Transit Service

Video: Metrolink Positive Train Control System

[youtube width=”600″ height=”362″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIsQuoFXwe4[/youtube] In a post earlier today we told you about a $6.6 million federal grant to help fund Metrolink’s efforts to install Positive Train Control (PTC) along its commuter rail system. But what is PTC exactly? This informative video from Metrolink features some nice computer animation that explains [continue reading]

Fox near the Green Line?

If you rode the Green Line this afternoon and noticed the train slowing down in the vicinity of the Vermont station, here’s why: a gray fox — or at least a critter resembling 0ne — was apparently spotted near the tracks yesterday. Wildlife officials have been trying to capture it. [continue reading]