I’m back from a few days of intense study of the water quantity content of snowflakes in the Eastern Sierra and found all sorts of goodies in this morning’s transportation headlines, compiled by the Metro library. If you’re looking to ease your brain into the workday, I would start with [continue reading]
Even though I visit the Experience LA website every week to help compile our Go Metro Weekends guide, I didn’t find out about their awesome new Google maps mashup until last week when LAist had a post about it. Granted, the map has only been around for a few weeks, [continue reading]
The Metro Board has called for an audit of the agency’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. The DBE program attempts to create a fair and level playing field for small businesses competing for federally funded contracts. Board members believe an audit is necessary to review the program and find ways [continue reading]
With the new Metro Gold Line extension to East Los Angeles as an inspirational backdrop, low-income students living near the alignment have been taught by a Metro planner how to put the trains to work in creating a community vision that will transcend poverty and gang violence. Twenty-four students from [continue reading]
Metro is really getting into the holiday spirit. We already mentioned you can ride free on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, but Metro has also announced that trains will run all night on New Year’s Eve. Here’s the skinny: trains will run every 20 minutes from 9 p.m. on [continue reading]
The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has released its 2009 California High Speed Rail Business Plan to the public. The big news? Projected costs have increased to $42.6 billion and fares are expected to be 83% the cost of typical airfare. On their blog, the CHSRA says the $9 [continue reading]
In the cosmic scheme of things, it’s not a lot of money, but the House of Representatives has set aside $250,000 for further study of a streetcar system in downtown Los Angeles, according to a press release issued by L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar. The project is still very much in [continue reading]
While many people enjoy taking Metro to discover ethnic enclaves in Los Angeles, for my special needs son and I, culture is secondary. Food and bookstores drive us. Still, after taking the Metro Gold Line umpteen times to Pasadena and trekking down Colorado Boulevard to Vroman’s Bookstore, SoCal’s oldest and [continue reading]
David, a Source reader, recently emailed with this question about the project to add a northbound carpool lane to the 405 freeway over the Sepulveda Pass. He wrote: Why does the Mulholland bridge over the 405 have to be replaced? There is plenty of room to run the Northbound on-ramp [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”338″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUVoEEipDpg[/youtube] By now I think we’re all aware of the culinary delights that await Metro riders traveling into East L.A. on the the new Gold Line extension. But last week Metro Media Relations released a press release that caught my eye (and my appetite) with a list of [continue reading]
