Reminder: Metro buses and trains on holiday schedule on Memorial Day
The holiday schedule is the same as the Sunday schedule. Here’s a link to timetables and maps for Metro bus and rail service.
Answers to your questions about TAP
We recently asked readers to send us your questions about TAP, the electronic fare cards used by Metro and several other transit agencies in Los Angeles County. We received several dozen inquiries, which we boiled down to the questions below. The answers were written by Fred and I, based on [continue reading]
Metro receives grant to study electric car charging stations
This is sort of a back-to-the-future type post, with the emphasis on “back.” Attentive Source readers will recall the 1990s when electric car charging stations started popping up around California, the hope being that the state was on the verge of an electric car revolution. For a number of reasons [continue reading]
Motion asks for daily and weekly EZ passes and true regional trip planner
The Board of Directors of Metro meet on Thursday and they will be considering this interesting motion by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that asks the agency to develop a daily and weekly EZ Pass and develop a regional trip planner. The motion is in response to a recent string [continue reading]
10 essential bikes as transportation blogs
As Bike Week comes to a close we present a list of 10 great blogs that cover bikes as the fantastic form of transportation that they are. Sure bikes are fun and make for a great workout – but they also happen to be an easy and eco-friendly way to [continue reading]
Reminder: share your favorite bike blogs with us
We’re working on coming up with a list of essential “bikes-as-transportation” blogs to celebrate Bike Week and to round off our collection of essential blogs lists. In the past we’ve made lists for essential Los Angeles transportation blogs, essential transportation blogs that aren’t specific to L.A. and essential transit agency [continue reading]
Help us choose 10 essential bikes-as-transportation blogs
To close out Bike Week I’d like to round up the 10 best bikes-as-transportation blogs out there. I say bikes-as-transportation because largely bikes are seen as tools for recreation and fitness (and sometimes as nothing more than children’s playthings) not as serious tools for mobility – for that the glory [continue reading]
State approves big chunk of funding for train safety system for Metrolink
We posted yesterday that the state was on the verge of approving $46 million in funding for positive train control, a computer-based system designed to keep trains providing. It’s a system that Metrolink has sought since the tragic crash in Chatsworth in Sept. 2008 that killed 25. More funding is [continue reading]
Go Metro to see Amgen Tour of California on Saturday in downtown L.A.
The eight-stage Amgen Tour of California bike race began Sunday in Northern California and will reach downtown Los Angeles on Saturday with an individual time trial through the city. Brett Lancaster, of Australia, holds the overall lead after stage two; the racers are today tackling the 113-mile stage between Santa [continue reading]
State set to provide funding for train safety system for Metrolink and Colton Crossing project
The California Transportation Commission is scheduled to vote this week on $91 million in state funding for the Colton Crossing project — a vote that also has implications for the anti-collision rail safety project known as positive train control (PTC). The Commission meets Wednesday and Thursday in Sacramento; here’s the [continue reading]