Walking: it’s good for your health, it’s a way to reduce your carbon footprint, and it’s a great way to discover — or rediscover — neighborhoods. During the month of October, also known as [continue reading]
Los Angeles’ largest free street festival, Taste of Soul, is back on Saturday, Oct. 15! From American to Jamaican food, savory to sweet, there is no reason why your taste [continue reading]
•The city of Carson would receive $1,323,300 in local return funds in Measure M’s first year. Local return funds are a percentage of the sales tax revenues that are returned to cities on a per capita basis to pay for local projects such as street repair, traffic light synchronizations, transit [continue reading]
The Measure M sales tax ballot measure includes funding for the following projects, programs and local return for the city of Torrance: •The Green Line Extension to Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance. The Green Line would be extended for 4.7 miles from its current terminus in Redondo Beach to a new [continue reading]
Important links: info on senior fares is here. With a senior/disabled/Medicare TAP card — available to those 62 and older — a regular fare is 75 cents per ride on [continue reading]
Metro Board Member Ara Najarian joined officials from the city of Santa Clarita to celebrate the opening of the Golden Valley Bridge Widening Project and naming of the bridge to honor [continue reading]
UPDATE, 7:50 p.m.: Downtown Santa Monica Station has reopened and trains are resuming regular service. UPDATE, 3:43 p.m.: Due to area street closures, bus shuttle boarding location in DTSM is now at 5th and Broadway. Downtown Santa Monica Station remains closed as investigation of the deputy-involved shooting continues. For shuttles from [continue reading]
The Regional Connector project last week entered a new phase of construction—known as ‘steady state’—at the future underground 1st/Central Station in Little Tokyo. Construction at the easternmost end of the Connector’s [continue reading]
[scribd id=326408764 key=key-ktIZm11s26akU28mhZYh mode=scroll] Above is the latest update on construction of the Purple Line Extension’s first section between Wilshire/Western and the future Wilshire/La Cienega Station in Beverly Hills. There [continue reading]
The good news is that there are no October surprises at Metro this month. All five Service Councils will meet in October and hear presentations on the Metro Bus Operator Training Process, a topic that is sure to be of interest to those who regularly ride the system. A few [continue reading]
