) The Journal notes that Obama’s infrastructure plans — discussed in his State of [continue reading]
photo by Steve Hymon Although we call it “the art of transit,” we like to run photos of all forms of transportation. In that spirit, here’s a photo of something that used to be a road — specifically, the fire road along the Arroyo Seco above Pasadena. The wildfires of [continue reading]
The White House has also released a “fact sheet” that adds a few (although not a lot) of details about how President Obama plans to achieve the goals listed in his State of the Union speech. Here’s the section on infrastructure and transportation: Repairing roads, bridges and transit: The President’s [continue reading]
Below are the remarks on infrastructure and transportation made by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last night. Here is the video; the following part of the speech begins at the 32:00 minute mark: The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America. To attract [continue reading]
