The Silver Line debuted on this day in 2009, running seven days a week between the El Monte Station in the San Gabriel Valley, downtown Los Angeles and the Artesia Transit Center in the South Bay. (See the map after the jump). The bus makes that trip in under [continue reading]
photo by Spider_Dude, via Camera+ Cool shot taken with the iPhone’s Camera+ app on a northbound Line 96 bus on the northbound Pasadena Freeway. 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 of the [continue reading]
photo by Willamor Media, via Flickr creative commons Great street scene in Hong Kong, taken in 2005. There’s a lot going on transpo-wise in this photo, which also shows off Hong Kong’s density. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or [continue reading]
photo by Mishtun, via Tumblr Nice shot of the moon over Union Station last night. That’s Metro’s headquarters towering over the Metrolink train. 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 of the photos [continue reading]
Photo by Metro Library and Transportation Archive, via their Flickr photostream That’s the old Ivy stop — i.e. Culver City — circa 1905. The new Expo Line station is a little larger. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet [continue reading]
Here’s the news release: Leave the Driving to Metro — To promote a safe holiday season, Metro will offer a special holiday free fare program for all Metro Bus and Metro Rail lines operating on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The free fare program will be in effect [continue reading]
photo by Chris Walters, via Flickr Cool photo of the Sydney Harbor Bridge taken with the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone. The filters used were the John S lens and the BlacKeys b&w film. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email [continue reading]
photo by Steve Hymon/Metro I took this photo from the platform of a southbound Gold Line train pulling into the South Pasadena station last week. I shot the photo with my Nikon D5100 and then in Photoshop Elements used the “Fresco” function to make it look like a drawing or [continue reading]
photo by Dommy_in_LA, via Twitter Nice shot of Expo Line testing. If you missed the news, testing ramped up yesterday — here’s the news release from Friday. 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 [continue reading]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32894831[/vimeo] Here’s a fun video from the Path Less Pedaled website on getting from the San Fernando Valley to Leo Carrillo State Beach using the Red Line, a bus and a bike ride up PCH.
