As many of you know, the position of Chair of the Metro Board rotates between directors each year to enhance representation of all L.A. County geographic areas. Today Diane DuBois, from Lakewood in the Gateway Cities, becomes chair for fiscal year 2013-14. Here’s the release: City of Lakewood Councilmember Diane [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access viaemail subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. BART strike: Commuters find creative ways to get to [continue reading]
First, thank you to everyone for reading the blog — we appreciate your eyeball time and your interest in local government and transportation. Second, I’ll be away from the blog until mid-July. My colleagues will put some posts up while I’m gone and then I’ll jump back into the blog [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Casden agrees to downsize [continue reading]
Several bus lines will be detoured between the hours of 5 a.m. until 1 p.m. or while barricades are in place due to the Pasadena Marathon race event on Sunday June 30. Metro Bus lines impacted by the street closures include: 180, 181, 256, 686, and 687. To avoid any [continue reading]
Obama outlines ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases (New York Times) President Obama, trying to fulfill a campaign promise, explains executive orders he will issue to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that are blamed for climate change. It’s a relevant issue here, as greenhouse gases are created [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. L.A. County cities fight over Metro plans for new [continue reading]
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/68257544 w=500&h=281] Freewaves.org and out-the-window.org posted this on vimeo. Nice. Need more info about getting to CicLAvia on Metro? Here’s our earlier post.
I’m guessing most of you are already fully aware that CicLAvia is coming to Wilshire Boulevard on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. between downtown L.A. and Fairfax Avenue along the Miracle Mile. Wilshire will be closed to car traffic and turned over to cyclists and pedestrians. I’m guessing [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Ten minutes with tunnel boring machines that tweet (Engineering [continue reading]
