Culver City recently released an iPhone application that lets residents report city issues – potholes, graffiti, noise – directly to City officials. Users can simply snap a photo of the issue, choose which category it fits in, GPS location data is automatically included and with the click of a button [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met this morning at agency headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The agenda was on the light side compared with recent months, but some decisions were made on a few key items: •In response to a motion by County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Los Angeles Mayor [continue reading]
A female conductor, called a “conductorette” in the attached vintage caption, poses on Spring Street in downtown L.A. with a special Los Angeles Railway Car decorated for a WW II bond drive. Note the Hall of Records behind on the left and the Hall of Justice on the right. Some [continue reading]
Full-time students attending Pasadena City College (PCC) will soon be eligible to receive heavily discounted Metro passes – $30 for unlimited travel on all Metro bus and rail lines for an entire semester. Part of Metro’s I-Pass program, this new partnership will bring affordable transit to 8,800 community college students. [continue reading]
Officials on Wednesday heralded a new day for bike-to-transit integration with the opening of two new BikeStations on transit lines, an innovative solution likely to be eyed very closely in other cities. Bikestation Claremont and BikeStation Covina, both located at stations on Metrolink’s San Bernardino Line, are fundamentally different than [continue reading]
Here’s a tale of two stories about Americans getting around these days. On one hand, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign reports that new data from the National Household Travel Survey shows that walking, bicycling, and transit trips are up by over 20% and driving is down by at least 4% since [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors have their monthly meeting at Metro headquarters in downtown Thursday at 9:30 a.m. I’ll be there to cover the meeting and here’s quick look at the agenda and some of the decisions the Board is scheduled to make: Item 5 expands the draft environmental impact [continue reading]
Last Friday was a busy one at One Gateway, Metro’s headquarters in Los Angeles. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Sen. Barbara Boxer were here for a town hall meeting and Metro also hosted its first bicycle roundtable, which I missed. The idea, in essence, was for Metro to listen [continue reading]
More work needs to be done to tie the Expo Line and Blue Line together in downtown Los Angeles. The tracks from the two lines will merge at Washington and Flower. That means that work needs to be done and there will be delays up to 30 minutes on Blue [continue reading]
Looks like the ante may soon be upped in the war on distracted driving: a bill in Sacramento would quintuple the fines for driving-and-texting and also extend the no texting ban to cyclists, reports the Sacramento Bee. Don’t laugh. I’ve actually seen cyclists thumb-tapping away while pedaling down some busy [continue reading]
