photo by Harold R. Senthee, via his Flickr photostream If it looks like something out of another century, well it is. This is the famous “floating train” of Wuppertal, Germany. It was built in 1900 and is actually a monorail; the idea was to find a transit system that would [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 maintenance work after 8:30pm, northbound trains to Los Angeles will run 7-8 minutes later than regular schedule. Trains from Transit [continue reading]
Due to the ongoing I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project, there will be temporary full closures of I-405 in the construction area from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. for lane restriping and bridge demolition. To get the full details on the closures, please see the press release below. For the latest [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors Operations Committee on Thursday met to consider the proposed June 2011 service changes. A full list of the proposed changes is available here [PDF]. After a line-by-line review of the changes, the Operations Committee voted to forward the proposed bus service changes to the full [continue reading]
Here are our selections this week: Andrew, Hollywood – Why You Ride “I like the subway because I know exactly when it’s coming and when it will get to work.“ Carolyn M, Burbank – Why You Ride “I do not have the money for a car at this time. It’s [continue reading]
[youtube width=”560″ height=”349″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pchZgDuzOCo&feature=player_embedded#at=27[/youtube] Sidelined this year but still want a piece of the action? Make Metro Rail your curbside ticket to the Los Angeles Marathon. Check out the L.A. Marathon’s animated video of the route this year and pick a good spot close to a Metro Rail station. Eight Metro [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. Study finds access to real-time mobile information could raise the status of public transit (Next American City) The results of a study [continue reading]
photo by Kirill Surov, via his Flickr photostream A nice warm weather photo of a ferry on Lake Ontario in Toronto. I think this may be our first photo of a ferry — we tend to run a lot of photos of trains. I’ll have to remedy that, as there [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. Downtown L.A. St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Bus Detours Lines 37, 70, 71, 76, 78, 79, 96, 378, 485, 487 & 770 will be on [continue reading]
This is the second story in our series examining how L.A. County’s 30/10 financing model could help other cities around the country. On the eve of the 21st Century, the citizens of Salt Lake City cut the ribbon on their first light rail project, a 15-mile line connecting downtown to [continue reading]
