The Daily News on Sunday ran a story about the gates recently installed at some Metro rail stations and TAP cards and now several media outlets are showing some interest. The gist of the Daily News’ story was that Metro spent $46 million on the gates and $154 million to [continue reading]
Matt Raymond, Metro’s Chief Communications Officer, issued this response to today’s story in the Daily News about TAP cards and the gating system at Metro rail stations: Chucking Metro’s TAP smart card fare program as some critics suggest is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. TAP is [continue reading]
It’s hard not to notice the marketing blitz in recent months for go511, the five-county effort in So Cal to finally get a lot of important transportation information on one website and phone number. Go511 has everything from freeway traffic conditions to transit planning tools. Go511 gets a very positive [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
