Metro debuted its redesigned web page in February with a fresh new aesthetic and a completely reengineered back-end. That back-end stuff is important because it changed Metro’s website from a rather bloated collection of thousands of static HTML pages that were difficult to update and manage to a modern Content [continue reading]
[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPxeKu5otZc[/youtube] Last month students from the Braille Institute’s Los Angeles Center spent the morning with Metro for a special event called “Getting Around Town with Metro” as part of Braille’s Solutions in Sight public education campaign. A group of thirty visually impaired students had the chance to ride [continue reading]
Metro Bus service will be detoured tomorrow, Tuesday, April 13, in downtown Los Angeles due to the funeral service of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and Marine Sergeant Major Robert Cottle, to be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. LAPD SWAT officer Cottle was killed while [continue reading]
A safety upgrade to the Gold Line Eastside Extension was completed last week when the final segment of fencing was installed along the tracks. The fencing, along the street-running portions of the line, is designed to discourage jaywalkers from crossing the tracks outside of designated crosswalks. There is similar fencing [continue reading]
Point your browser to the Regional Connector’s Ustream channel (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/regional-connector-community-update-meeting) today at noon to watch today’s Community Update Meeting via a live stream. The meeting – which goes until 1:30 p.m. – covers the latest progress on the Draft EIS/R for the project which now includes a fully grade-separated alternative. [continue reading]
Both the Regional Connector and Westside Subway have community meetings coming up – but this time you don’t actually have to be there in person to follow the action. Metro will be making use of new social media technologies – Ustream and Twitter – to connect the community to the [continue reading]
Our four part series on Blue Line safety garnered a lot of great feedback, some of which we’ll be featuring in this special edition of Reader email. If you need a refresher, here are links to the entire series: Part I: Engineering safety into the Blue Line Part II: Enforcement [continue reading]
Last December, Metro launched its official Facebook page in an attempt to better communicate with customers and taxpayers using the ubiquitous social networking tool. By the end of 2009 Metro had a few hundred fans on Facebook. This past weekend Metro’s Facebook page topped 2,000 fans and the number keeps [continue reading]
Just in time for a rainy commute, the Blue Line powers up for the start of service at 4 a.m. Downtown Blue Line stations — Washington, Grand, Pico/Chick Hearn, 7th Metro Center — were closed to allow for construction of the Expo light rail line. Rail service from Long Beach [continue reading]
They’re at it again … working on linkage between the Blue Line and the Exposition Light-Rail Line. Yes, it’s a temporary annoyance but won’t it be great when the east/west line to Culver City is completed? The delays mean the two lines, which will share track between Washington and 7th [continue reading]
