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. Bus Rider’s Union Launches Attack on 30/10 in Effort to Fight Fare Hikes (Streetsblog LA) Streetsblog LA is officially back, and one [continue reading]
UPDATE 7:35pm: The links to the surveys weren’t working. They’ve been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Due to the tech difficulties we ran into today, I’m going to hold off posting any survey results today, but I’ll double up on it tomorrow for your reading pleasure. In the meantime you [continue reading]
Here’s a last minute deal for some WNBA Playoff action this weekend. From the promoters: The Sparks are in the WNBA playoffs for the third consecutive season and we want our transit partners to be there with us! Come to STAPLES Center as the Sparks take on conference rival Seattle [continue reading]
As some of you may already know, technical difficulties knocked The Source offline yesterday evening and it took much of Thursday to make the necessary repairs. Our apologies for any inconvenience to readers and we’ll hopefully be posting at our normal pace soon.
photo by Alan Grinberg, via Flickr As I’ve written before, I don’t want to limit our ‘art of transit’ posts to just buses and trains. The point is to capture the many ways people get from Point A to Point B. Such as backpacking. In this lovely photo from the [continue reading]
Members of the United Transportation Union (UTU), which represents Metro bus and train operators, schedule makers and schedule checkers, voted Wednesday to give their leadership strike authorization authority. No one has called for a strike. Metro continues to negotiate with the UTU and our other major labor unions representing mechanics, [continue reading]
Some good news for the future Crenshaw/LAX Line, one of the new light rail lines that Metro is currently planning: The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $1.45-million grant to help design an intermodal transit center for the Aviation/Century station near LAX. The grant was originally supposed to go to [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]
It’s been a while (June 2009 in fact) since Metro broke ground on the Metro Orange Line Extension, the first official major project to leave the starting gate following voter-approval of Measure R in 2008. It’s now time to provide a progress report on construction, and from all indications, construction [continue reading]
For the next few days we’re going to be shining the spotlight on the finalists of the Transit Flicks Video Contest, hopefully encouraging you to view all the videos and to vote for your favorite. In the spirit of neutrality I’ll be presenting the videos in reverse alphabetical order based [continue reading]
