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]
If you are now in possession of a citation for violating traffic and pedestrian laws around the Blue Line, don’t complain — you weren’t warned! As we posted last week on The Source in our series on Blue Line safety, there would soon be a sweep of the line by [continue reading]
First off, I’d like to disclose that I’m not a regular Blue Line rider. Nor do I live or work in an area where I have to cross tracks of the Blue Line on a regular basis. I do ride the Blue Line, typically when I make an occasional trip [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDyV9AklSY[/youtube] I have already posted about the engineering challenges of making the Blue Line safe and enforcement of traffic and pedestrian laws along the Blue Line. To quickly summarize: the line is heavily ridden, safety improvements have been made, the overall accident rate has been dropping and there have been [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSxDvpXAlA[/youtube] I posted yesterday about one of the toughest issues facing Metro: reducing the number of fatalities along the Blue Line. While there has been progress in this area — the number of train-motor vehicle collisions has dropped significantly — the agency wants to keep making the line as safe [continue reading]
In July of this summer, the Blue Line will turn 20 years old. The last streetcars rolled through Los Angeles in the early 1960s; it wasn’t until the Blue Line’s debut in 1990 that mass transit rail service returned to the region. In January, the Blue Line saw nearly 78,000 [continue reading]
A south bound Metro Blue Line train was involved in an accident about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday involving a pedestrian at the 1St Street Station in Long Beach. Preliminary reports indicate that a woman was hit by the train as it approached the station. The Long Beach Fire Department responded and [continue reading]
A strange incident occurred this afternoon on the Line 55 bus in downtown Los Angeles that resulted in pepper spray being discharged and both paramedics and police being summoned. The incident apparently happened about 2:39 p.m. when a couple of people boarded the bus and tried to sell fake jewelry [continue reading]
Metro has begun installing fencing on First Street to help improve safety along the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension. About two miles of fences will be erected along the line by June. The idea is to make it difficult for jaywalkers to try to dash across the tracks. Photo: Luis [continue reading]
In an effort to promote public safety awareness along the Metro Blue Line, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles Police Department today issued 330 citations, 30 warnings and impounded 24 vehicles for 30 days along the street running (non-gated) segment of the light rail line between Washington Station [continue reading]
