photo by lasubwayblog, via Flickr CicLAvia is this Sunday, April 10, and although more than three dozen Metro Bus Lines will be detoured along the nearly eight-mile route that day, Metro is an enthusiastic supporter of the event. L.A. streets will be closed to cars except for key intersections, and [continue reading]
Even as partisan battles rage over the current year’s federal budget and budgets for the years beyond, members of the House of Representative Transportation and Infrastructure Committee met Tuesday tot discuss how best to fund transportation in the future. D.C. Streetsblog provided good coverage, noting that there was a lot [continue reading]
photo by Eamonn O’Brien-Strain, via Flickr I love this photograph. The light rail line in Salt Lake City may not be the central image, but it’s an important part of the composition — a diagonal line to counter the diagonals of the building’s darkened windows that run in a different [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 blog. [vimeo width=”600″ height=”340″]http://vimeo.com/10049488[/vimeo] UITP marketing awards: public transport as part of modern urban lifestyle (The City Fix) The above video is part [continue reading]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will be holding a series of Transportation Development Act (TDA) Article 8 Hearing Board Meetings for the use of TDA Article 8 funds in the North County and the City of Avalon. The TDA Article 8 funds are for those areas of [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. Blue Line Due to Expo Late Night Construction after 8:15pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please [continue reading]
It goes without saying that I think this is a very positive development; the more people that government can explain itself to, the better. With nearly 10 million people, Los Angeles County is a diverse place and about 47 percent of the population here is of Latino or Hispanic origin, [continue reading]
It’s been almost a year since our last open call for questions relating to TAP, and since then a few significant milestones have been reached. The most frequently asked question last year was, “Why isn’t there a cash purse available?” As regular readers know, cash purse – officially referred to [continue reading]
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on Tuesday released his proposed “Path to Prosperity” [pdf] federal budget blueprint for the years 2012 to 2021. It cuts federal transportation spending by 31 percent, according to Transportation Weekly. In particular, the proposal seeks to reduce highway and transit spending and would decline to fund [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes to complaints, [continue reading]
