photo by Steve Bott, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo taken on Saturday on opening day of the Expo Line. That very happy looking guy on the right side of the photo happens to be The Source’s very own Carter Rubin. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, [continue reading]
photo by Craig Dietrich, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo taken at the Pico station on the Expo Line’s inaugural day. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlHrN1cu9M[/youtube] Here’s video posted to YouTube of the first Expo Line train in service at about 5 a.m. Saturday morning — for those of you who had something better to do (i.e. sleep).
The Expo Line’s opening weekend with free rides is now complete and regular service begins early Monday morning between 7th/Metro Center in downtown Los Angeles and the La Cienega/Jefferson station. The first westbound train from 7th/Metro Center leaves at 4:54 a.m. and the first eastbound train from La Cienega/Jefferson station [continue reading]
The zombies of Thrill the World Los Angeles joined Expo’s opening day festivities with flash mob performances at each station.
We’ve posted tons on the Expo Line’s opening on Saturday, here’s a brief recap: •Expo Line trains will be running from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday from 7th/Metro Center station in downtown Los Angeles to the La Cienega/Jefferson station. Two Expo Line stations are not opening [continue reading]
The art and destinations guide are posted after the jump. They can be downloaded as pdfs — destination here and art here — or you can view them on this blog using Scribd.
First, a plug: If you’re planning to attend this weekend’s Expo Line festivities, go ahead and subscribe to Metro on Twitter at @MetroLosAngeles, so you can follow our coverage in real time and share with us all your Expo thoughts and photos. Now, business: We’ll be the first to admit [continue reading]
In a perfect world, I’d be writing that you could take a downbound Expo Line train the Thursday and Friday night Bruce Springsteen shows at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. As fate would have it — pretty much sealed the day I got a ticket to the Friday night show [continue reading]
