[youtube width=”600″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVJJvDmpF3w[/youtube] Here’s some more Expo Line eye candy: watch as Metro staff roll out the first light rail vehicle on to tracks for testing. The train is pulled by a “high-rail” vehicle – basically a big truck fitted with steel wheels – as there is currently no power [continue reading]
The news release from Metro is below and here’s the link to a previous post about the rail yard: First Maintenance Facility in the Nation Metro Celebrates International Environmental Award Today the Metro rail yard for the Red and Purple Line subway became the first major rail maintenance facility in [continue reading]
Apps. We used to call them computer programs back when computers were just for for geeks. Now they’re ubiquitous. Apple coined the phrase “there’s an app for that” and guess what, there is an app for virtually anything you can think of. There’s even Metro apps – fifteen of them (not [continue reading]
The Transit Coalition is hosting Metro CEO Art Leahy at their monthly meeting tonight. If you’ve never attended a Transit Coalition meeting – it’s a casual event where Leahy will discuss the latest happenings at Metro and field your questions while dining on french dip sandwiches at Philippe The Original [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors Operations Committee on Thursday met to consider the proposed June 2011 service changes. A full list of the proposed changes is available here [PDF]. After a line-by-line review of the changes, the Operations Committee voted to forward the proposed bus service changes to the full [continue reading]
One million hits can’t be wrong. The Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library’s Flickr photostream can take you anywhere you want to go visually in the transportation history of the Los Angeles region. With no bells and whistles, the one-millionth hit on the photostream crept past the counter this morning at [continue reading]
Ronald Llanos describes himself as a visual journalist. “My images are inspired by people and by the places I travel to or frequent,” he says. Ron collects drawings in a sketchbook while people watching in a café or walking through Los Angeles neighborhoods. He creates thousands of quick sketches of [continue reading]
Metro has recently launched a new feature on Metro.net, Live Help beta. Live Help beta creates a seamless link between Metro.net and Customer Relations, allowing patrons to chat live with Customer Information Agents via a web based instant messaging interface. This provides web savvy (or phone-phobic) customers with an easy [continue reading]
photo by Faria, via Flickr A nicely exposed and framed shot of the Red Line’s Vermont and Sunset station, with its starscape murals. As noted on the photo’s Flickr page, on weekends subway passengers can exit the train at this stop and access the city of L.A.’s DASH bus to [continue reading]
The Metro web team has revamped the Service Advisories feature on Metro.net with an interface facelift and improved functionality to make it easier for Metro bus and rail riders to stay on top of service issues that may affect their travels. What’s new? Here’s a list of features that have [continue reading]
