If you loathe driving on New Year’s Eve, all Metro buses and trains are offering free fares from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight and early tomorrow morning. Here’s a link to the press release. All Metro rail lines and the Orange Line busway are running all night for the [continue reading]
If driving anywhere on Thursday night gives you a case of the willies — and it probably should, quite frankly — please remember that rides on Metro buses and trains are free from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. that evening. I’ll issue another reminder the next couple of days. Plan [continue reading]
Metro is promoting Gold Line service to Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses, the Rose Bowl game on New Year’s Day and the BCS title game on Jan. 7. More frequent service is being added for all three events. Four Gold Line stations are a short walk to the parade [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw[/youtube] Stockholm has been struggling with climbing obesity rates and is trying to promote exercise. What to do? Watch the video to find out one way to make exercise more fun. Note: If this doesn’t make you smile, you are one Grumpy Bear!
Go Metro Weekends is The Source’s weekly guide to having a great weekend in L.A. without a car. All events are easily accessible (within a half mile walk) by Metro bus and rail lines. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and [continue reading]
This morning Metro CEO Art Leahy signed off on running all night service on the Metro Orange Line this New Year’s Eve. The Orange Line busway will join its steel-wheeled Metro Rail brethren (the Red, Purple, Blue, Green and Gold Lines) in offering this special 24-hour service to Metro riders. [continue reading]
Metro is really getting into the holiday spirit. We already mentioned you can ride free on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, but Metro has also announced that trains will run all night on New Year’s Eve. Here’s the skinny: trains will run every 20 minutes from 9 p.m. on [continue reading]
While many people enjoy taking Metro to discover ethnic enclaves in Los Angeles, for my special needs son and I, culture is secondary. Food and bookstores drive us. Still, after taking the Metro Gold Line umpteen times to Pasadena and trekking down Colorado Boulevard to Vroman’s Bookstore, SoCal’s oldest and [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”338″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVoEEipDpg[/youtube] By now I think we’re all aware of the culinary delights that await Metro riders traveling into East L.A. on the the new Gold Line extension. But last week Metro Media Relations released a press release that caught my eye (and my appetite) with a list of [continue reading]
Go Metro Weekends is The Source’s weekly guide to having a great weekend in L.A. without a car. All events are easily accessible (within a half mile walk) by Metro bus and rail lines. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and [continue reading]
