#BREAKING: @metrolosangeles blue line service btwn #Compton & #Florence at a halt after train hits car. 2 people in car injured. #NBC4 pic.twitter.com/Ys7521gf4v — Joe Studley (@JoeStudley) April 21, 2017 UPDATE 7 p.m.: Trains are now running on both tracks and normal Blue Line service has resumed between Florence and [continue reading]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today celebrated the end of tunnel excavation for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. Harriet, the tunnel boring machine (TBM), completed digging the second [continue reading]
That’s right, I’m going to use photos of cute critters threatened by climate change to guilt you into riding the bus and/or train every now and then (if you don’t [continue reading]
Dept. of Nasal-Minded Innovations: The plans are to install the deodorizers in every rail car — four per car. The deodorizers have charcoal granules in them that are designed to absorb [continue reading]
One of the big transit challenges involving downtown L.A. is this: it’s big. Really big. Our downtown more or less runs from the 10 to the 101 and [continue reading]
Metro Purple Line Extension workers excavating the future subway station at Wilshire and La Brea Avenue in L.A.’s Miracle Mile District have unearthed the station’s second Ice Age fossils: a [continue reading]
There is a lot happening in the above map, which is new and covers the many projects happening at Union Station or in the nearby neighborhood. Here are brief descriptions [continue reading]
Earth Day is Saturday and Metro is helping everybody be ultra-friendly to Mama Earth by offering free bike share rides in downtown Los Angeles. Biking is pretty much a zero-emission [continue reading]
Take a little more transit and eat a little less meat — two things you can do to reduce your environmental impact. In this installment of Meatless Mondays with Metro, we visit SO-CAL Burgers Chill & Grill, a [continue reading]
Heads up Tuesday morning commuters with good cell connections: NASA is showing a live rocket launch online in a 360-degree format. “Launch is targeted for Tuesday, April 18 during a [continue reading]
