The L.A. Times has an editorial on Metro’s projected $251-million operating deficit in the next fiscal year and offers a proposal on how to fix it — raise fares. The article notes that L.A.’s fares are significantly lower than most U.S. cities and fares only cover about 26% of operating [continue reading]
One of the goals of The Source is to give readers an idea of what’s happening with mass transit and urban planning outside Los Angeles County. In that vein, a fascinating, and sad, story was recently published in the Financial Times about the thousands of stray dogs roaming Moscow. Many [continue reading]
With rain in the forecast for Tuesday, there will be no full freeway closures tonight as part of the project to add a northbound carpool lane to the 405 freeway between the 10 and 101 freeways. The current schedule now has full closures between the 10 and Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading]
Hat tip to one of my favorite blogs, The Bus Bench, for posting a link to this video on their Facebook page. The video from Planet Green has car-free author and correspondent Chris Balish getting around Los Angeles on his bike and Metro buses. Chris, who wrote a book in [continue reading]
I really should have been a scientist. Fox News reports that slime mold expands in a way that mimics road and rail networks and that slime mold is perhaps better at building such networks than, say, urban planners. In other words, give me a map and some slime mold and [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy included this item in his daily email to staff on Friday: Proposed Second Federal Stimulus Bill On December 16, 2009, the House passed a second fiscal stimulus bill, H.R. 2847. The Senate will begin consideration of their version of a stimulus bill later this month and [continue reading]
Gold Line trains are running full service from East L.A. to Pasadena on normal Sunday schedule . Tracks are cleared and repairs to power line structure damaged by fallen tree in Highland Park on Friday morning were completed and fully tested by 7:35 a.m.
Service on the Gold Line continues with a 20-minute delay as a traction and power crew works to repair damage to the catenary system just north of the Highland Park station. Trains are running on a single-track between Southwest Museum station in Mt. Washington and Mission station in South Pasadena [continue reading]
Due to ongoing rains, night-time construction activity, including full freeway segment closures scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled. Surface conditions will be too wet for restriping work. The contractor will likely proceed with work on the evening of Monday, January 25 from the I-10 Freeway to Santa Monica Blvd. [continue reading]
Gold Line service to all stations has been restored at 1 p.m. Repairs to tracks blocked by a fallen tree have enabled through-service on a single track. Repairs to overhead catenary wires continue until further notice. Until normal service is resumed, which is likely by tomorrow, northbound and southbound trains [continue reading]
