I spent Friday at the annual Mobility 21 Transportation Summit, which was held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Mobility 21 is a group made up of businesses and transit agencies that works toward regional transportation improvements in Southern California. As for the summit, it mostly consists of panel discussions [continue reading]
It was one year today that we launched The Source on the Metro website, hoping to better explain government to the people who pay for it: you. Here’s my first post, explaining what we were shooting for on The Source. And here’s Fred’s first post, explaing his ambitions to cover [continue reading]
We recently got the news that Microsoft’s Bing had just released Bing Maps with Metro bus and rail trip information. Microsoft started the service last month — with information initially for 11 major cities, including L.A. Chicago, Minneapolis and New York. It’s fairly obvious that Bing wants to compete with [continue reading]
The Board of Directors of Metrolink are scheduled Friday to vote on a contract worth up to $120 million for the installation of a positive train control system. The contract would be with Parsons Transportation Group. The technology was created to prevent trains from colliding. Metrolink has been pursuing such [continue reading]
In our recent (unscientific) poll of Source readers, 83% report having some sort of smartphone. Android devices are the most popular, just beating out the iPhone. At the same time, over 10% of readers report having no mobile web access at all. Of course, this poll only represents the Source [continue reading]
Next week a $1.65-million contract with NextBus, Inc. for a real-time bus arrival system goes in front of the Metro board for approval. If approved, Metro riders could be receiving real-time bus arrival information via text, cell phone, smartphone and web by early 2011. NextBus currently provides its real-time services [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3765322] So far, with 157 votes as of 10am, our mobile device survey shows that, at least amongst our readers, there are just about as many Android users as there are iPhone users. Metro’s initial iPhone offering met with mixed-reviews but it looks like the numbers may reveal that [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3765322] As Metro beefs up its mobile resources it makes sense to take a look at how transit customers are accessing the mobile web. Metro recently released an iPhone app, and the stats show that the iPhone is the number one mobile device used to access Metro.net – but [continue reading]
Two weeks ago Metro released Build 1.0 of its Go Metro iPhone app – marking the agency’s first foray into the world of smartphones. The news that Metro released an app for Apple’s popular mobile platform certainly nabbed some headlines, but the app itself has received less than enthusiastic reviews [continue reading]
The Go Metro app is available on the iTunes store for free. To get it, simply visit this link or search for ‘Go Metro’ in the App Store. The app is by Usablenet, a Metro contractor. Here’s the description from the app page: Go Metro to work, shopping, schools or [continue reading]
