The final environmental document for Phase 2 of the Expo Line light rail project from Culver City to Santa Monica was released today with several key changes. The entire final environmental impact report is on the Expo Line Construction Authority website and a press release from the Authority is after [continue reading]
EGPNews.com takes a closer look at Eastside Gold Line safety and the Metro Board’s decision to speed up the process of installing safety gates along the new line. Many residents along the line showed up to last week’s meeting of the Metro Board to ask that a lengthy environmental impact [continue reading]
Metro has released ridership numbers for November and there’s relatively little news to report. Rail ridership across the system increased slightly from Nov. 2008 — due to the opening of the Eastside Gold Line Extension — and bus ridership dipped from one year earlier. Metro officials believe the weak economy [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”486″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5D50U2UMUg[/youtube] The Source has yet to ride the new Silver Line (don’t worry, we will soon) but Metro Community Relations was there on opening day and took this video. Check out the sleek buses (NABI 45C-LFW, for you transit geeks), thoughts from passengers, and footage of the bus [continue reading]
Remember all those stories about soaring mass transit use in the summer of 2008, when gas prices soared? Well, here are the first two paragraphs of a story published by the New York Times: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a punishing slate of service cuts on Wednesday that would amount [continue reading]
As I posted last month, the funding game for the Westside Subway Extension and the Downtown Regional Connector projects was shifting from Los Angeles County to Washington D.C. Now it’s official. Earlier this month, Metro CEO Art Leahy submitted a formal request for $77.6 million to the federal government, with [continue reading]
Warm-up your eyeballs. A lot of really good transpo stories out there today. The L.A. Times’ Rich Connell reports that Metrolink and other commuter railroads sought and were granted a federal waiver more than a decade ago to bypass a rule requiring them to post speed limit signs in certain [continue reading]
Metro employees this morning donated more then 2,000 gifts for children and needy families served by the Fred Jordan Mission in downtown Los Angeles. The event took place at the entrance to Metro’s Gateway headquarters where pre-school children from the Metro Day Care Center, the Metro Choir and volunteers helped [continue reading]
The Source last week reported slight delays on the Metro Blue Line due to a vehicular accident that damaged trackside signal equipment in Compton. Here’s a link to an earlier post about the incident. Repair work will not be done this upcoming weekend as initially reported. Metro Rail Operations says [continue reading]
This morning Metro CEO Art Leahy signed off on running all night service on the Metro Orange Line this New Year’s Eve. The Orange Line busway will join its steel-wheeled Metro Rail brethren (the Red, Purple, Blue, Green and Gold Lines) in offering this special 24-hour service to Metro riders. [continue reading]
