Learn about Metro’s Business Interruption Fund (BIF) Pilot Program at a series of upcoming workshops. Staff from Metro and Pacific Coast Regional Small Business Development Corporation (PCR) will be available to share information about how [continue reading]
The OEI convened the first meeting of our newly formed Innovation Advisory Board in October. The group — consisting of experts in transportation, public policy, innovation and technology and labor policy — worked through a packed agenda to discuss our challenges and opportunities as we continue to build the Office. [continue reading]
As is usually the case this time of year, I’m beginning work on our year-end wrap up post for The Source. I did want to do something a little different this go-around and interweave reader/rider/taxpayer commentary into the 2016-in-review-post. Leave a comment here or email me your thoughts (please put ‘my opinion [continue reading]
Art of Transit (when Delta Airlines decides Detroit is on the way from Cincinnati to Los Angeles): Quasi-related: I’m a big fan of the Flyaway bus, but it took a [continue reading]
ICYMI: Suggest locations for bike share stations in Pasadena and Venice. I was pleased to see someone suggest both the Huntington and Rose Bowl in Pasadena, although the Rose Bowl is [continue reading]
Looking for more free, family-friendly holiday events to check out? The Expo Center Winter Festival is coming up Saturday, Dec. 17! Head to Expo Park and enjoy music, a snow [continue reading]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gior5j8ikag&w=560&h=315] Metro Bike Share is expanding to Venice, the Port of Los Angeles and the city of Pasadena in 2017. The Metro Board approved the expansion in October and [continue reading]
Metro Red Line bomb threat highlights vulnerabilities of rail system to attack (SGV Tribune) How vulnerable are transit systems in the U.S. to a terrorist attack? And is a multi-agency police force — as has been proposed by Metro staff — the best way to safeguard our local system? Those [continue reading]
Many of our followers on Twitter expressed interest in making Meatless Mondays with Metro a regular feature, so in the spirit of taking transit and eating less meat — two small, fairly simple things you can do [continue reading]
Three pretty good new pics of the working taking place under Wilshire to excavate the future Wilshire/La Brea Station for the Purple Line Extension. The first segment of the project [continue reading]
