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, let’s talk about Veggie Grill, a [continue reading]
A motion calling for further study of possible Arts District stations for the Red/Purple Line in downtown Los Angeles will be considered by the Metro Board of Directors this month. [continue reading]
[scribd id=336494884 key=key-oNROpTNU0Apyt7ZrgyY7 mode=scroll] Click here for pdf for download and printing. Attachments to the report are here. With $1.6 billion in federal funding secured to extend the Metro Purple Line subway to Century City, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is now poised to recommend the international [continue reading]
Eat Shop Play Local As L.A. Metro builds $8 billion of new rail lines in Los Angeles County, we created Eat Shop Play as a unique program to lessen the [continue reading]
Here’s the announcement from Metro: Held in Coordination with the Historic Cultural Neighborhood Council Urban Design/Land Use Committee (HCNC UD/LUC) Metro is designing a new Emergency Security Operations Center facility in the Los Angeles Arts District. The three-story structure with at-grade parking will serve as the Emergency Operations Center and [continue reading]
The 32nd Annual Kingdom Day Parade will be held this Monday, Jan. 16 beginning at 10 a.m. The parade will start at Arlington Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and [continue reading]
Update, 5:12 p.m.: At this time, trains resume normal service. There is currently no Green Line service between El Segundo and Redondo Beach stations due to a BNSF Railway train derailment just north of the Douglas Station. This means all westbound trains turnback at El Segundo Station and return towards Norwalk. Law enforcement has [continue reading]
More on the Chargers below. ICYMI: As expected, the announcement by Metro yesterday that the agency was partnering with Peace Over Violence to create a telephone hotline open 24/7 to victims [continue reading]
Furthering its commitment to assist transit passengers who have experienced unwanted sexual contact, Metro today announced a first-of-its-kind 24/7 sexual harassment counseling hotline. The hotline, 1-844-Off-Limits (633-5464), will be staffed by counselors from the community advocacy organization Peace Over Violence, which has 45 years of experience counseling victims of sexual abuse [continue reading]
The Art of Transit today is a no-brainer, given the winter storm that has descended on the Sierra Nevada the past few days. To wit: https://twitter.com/EdJoyce/status/818510599311085572 Wondering why I-80 thru the Sierra is still closed? Here's a look at Donner Pass right now. (📷: CHP-Donner Pass) #castorm pic.twitter.com/R7vwlS7xLR — CBS [continue reading]
