FREE fares on subway and select bus lines Free fares in effect on Saturday, July 16 & Sunday, July 17 Line & Main Corridor Line & Main Corridor 2 – Sunset Bl 233 & 761 – Van Nuys Bl 4 & 704 – Santa Monica Bl 234 – Sepulveda Bl, [continue reading]
The perils of being an early-adopter: I was recently surprised to discover that my 3 year old TAP card had expired. And I’m not the only one. We received this tweet today: @blinkie Tried to load my TAP card with a day pass and the machine said it expired. @metrolosangeles [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RDy3GD6q8&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] As many of you are surely aware, there’s been several homemade videos floating around the web about Carmageddon. Here’s one that is G rated — as in “government website appropriate” — and is quite funny.
When the I-405 Countdown to Closure clock rolls into zero at midnight on July 16, the by-now onerous warning will morph into high-definition images streamed live from metro.net for a world-wide view of the demolition work on the Mulholland Bridge during Carmageddon weekend. The countdown clock, a web widget downloadable in [continue reading]
Here is the new PSA from the Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the 405 shutdown over the Sepulveda Pass that begins late Friday evening and is scheduled to last until 5 a.m. Monday.
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Green Line Due to maintenance work occurring 9am to 2pm, westbound trains to Redondo Beach will run 4 minutes earlier than regular schedule. Westbound [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73WhUXn3tUA&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] Check out the preview above of a 30-minute program on Carmageddon that was produced by UCLA and is scheduled to air tonight at 8 p.m. and again Friday at 9:30 p.m. on KCET. UCLA’s sprawling campus in Westwood is, of course, directly impacted by this weekend’s closure of the [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Green Line Due to maintenance work occurring 9am to 2pm, westbound trains to Redondo Beach will run 4 minutes earlier than regular schedule. Westbound [continue reading]
Metro issued a long news release this afternoon explaining the process in which the Mulholland Bridge will be partially demolished this weekend when the 405 is shut down over the Sepulveda Pass. The entire release is below. Here are a few highlights: •This is not an “implosion” type demolition. Half [continue reading]
Travelers heading from Los Angeles Union Station downtown to Burbank Bob Hope Airport between July 15 and July 17—during the Mulholland Bridge partial demolition and 405 freeway closure in the Sepulveda Pass—can receive a 50 percent discount from Amtrak. Amtrak describes the offer as an effort to support travelers during [continue reading]
