We’ve listed a lot of free events this weekend including indie music performances in downtown Los Angeles, spirited human rights discussions in East L.A. and the story of Chinese food in the West over at the Central Library. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email [continue reading]
Now you can follow Amtrak on Twitter and find out what’s up with our nation’s passenger rail service in 140 character snippets. Amtrak joins a growing number of transportation providers (Metro included) that are embracing social media as a way to connect with customers. Like most large organizations hopping on [continue reading]
When voters approved Measure R in 2008, they were voting for a plan that proposed to raise sales taxes in Los Angeles County by a half-cent for 30 years. In return, voters would get about $40 billion in transit, road and other transportation improvements. But not $40 billion of fixes [continue reading]
Thousands of visual reminders of history are stored on the Metro Library Flickr site. Tucked among the historic photos is a shot of a few weekly passes from the 1930s, showing that many Los Angeles Railway tickets were small works of art. Some simply reminded riders not to forget Mother’s Day. [continue reading]
There is a public hearing tonight in El Monte to discuss the environmental study of the ExpressLanes project, which will convert the carpool lane on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways into a lane single-occupant vehicles can use for a toll (most carpoolers will continue to travel for free). [continue reading]
Google announced today that it’s offering yet another transportation mode to its robust Google Maps tool set. Now bicyclists will be able to get turn-by-turn directions in the familiar Google style that drivers, pedestrians and transit users have grown accustomed to. In addition, a new graphical layer has been added [continue reading]
It’s no secret that train platforms built in the middle of freeways are not exactly quiet places. Neon Tommy has a smart story about attempts to provide some relief to patrons of the Gold Line, which has three stations parked in the middle of an extremely busy stretch of the [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension launched a new Facebook page last week — a good way for Facebookers to easily get information about the project mixed in with status updates from friends and others. Think of it this way: At the same time it’s possible to learn your best buddy just [continue reading]
Okay, we know from the photo ID that this bus is coming in from a turnout at Vermont, heading west/north on a Hollywood Freeway shockingly free of cars and structures. What we don’t know is when. Anyone have a guess? (The cars should be a clue.) The only thing that [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source where 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. This past week was a [continue reading]
