Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and space constraints limit us from listing every accessible event in this city, but this curated list represents what we think is cool and easy to get to. To plan your trip and to check [continue reading]
As announced by LA Streetsblog, UCLA researchers recently launched a website of photos taken by transit riders around Los Angeles that I highly recommend checking out. The site, called “The Zen of Public Transit: Using Visual Ethnography to Understand the Transit Experience” is more than just The Source’s weekday “Art [continue reading]
photo by Harold R. Senthee, via his Flickr photostream If it looks like something out of another century, well it is. This is the famous “floating train” of Wuppertal, Germany. It was built in 1900 and is actually a monorail; the idea was to find a transit system that would [continue reading]
[youtube width=”560″ height=”349″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchZgDuzOCo&feature=player_embedded#at=27[/youtube] Sidelined this year but still want a piece of the action? Make Metro Rail your curbside ticket to the Los Angeles Marathon. Check out the L.A. Marathon’s animated video of the route this year and pick a good spot close to a Metro Rail station. Eight Metro [continue reading]
photo by Kirill Surov, via his Flickr photostream A nice warm weather photo of a ferry on Lake Ontario in Toronto. I think this may be our first photo of a ferry — we tend to run a lot of photos of trains. I’ll have to remedy that, as there [continue reading]
photo by Jory, via Flickr If you guessed that’s the Gelson’s on Hyperion Avenue in Silver Lake, then you guessed correct. I like this photo because there is nothing fancy about it — it’s just a nice shot of a dude riding his bike in L.A. To submit a photo [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 [continue reading]
photo by Patrick Boury, via Flickr Here’s a nice shot of the BART swooshing by in Cherryland, an unincorporated part of Alameda County in the Bay Area. The photo was taken with a Nikon D200 with a 1/25th shutter speed, f/4.8 aperture, 38 mm focal length and 100 ISO. To [continue reading]
photo by Alexandre Claude, via Flickr We recently featured a lovely photo of a long corridor in the Montreal Metro. Above is another photo, with a wider view of a station by photographer Alexandre Claude (here’s a link to his photo blog). I’m not sure how I feel about the [continue reading]
Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and space constraints limit us from listing every accessible event in this city, but this curated list represents what we think is cool and easy to get to. To plan your trip and to check [continue reading]
