Your daily dose of transportation headlines, compiled by the Metro Library, has arrived. Did you know you can follow @MetroLibrary on Twitter? Here are my favorite stories from today’s round-up: Google announced that they will soon be adding “Bike There” directions to Google Maps. How exactly this would work is [continue reading]
Two projects — an extension of the Green Line and the Crenshaw Corridor — got a wee bit of a boost in the Metro Board of Directors’ planning committee on Wednesday afternoon. First, the committee asked for a more detailed environmental study on an extension of the Green Line to [continue reading]
With the opening of the Eastside Gold Line, I’ve noticed some confusion in the media about a related project: the downtown regional connector. One story in a prominent newspaper whose name I shall not speak said the connector would still require passengers from East L.A. to transfer to reach the [continue reading]
I recently took a tour of Metro’s Bus Operations Control Center, simply known as the BOC, and discovered a small collection of dedicated men and women who work 24/7 to keep Metro’s massive bus system running as smoothly as possible. Seriously, these guys are like the Spartans from the film [continue reading]
The Metro Library reminds me a lot of the Cincinnati Bengals: the library shows no quit, rounding up headlines much like the Bengals squash the Pittsburgh Steelers. A few headlines caught my eye today. A post on the California High Speed Rail blog takes a look at a dispute that [continue reading]
As part of his daily email that he sends to staff, Metro CEO Art Leahy wrote the following about the opening this past weekend of the Gold Line Eastside Extension. In the second paragraph, he also discusses some extra safety precautions that are being taken along the line: During the [continue reading]
As more people are getting the chance to ride the Eastside Gold Line, a couple of questions keep popping up: Question #1: Why does the train go so slow over the bridge over the Hollywood Freeway? Answer: The train is restricted to a 15 mph speed limit because of two [continue reading]
Yesterday Metro installed a Gold Line “Now Boarding” billboard on the parking garage of the Sierra Madre Villa Station at the northern terminus of the light rail line. The parking garage is on the northern side of the 210 freeway and the large billboard faces the thousands of motorists who [continue reading]
You may have heard the story by now, as it’s predictably making the rounds of the local media: a couple of guys nabbed a cell phone off a restaurant table in Little Tokyo on Monday evening and apparently used the new Eastside Gold Line as their getaway vehicle. Monday, of [continue reading]
In 2002, Metro decentralized its bus operations — basically splitting Los Angeles County into five service sectors. The idea, in part, was to create closer ties to the communities served by the agency. It appears now that the agency is going to re-centralize some of those operations both as a [continue reading]
