Cambodian New Year is coming up fast and it’s a good excuse to learn to love another Asian cuisine. If you like Thai and Chinese, you should know that Long Beach is home to one of the largest Cambodian communities in the U.S. and has lots of great restaurants to prove [continue reading]
Last week we told you about Metro’s Developer Challenge – your opportunity to create the next great transit app with Metro’s open data and possibly win $2,000. Tonight we’re throwing a kick-off and Q&A event to get all app developer hopefuls up to speed on the specifics of the contest [continue reading]
photo by Dan Macy, via Flickr Here’s a nice slice-of-transit-life photo from…well, go ahead and guess the city. There are abundant clues in the photo. If those don’t help, here’s another one: Police Detective McNulty once trolled these streets. The answer is after the jump. To submit a photo or [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. Villaraigosa and Boxer are joined by GOP and business leaders in call for more federal transportation money (Los Angeles Times) Which Way [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 Construction, beginning at 8:15pm trains run every 30 minutes. Please see schedule here. Dates: through Thursday. Gold Line Due to vehicle testing after [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — who also serves on the Metro Board of Directors — is in Washington D.C. today for a news conference to promote the America Fast Forward plan. As many Metro customers are aware, it takes time — often years and years of time — to [continue reading]
The Wall Street Journal has posted a provocative graphic showing the misery index for large cities around the U.S. The index was calculated using three factors: unemployment, an increase in gas prices and a change in home values. The least five miserable cities in order, according to the WSJ: Boston, [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. House committee outlines plans for transportation legislation (National League of Cities) Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation [continue reading]
photo by smoovebert, via Flickr I found this photo on Flickr of one of those long, character-less hallways at Los Angeles International Airport. The image was taken in 2006 with a Pentax Optio point-and-shoot and processed with Photoshop. As I’ve written before, I define “transit” loosely for our “art of [continue reading]
Work continues on the draft environmental study of extending the Green Line from Redondo Beach to a new transit center in Torrance, as well as other possible options for improving transportation in the South Bay area. Here’s the news release on the next round of community meetings, which begin April [continue reading]
