Metro officials on Wednesday said that there are preliminary indications that the accident last week in which a Blue Line train struck a Long Beach police car was caused by operator error. Officials told the agency’s Board of Directors planning committee today that their investigation is also ongoing. A Long [continue reading]
Metro officials say that they will release a full report to the agency’s Board of Directors’ Operations Committee next Thursday about the accident on Wednesday in which a Metro Blue Line train struck a Long Beach police vehicle. A Long Beach police officer who was driving the vehicle suffered moderate [continue reading]
A Metro Blue Line train and city of Long Beach police vehicle collided in Long Beach about 1 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, sending a police officer to the hospital with unspecified but non-life threatening injures, according to Metro officials and several media reports. Eight passengers on the Blue Line train [continue reading]
A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a northbound Blue Line train at about 7:39 p.m. Thursday night in downtown Los Angeles. The incident occured on Flower Street, south of Venice Boulevard. The incident is being investigated; the victim was described as a male in his 40s. The Associated [continue reading]
Tomorrow is July 1 and that means that it’s finally time for the Metro fare increase approved in 2007 to take effect. That means that the single-ride fare of $1.25 will increase to $1.50 and a day pass will rise from $5 to $6. Here’s a full list of the [continue reading]
Commuters and neighbors can see that the I-405 uses a sophisticated system of lanes, ramps and signage to move hundreds of thousands of vehicles each day. What few see is the comprehensive drainage system beneath the I-405 road surface. Miles of drains under the I-405 carry runoff from rain falling [continue reading]
Metro just released its list of schedule changes that are effective on Sunday, June 27. In some cases, buses will run a little less often. In other cases, routes have been modified. The idea, Metro officials say, is to make service more efficient. The moves are also intended to save [continue reading]
As we reported last year, a regional 511 trip-planning website — along with phone service — has been under development. It’s still not fully baked, but has come far enough along that transit officials in Southern California are officially launching the service this Monday. The Go511 website is still in [continue reading]
Green LA Girl reports that L.A. finally has a new car sharing option. Here’s the gist: Called LAXCarShare, this new car-sharing service officially launched May 17, and already has 5 cars available for hourly rental in downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Venice with plans to add cars in 3 [continue reading]
It’s been a year since Metro made its route and schedule data public and in that time 14 applications have popped up that make use of the data. You can find the list of third party apps on Metro.net’s new Mobile Resources page. There’s a few web based apps on [continue reading]
