[polldaddy poll=3450510] Attentive readers know that the Westside Subway Extension is scheduled to reach an important milestone later this summer: the release of the project’s draft environmental impact statement/report, otherwise known as a DEIR. The lengthy document looks at the reasons the line should or shouldn’t be built, its impacts [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Something more important than free tickets (LAObserved) Longtime political reporter and editor Bill Boyarsky opines that he doesn’t see what the big hoo-ha is over [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLuXnjiQLk[/youtube] We’re posting some b-roll here in case you missed the parade of flatbeds down Washington Boulevard and the afterglow of work crews dangling an 83-ton transformer from a crane early this morning. The installation of the first of 20 traction power substations — whose job it is to power [continue reading]
Metro officials say that they will release a full report to the agency’s Board of Directors’ Operations Committee next Thursday about the accident on Wednesday in which a Metro Blue Line train struck a Long Beach police vehicle. A Long Beach police officer who was driving the vehicle suffered moderate [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Hollywood and Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? (Huffington Post) Earlier this week in an “art of transit” post I expressed desire for [continue reading]
One of the challenges of building a bullet train in California is that it would be the first of its kind in the United States and all the expertise on how to design, build and operate the trains is currently overseas in Europe and Asia. After the jump is a [continue reading]
This photo has a little of everything: color, contrast and, of course, a cute boy looking away from the camera. It’s one of many striking photos by Takadanobaba Kurazawa on his Flickr photostream. As I’ve been writing on a nearly everyday basis, we’re trying to spruce up The Source with [continue reading]
As usual, lots of stuff going on this weekend and a lot of it is just steps away from a Metro bus or rail line. Need an itinerary? How about: free jazz at LACMA on Friday night, Lotus Festival in Echo Park on Saturday and L.A.’s Bastille Day in Elysian [continue reading]
This one is hardly a shock, as officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority had already been on record as saying the agency would study sharing tracks between L.A. and Anaheim with Metrolink and Amtrak. Nonetheless, the Authority’s Board in a meeting in Los Angeles made it official when they [continue reading]
The colors and framing of this photo by Bill Sutton caught my eye. The caption on Flickr: The only way for Haitian locals to get to Labadee is by boat. The mountains surrounding this private beach on Haiti are nearly impenetrable. This shot taken from the deck of the FREEDOM [continue reading]
