The latest data on gas prices was released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration: As expected, the national average and California average rose slightly to $3.88 and $4.22 per gallon of regular gas, respectively. The average in the city of L.A. is $4.25 a gallon. The chart above shows [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here to [continue reading]
photo by Miss P, via Twitter I believe this photo speaks for itself. The gas station — nice flowers, btw — was taken over the weekend at the corner of Wilshire and 26th in Santa Monica. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.84 nationally and $4.20 [continue reading]
photo by NASA I thought it was appropriate on Earth Day to link to a post we did last year on a very relevant subject: a federal report showing that taking mass transit is a good way to reduce greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and, according to many [continue reading]
photo by hannu.oskala, via Flickr creative commons This is an epically cool photo for two reasons. First, there is something very pleasing to the eye about the way that the people on the train platform in the Helsinki subway are spaced out. Second, the photographer set them against the blur [continue reading]
Happy Easter weekend Source readers. If you didn’t catch Art in the Streets at MOCA last weekend then hop on the Gold Line and check out some graffiti this weekend. On Saturday check out the Grilled Cheese Invitational, the Long Beach Comic Expo or, for fans of the band Explosions [continue reading]
photo by Jon Sittner, via Flickr I find many of the photos that we use in “the art of transit” on Flickr, which is both easy to search and has a multitude of groups dedicated to transportation. In those groups, a lot of photographers try to capture images of stairwells [continue reading]
photo by effelarr, via Flickr creative commons A nice use of blur to capture the movement of a Metro local bus on the 6th Street Bridge heading into downtown L.A. Light at mid-day can be very harsh here and I like how the color of the bus really stands out [continue reading]
photo by David Lor, via Flickr This is a very nice photo of an Amtrak employee in one of the tunnels leading to the train platforms at Los Angeles Union Station. David, a records and information coordinator for Metro, shot the original photo on film. To submit a photo or [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here to [continue reading]
