Bike Week L.A. is approaching and we’re looking to hear stories from our readers who use pedal power to get around. We launched our new reader survey series Why I Cycle last week and have already received a great response. Nearly 100 readers have shared their cycling habits, stories and [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=4990363] I’ll keep the above poll open for voting, but the results thus far (posted below) seem pretty clear: readers approve of the Metro Board’s decision last week to immediately lift the ban on bikes on Metro Rail during peak hours.
Bikes are huge right now! CicLAvia was a rousing success, Metro just lifted its rush hour ban on bikes on trains and National Bike Month is days away. Because of this we thought it was a great time to launch a new series on the Source titled “Why I Cycle” [continue reading]
As 2010 was winding down and The Source was celebrating the end of its first year of Metro blogging, we put together a poll to find out more about our readers and what they thought about Metro’s Web 2.0 venture. We closed the survey in January of this year and [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”368″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALstgajxMdI[/youtube] Whitney Lynn (aka @catahstrophic) is a Rail LA volunteer who decided the best way to get to the Rail LA booth at Sunday’s CicLAvia was to hop on the Red Line – for the first time ever. Check out this video she tweeted us to see what [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
Just a quick heads up: Metro’s Spanish-language blog El Pasajero is launching on Friday and will be prominently featured for the next few days on the Metro.net homepage in place of The Source’s usual chunk of real estate. But we’re not going away! There will still be a tab linking [continue reading]
Here are our selections this week: Joel Epstein, West L.A. – Why You Ride “Save money, reduce my carbon footprint, reduce stress, leave the driving to someone who is better at it then me, and of course because solo drivers are the root of all evil and the cause of [continue reading]
