Metro’s Research and Development team has been gathering and analyzing data on Metro bus/rail users since 2003. The annual customer satisfaction survey was implemented to help inform transit planners and division managers of overall customer satisfaction, on-time performance, cleanliness, safety, as well as track demographic shifts in Metro ridership. This [continue reading]
During Bike Week LA, we collected nominations for the Golden Pedal Awards, Metro’s annual competition for great stories about bicycling. We’re featuring these stories in a Why You Ride series – because for many Angelenos, every week is Bike Week! Maria Sipin was nominated by her sister Andrea for maintaining [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=7406937] We just became aware of this interesting slice of the Internet: The “Men taking up too much space on the train” blog on Tumblr. It’s a very simple blog: it’s a series of photos of men consuming one or more seats on trains. A few of the photos [continue reading]
During Bike Week LA, we collected nominations for the Golden Pedal Awards, Metro’s annual competition for great stories about bicycling. We’re featuring these stories in a weekly 'Why You Ride' series – because for many Angelenos, every week is Bike Week! Jon Overman was nominated for a Golden Pedal Award [continue reading]
During Bike Week LA, we collected nominations for the Golden Pedal Awards, Metro’s annual competition for great stories about bicycling. We’re featuring these stories in a weekly Why You Ride series – because for many Angelenos, every week is Bike Week! Alan Kwan’s commute to work was 25 miles long [continue reading]
Above are the results thus far of our unscientific (as always) poll on how transit riders feel about other transit riders wearing Google Glass in the future with some of the comments below. Thus far, the results are very mixed and indicate that Google Glass may have a little work [continue reading]
Every weekday morning I commute to work during rush hour on bike, starting from the Mid-City neighborhood and ending at Metro headquarters, adjacent to Union Station in downtown LA. On a bike it’s a tricky commute for many cyclists. Only one east-west street in the area has a bike lane [continue reading]
In recent months, I’ve been reading with increasing curiosity about Google Glass, the glasses developed by Google which allow users to view the internet and take photos and videos. They are not on the market yet, but Google has been providing them to some members of the public for test [continue reading]
There will be no Service Council meeting in August. All five Metro Service Councils voted to go dark during the month of August at their meetings the previous month. The decision was primarily based on the fact that all August Metro Board committee meetings, and the regular monthly full meeting [continue reading]
During Bike Week LA, we collected nominations for the Golden Pedal Awards, Metro’s annual competition for great stories about bicycling. We’re featuring these stories in a weekly Why You Ride series – because for many Angelenos, every week is Bike Week! Breeanna Taylor bikes 12 miles down the Imperial Highway [continue reading]
