Here’s the email from Metro CEO Art Leahy, sent yesterday to agency staffers: Tomorrow, the full House Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to set its spending levels for government programs for the balance of Fiscal Year 2011. It is expected that the Chairman of the Committee, Harold Rogers (R-KY), will [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. Victims of deadly 2008 Metrolink crash in Chatsworth to meet train execs (Daily News) A $200 million settlement fund for the victims [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 8:15 pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please see schedule [continue reading]
Those of us in the San Fernando Valley know the ease of hopping a bus to laid-back Bob Hope Airport and eliminating the parking expense from our total travel bill. (At $9 a day for even cheaper long-term, that car stay can add up faster than a Southwest ticket to Vegas.) Now [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here [continue reading]
Eighteen motorcycle officers from the Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department spent their morning hours in a special sweep of the area around Blue Line tracks in Long Beach, issuing citations to motorists and pedestrians ignoring safety laws. Police issued 106 citations in just over three [continue reading]
In 2008, Los Angeles County voters approved the Measure R sales tax increase — and, along with it, a long list of transit and road projects to be funded by the half-penny sales tax hike. One of those projects: improving traffic in the area of the 4.5-mile gap in the [continue reading]
photo by dbessam, via Flickr photostream A nice use of black-and-white photography in this image of the escalators in the Wilshire/Vermont station on the Red/Purple Line subway in L.A. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to sourcemetro@gmail.com. The photos [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. Santa Clara County transit to provide free rides for qualified homeless (Mercury News) The Valley Transportation Authority in Santa Clara County approved [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 8:15 pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please see schedule [continue reading]
