Caltrans put out a press release Thursday with revised hours and locations for the night-time closures next week on the 405 freeway as part of the project to build a carpool lane between the Santa Monica Freeway and the Ventura Freeway. The release: CORRECTION Northbound I-405 FULL FREEWAY CLOSURES TO [continue reading]
New to The Source is a feature called Metro Minutes, an audio recording that you can click on and hear Metro’s Chief Executive Officer Art Leahy talk about transportation related news and information. In this first edition of Metro Minutes, Art Leahy reflects on the past year at the agency and [continue reading]
If you’re thinking of driving to Pasadena for tonight’s BCS title game, just a reminder that light rail and shuttle service is available. Here are details from a post yesterday on The Source. One other tip: if you don’t want to deal with driving to Pasadena, you can park at [continue reading]
It’s always fun to start the day reading someone really take it to “the man.” And Damien Newton does just that at L.A. Streetsblog, explaining his issues with the city of Los Angeles’ bike master plan. He writes: “I am worried that this isn’t really what can be considered a [continue reading]
Metro is providing extra service on the Gold Line tomorrow to make it easier and cheaper for college football fans to get to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl on January 7th. Before and after the game (which starts at 5:00 p.m.), Gold Line service will [continue reading]
Here’s the press release from Caltrans, hot off the presses. The project involves building a carpool lane on the northbound 405 from the Santa Monica Freeway to the Ventura Freeway. The release: FULL FREEWAY CLOSURES TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK ON I-405 WEST LOS ANGELES – The California Department of Transportation [continue reading]
As you probably know, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered his State of the State address this morning in Sacramento. It’s a runup to his release of the state budget on Friday — a budget that Metro officials are closely watching to see what, if any, the impacts are on public transportation [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”486″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysVPqDV0D0[/youtube] Metro officials estimate that between 61,000 and 65,000 passengers rode the Gold Line on New Year’s Day. Metro provided increased service and heavily promoted the Gold Line as an easy alternative to driving to the Rose Bowl events in Pasadena. This was also the first year residents [continue reading]
One of our New Year’s Resolutions for the Source is to publish reader email on a more frequent basis — ideally we would like to get enough interesting comments to publish them once each week. Send comments to thesource@metro.net. Here is this week’s edition: Riders and transit advocates have been [continue reading]
I love stories about the United State’s waning car culture, like this one featured in Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail. It’s not that I like watching the once powerful auto industry die, it’s just nice to see that many Americans are starting to realize that car ownership is not [continue reading]
