Metro’s MicroTransit project has posted an online survey. The project — which will go by the name Metro Ride — will offer shared, on-demand rides up to 20 minutes in length in service areas to be announced later in the year. Metro is currently working with three firms under contract [continue reading]
The Draft Environmental Impact Report for Metro’s Link Union Station (Link US) project was released Thursday. The report can be read here. Public comment is being accepted from today through March 4 and a public hearing is being held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 29 in the [continue reading]
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by going Metro to the 34th annual Kingdom Day Parade on Monday, Jan. 21. The Expo Line Expo/Western and Expo/Crenshaw stations are just a short [continue reading]
Seattle has more construction cranes than any other U.S. city — again. Here's how the city stacks up against others. https://t.co/yIwpwMGHrp pic.twitter.com/RGNq0cAA3s — The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) January 16, 2019 L.A. gets a Silver Medal! A lot of them, as far as I can tell, are near transit lines. See: [continue reading]
This year’s Women’s March will take place on Saturday, Jan. 19, and turnout is expected to be pretty big. Metro Rail will run enhanced service on all lines from 6 a.m. to [continue reading]
July 8, 2018 was the hottest day on record in Los Angeles. By 2050, Los Angeles will experience longer and more intense heat waves above 105°F. Higher temperatures, along with [continue reading]
Metro has posted a new round of Safetyville videos this week. The idea here is a good one: use stick figures to vividly show the pitfalls of behaving dangerously around trains, which are really big, don’t stop on a dime and extremely worthy of everyone’s respect. The first set of [continue reading]
The Purple Line Extension Transit Project is adding two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to its TBM family! The new additions will join Elsie and Soyeon, the TBMs digging Section [continue reading]
Metro contractors on Monday will begin early work on a project in DTLA that will make it easier to turn around Red/Purple Line trains at Union Station and, thus, improve subway capacity. The project’s formal name is — it’s a mouthful! — the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility. [continue reading]
Welcome back to another installment of Fitness Fridays, where we feature various ways you can combine transit and fitness. In this post, we head to Runyon Canyon Park via the Red [continue reading]
