photo by Rudy Luciani, via his Flickr photostream When the city of Chicago tore out many of its old parking meters, some were left behind for cyclists, as the photo shows. Here’s a good story about the issue at the Transportation Alternatives website. To submit a photo or photos of [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. The U.S.S. Prius (New York Times) Weary of having one soldier killed or wounded for every 24 fuel convoys in Afghanistan — [continue reading]
Blue Line service has returned to normal schedule in time for the Thursday morning commute. Repairs to the damaged catenary wires and a section of track along the Metro Blue Line that restricted trains to every 20 minutes since Monday afternoon were completed in the early morning hours. The section [continue reading]
Normal service according to schedule may return to Blue Line operations in time for the Thursday morning commute. Repairs to the damaged catenary wires and a section of track along the Metro Blue Line that restricted trains to every 20 minutes are nearly complete. Repairs were suspended due to lightning activity for [continue reading]
Power is restored to a section of the Gold Line Eastside Extension where service was delayed between Mariachi Plaza and Maravilla stations. Service is restored to normal operations. What was happening: A lightning strike in downtown Los Angeles a little after 2 p.m. briefly knocked out power in the Red Line [continue reading]
A lightning strike in downtown Los Angeles a little after 2 p.m. briefly knocked out power in the Red Line Rail facility and caused a power loss from Maravilla to Mariachi stations on the Gold Line Eastside Extension. Subway service is not affected. A shuttle train is operating between Atlantic [continue reading]
This is a new feature for The Source in which I express actual opinions while working for government. Members of the media: please take any of these ideas and run with them — we could use the coverage! 1. As I’ve said before, bus lanes certainly sound good – until [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
‘Why You Ride (or Don’t Ride)‘ is a series where you, our faithful readers, share your transportation routines in L.A. and your thoughts on how to make things better – read more about the concept here. Want to share your story? Take the survey here if you ride transit regularly, [continue reading]
One of our goals at The Source is to give attention to novel transportation ideas found elsewhere — whether it’s innovate ways to finance transit projects or finding better ways to share bus schedules with the public. With that in mind, we turn our attention to a transit pass program [continue reading]
