From Metro’s Community Relations team: LA Trade Tech Community College (LATTC) students recently worked with Metro to create a conceptual flyover rendering of the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which is under construction and more than halfway complete. The students’ video of the future 8.5-mile alignment and its eight new stations can be seen above. Metro [continue reading]
Update, 7:52 a.m.: Sheriffs have reopened Downtown Long Beach Station, and trains are resuming normal service. Customers can expect residual delays thru 8:30 a.m. as rail staff work to get trains running per schedule. There is currently no train service to Downtown Long Beach Station due to police activity. While [continue reading]
ICYMI: Our year-in-review post is here. It’s not short. Art of Transit: Things to read whilst transiting: Creep on the Hayward Fault, in the New Yorker. The fault runs through the East Bay in the San Francisco-Oakland metro area and is thought to be one of the more dangerous ones [continue reading]
If you’re thinking about driving to the Rose Parade, please keep in mind that street and paid parking is pretty limited near the parade route and traffic is usually extremely congested after [continue reading]
Mitsuru Café is located within Japanese Village Plaza and sells traditional Japanese finger foods such as imagawayaki (red bean cakes), takoyaki (octopus balls), and mitarashi dango (mochi rice cake). The [continue reading]
This was my seventh year at the agency and, by far, 2016 was the busiest. I usually like to put the end-of-the-year highlights in chronological order but I think four [continue reading]
A video posted by Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Dec 27, 2016 at 9:21am PST Los Angeles’s freeways were gridlocked this past Thanksgiving, and if that wasn’t scary enough, you can bet [continue reading]
UPDATE, 9 a.m. Dec. 24: Normal Gold Line service has resumed between all stations. UPDATE, 6 p.m., Dec. 23: Bus shuttles continue between Allen and Sierra Madre Villa and will continue for the rest of Friday service. Metro Operations reports that work crews have made progress repairing the second overhead catenary [continue reading]
I’ll have our annual year-in-review post by the middle of next week; 2016 has been quite the year and it’s been fun combing through everything that has happened. Until then, [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Related: More recent Crenshaw/LAX Line construction pics. Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: https://twitter.com/CurbedSF/status/812060405992407040 Big rig crashes on 210; Gold Line stopped in Pasadena (KTLA) The accident occurred on the 210 freeway between the Allen and Sierra Madre Villa stations at 4:52 a.m. today [continue reading]
