Metro Bus service will be impacted on Friday, October 22, around the USC-Coliseum area during the mid-morning hours due to President Barack Obama’s visit to Los Angeles. The Metro Bus lines most likely to be detoured will be lines 40, 42 and 740 on Martin Luther King Boulevard, 102 and [continue reading]
Not much in the way of news to report from Metro headquarters today. As expected, the Metro Board of Directors’ Measure R committee forwarded the draft studies and routes proposed by Metro staff to the full Board of Directors. The full Board is scheduled to vote on both projects at [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors is scheduled Oct. 28 — next Thursday — to vote on a route for the Westside Subway Extension and to consider the draft environmental study for the project. The vote will determine what route is examined in the final environmental study, which is required before [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. A new Expo Line video (Curbed LA) The video was produced by Gökhan Esirgen of The Transit Coalition and is a nice [continue reading]
photo by (c) Tatsuo Fukutomi, via Flickr A quiet subway stop near the National Stadium in Tokyo on a recent October evening. 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 we’ve featured can be seen in [continue reading]
Blue Line Due to Expo construction work after 8:15pm, trains run every 30 minutes. Northbound trains leave Transit Mall at 8:16pm, 8:46pm and every 30 minutes through 10:46pm, then 11:21pm. Trains from Transit Mall to Wardlow leave at 11:43pm, 12:13am, 12:43am, 1:18am, 1:25am and 1:43am. Southbound trains leave 7th St./Metro [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors’ planning committee voted this afternoon to accept staff recommendations for both the Regional Connector and Westside Subway Extension Project draft environmental studies. The draft studies are scheduled to be considered by the Measure R committee on Thursday and by the full Board of Directors on [continue reading]
With these words, U.S.D.O.T Under-Secretary Roy Kienitz made it official on Wednesday morning: “On behalf of President Obama, I’m here to present you with a loan of $546 million.” As many of you already know, Senator Barbara Boxer announced last Friday that the federal loan would help speed the building [continue reading]
It was one year today that we launched The Source on the Metro website, hoping to better explain government to the people who pay for it: you. Here’s my first post, explaining what we were shooting for on The Source. And here’s Fred’s first post, explaing his ambitions to cover [continue reading]
I know there was thunder and lightning south of the San Gabriel Mountains last evening. But it was nothing compared to the lightning display in the Mojave Desert along U.S. 395 and California 14 last night — a show I got to see while returning from a long weekend in [continue reading]
