Bicycle Friendly Business Districts (BFBD) promote and provide incentives for residents and visitors to make local trips by bike. Discounts or amenities may be offered at businesses for bike riders. [continue reading]
It has been 25 years since significant changes were made to the Metro Bus system. In response to changing travel patterns and public demand, Metro is in the midst of [continue reading]
Take a little more transit and eat a little less meat — two things you can do to reduce your impact on the environment. In this installment of Meatless Mondays [continue reading]
Therese is Metro’s chief planner. Good conversation on Black Kids in Outer Space. Dept. of NextGen Bus Study: Metro is in the midst of a study to restructure its bus network. This online tool allows you to rank your priorities, basically along the lines of more frequency on some corridors [continue reading]
Metro’s Office of Civil Rights, Customer Care and ITS departments are working to enhance the customer experience via new multilingual comment forms to assist those with limited English proficiency. Those [continue reading]
FINAL UPDATE: repairs have been completed and Green Line will run regular service on Monday, Aug. 27. UPDATE, 1 a.m. Aug. 25: Service to all stations will resume with start of service on Saturday, Aug. 25. Trains share one track between Vermont/Athens and Crenshaw/105 as repair work continues. Trains will [continue reading]
Here’s the press release from Metro: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) held an event today with state and federal officials and local stakeholders to announce the start [continue reading]
UPDATE, Aug. 24: this work has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a future date. On Sunday, August 26 from open until 4 p.m. there will be no Gold [continue reading]
Here is the news release from the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority: First Contract for Foothill Gold Line Light Rail Extension is Completed Under Budget and Ahead of Schedule An Early [continue reading]
Update, 6:27 a.m.: Trains are departing the downtown Los Angeles rail yard but it will take a while to get Red/Purple Line service back to normal. Thank you for your patience and patronage! RED/PURPLE LINE: Power restored, trains resuming normal service with major residual delays thru 7am. Supplementary buses continue [continue reading]
