Friendly reminder: service changes go into effect on Sunday. Art of Earthly Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (@metrolosangeles) More about the project here. Art of (Space) Transit: From the NASA website: Middle school students programmed a camera aboard the [continue reading]
Enjoy the holidays at Union Station with the free Cocoa Concert series taking place on Fridays this December. The concerts will be held on the Union Station South Patio from [continue reading]
All Service Councils voted to go dark in December except for the South Bay Service Council, which was unable to meet last month due to the Veterans Day holiday. The South Bay Council will meet at its regularly scheduled time this Friday, Dec. 9 at 9:30 a.m. The Council’s agenda includes these [continue reading]
Art of Transit: check out the fancy new ‘bike hotel’ at a train station in Lillestrøm, Norway. L.A. subway commuters encounter bag searches, heavily armed deputies as city responds to terrorism [continue reading]
As a member of the team that monitors Metro’s social media, I’ve noticed of late more people taking to Twitter to report various issues they encounter on our system. This is unsurprising as we’ve recently extended the Expo and Gold lines and cell service for Sprint and Verizon users is [continue reading]
Final Update, 7:30 p.m.: All train service is being restored. Customers can expect residual delays through 8:15 p.m. as we work to get trains back on normal schedule. Rail service on the Metro Blue Line is currently running with 15 minute delays due to a train-person incident that occurred at approximately 6:25 p.m. [continue reading]
Work on the Metro Regional Connector is marching on. Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, December 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., traffic lanes at the 2nd St. and Spring St. intersection in [continue reading]
ICYMI: Parts of a mastodon and maybe a mammoth were found while digging the Purple Line Extension at Wilshire and La Brea. Here’s the post with some cool pics. Measure M update: yes, votes are still being counted from the election held 22 days ago. Here’s today’s update from the Los [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: Things to look at whilst transiting: fun photo essay at the New Yorker Photo Booth blog on cars [continue reading]
Election update: The L.A. County Registrar is still counting votes but is nearing the finish line. Here is the latest update on Measure M, which continues to be well over [continue reading]
