Trying to save time this holiday season? Here are a couple of suggestions for great pumpkin pie the easy way … via Metro. Sweet Lady Jane is a great place for pumpkin pie, coconut cake, whatever: 8360 Melrose Ave.; West Hollywood; (323) 653-7145. (Call ahead to check on pie availability.) [continue reading]
photo by Alan Weeks, via Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page Great shot of the old Glendale Line streetcar crossing the Los Angeles River in April, 1952. As many locals know, the bridge abutments are still there but the span is gone. The photo was taken from the Hyperion [continue reading]
photo by hustleupshannon, via Instagram Nice shoes and nice light in this Instagram photo taken with an iPhone on what appears to be a Gold Line train platform. 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 [continue reading]
photo by @Spider_Dude, via Twitter The Blue Line as seen from the Wilmington/Imperial Green Line station in Willowbrook. Very cool photo — great colors! 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 [continue reading]
photo by Jeff Goodhart, via submission Nicely composed photo taken in the train station in Florence, Italy. The photo was taken with a Nikon D90, with a Nikkor 35mm 1.8 lens, a 1/80th second shutter speed and aperture of f/1.8. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
I first stumbled across teacher/designer Scott Glew’s sleek transit posters on his website FadeOutDesign.com this summer. The idea is simple but compelling: Use the text of station names to spell out city transit lines. I admired Glew’s series of maps for Chicago, New York, the S.F. Bay Area and other [continue reading]
Given the region’s rich Vietnamese community it’s logicial that there are hundreds (or is it thousands?) of places that serve the rice noodle soup called pho. Not surprisingly, there are a number of good places near Metro in or close to downtown L.A. If you’re in search of cheap meals, Vietnamese pho (pronounced fah) [continue reading]
photo by Trey Ratcliff, via Flickr creative commons A stunning HDR photo of Grand Central Station on a rainy night in New York in 2009. The photo is a blending of several images taken with different exposures — aka the “high dynamic range” method. The images were captures with a [continue reading]
photo by Elliot Scott, via Flickr creative commons Nice shot of the New York subway taken with the revved-up iPhone 4s camera. Elliot used the Camera+ app. I’m still waiting impatiently for Source readers to submit photos of our Metro system taken with the new iPhone. To submit a photo [continue reading]
photo by David B. Gleason, via Flickr’s creative commons The photo is from 2007, but it’s a good one, showing an ultra-wide bike lane on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, where current Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed building 25 miles of protected bike lanes each year. Those are lanes in which [continue reading]
