Metro Mentions is a feature on The Source where we highlight advertisements we’ve stumbled upon that include Metro access information. Why? In this car-culture town, when local businesses and community organizations voluntarily go out of their way to include transit information in their ads, it raises awareness and informs people [continue reading]
The Crenshaw Line light rail project isn’t scheduled to open until 2018 but the project is taking a small step forward today with the beginning of soil testing along the route. A fair amount of earth has to be moved as part of the project and, henceforth, Metro officials must [continue reading]
The Infrastructurist offers up a list of the 10 most expensive transit projects in the U.S. over the past decade — although the website reserves judgment on whether the cost was worth it. Not surprisingly, all of them are rail lines. The Red Line subway clocked in at No. 5 [continue reading]
Metro’s contractor plans to place additional k-rail on the right-hand shoulder of the I-405 Freeway as part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project. Work will only be conducted on the I-405 between the I-10 and U.S. 101, and is scheduled to begin Monday, March 8 and last for about [continue reading]
There was a fairly sizable ceremony held today at Evergreen Cemetery to dedicate a memorial wall for remains of immigrants found during construction of the Eastside Gold Line Extension. The remains were first discovered in June 2005 at First and Lorena streets in Boyle Heights. Construction was halted and ultimately [continue reading]
The Boston Globe has an opinion piece that calls for the end of the anti-urban bias in national politics. For those who doubt such a thing exists, one only has to look at national subsidies of highways, homeownership and suburban school system – all of which lure families out of [continue reading]
The Metro Blue Line resumes normal operations at the start of service on Monday morning. Blue Line trains were not running in downtown Los Angeles this weekend due to construction that will eventually tie the future Expo Line into existing Blue line tracks. Drivers take note. The eastbound 18th Street [continue reading]
Observant readers will have noticed a couple of new items included on today’s Go Metro Weekends roundup: Metro Art Tours. These free tours, put on by the Metro Art Docent Council, celebrated their 10th anniversary last year. Metro says that over 25,000 visitors and Angelenos have gone on the art [continue reading]
There’s so much Metro accessible stuff going on this weekend it’s a wonder anyone thinks they need a car to have fun in L.A. Friday and Saturday are chock full of events, from concerts to pre-Oscars screenings and discussions. Plus, don’t forget to make time on Saturday or Sunday to [continue reading]
The headline of the LA Weekly story is certainly provocative: “Black Lung Lofts.” The story focuses on whether residential housing should be built adjacent to freeways in Los Angeles despite studies that have shown that poor air quality near the roads impacts childrens’ health. As the headline indicates, the Weekly [continue reading]
