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. The high-speed rail debate continues: A lost cause: The high-speed rail race (Washington Post) Why the Washington Post is wrong about high [continue reading]
photo by Mark Englert, via submission This photo has a nice futuristic tinge to it. Go ahead and see if you can guess where it was taken. The answer is after the jump. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email [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 After 8:15pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please see schedule here. [continue reading]
The Academy Awards are being held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Sunday evening. Some bus detours are already in effect as preparations for the Awards are made and Red Line subway service will be impacted. Here are all the details from the Metro news release: Metro Red Line [continue reading]
Here’s the news release: Metro will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, March 1, and a public hearing on Thursday, March 31, to update the community and to receive verbal comments on the evaluation process of the proposed maintenance facility sites for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Project. Metro [continue reading]
Here’s the webcast from last night’s “710 conversations” meeting in Los Angeles. The entire webcast is about one hour, 20 minutes. The next meeting is Saturday, Feb. 26, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Glendale Community College, 1500 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale. The meeting will also be webcast.
With the news that Metro is purchasing Los Angeles Union Station, I asked Metro followers on Twitter and Facebook yesterday for their suggestions on how to improve the train station. Here’s the first batch that I posted yesterday and below are a bunch more: From Twitter: SabrinaDeep @metrolosangeles we need [continue reading]
Last week, Metro announced on The Source that planners for the Westside Subway Extension were evaluating an alternative location for the Century City station along Santa Monica Boulevard as part of the project’s final environmental review process. Just to be clear, there are still only two options under study for [continue reading]
Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and space constraints limit us from listing every accessible event in this city, but this curated list represents what we think is cool and easy to get to. To plan your trip and to check [continue reading]
Metro has released system-wide ridership data for January 2011 and there is some good news — ridership is up. Compared to Jan. 2010, average weekday boardings increased from 1,324,006 to 1,385,083 in Jan. 2011 on all Metro transit lines combined (bus and rail). This represents a 4.6 percent increase over [continue reading]
