I like to assume there’s a certain percentage of our readership that loves long-ish federal government reports on federal government redundancy (everyone knows local government is perfect!) In that spirit, here’s an item for you from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Government Accountability Office Issues Broad Report [continue reading]
Thanks to Rebecca, Kathryn and the other good people at the Google Research | Structured Data Group, a map I created to show the distribution of Americans living in urban areas for a story about the need to fund urban mass transit is now fully functional. If I don’t say [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. Backfire! With Cleaner Cars, People Drive More (Treehugger) In Sweden, the law of unintended consequences is on full display. The country prides [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. Red/Purple Lines At Westlake/MacArthur Station, due to necessary elevator maintenance work, the elevator located between the street and mezzanine level will be out of [continue reading]
I know that many readers of The Source have been asking about this recently, so here’s some good news: Metro today began testing a real-time bus arrival system called Nextrip. It’s important to consider that this is a test, with Metro tech staffers monitoring some users to see how the [continue reading]
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday adopted a new plan to expand the network of bike lanes and bike-friendly streets in the nation’s second-largest city to 1,680 miles — about 1,000 more miles than contemplated in the previous bike plan adopted in 1996. Officials held a news conference today [continue reading]
As many of you already know, Metro is pursuing federal legislation to speed up construction of Measure R projects. The plan as originally conceived was called the 30/10 Initiative — meaning it seeks to build 30 years of Measure R projects in 10 years with the use of federal loans [continue reading]
photo from Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page I thought we’d get historical for today’s photo. This is a view north of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, taken from Olympic Boulevard. The photo was taken in 1940 and there are a couple of things interesting to me: the first [continue reading]
The power point presentation for the station advisory group meetings held over the past couple of months for the Westside Subway Extension. It provides a good overview of the issues involved with designing the stations along the line, including such issues as station art, portal locations and connections to other [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. If congestion pricing is so great, why don’t businesses do it? (The Atlantic) The writer argues that most people don’t want to [continue reading]
