Metro’s Green Places: reimagine and reinvent public spaces
Today is Earth Day, the one day a year everyone super cares about the environment. So hopefully you’ve elected to leave your car at home and give walking, biking or [continue reading]
On Earth Day, take transit & fight climate change
Sure, that headline is a self-serving message. But hey, I work in PR for a major transit agency. Here’s the thing: it’s actually a message that a lot of people [continue reading]
Photo essay: From Here to There
Veronica An is a Los Angeles-based journalist and photographer. She recently spent a day shadowing Metro bus operator Vanessa Maldonado and wrote the following. More photos can be found on her [continue reading]
Video: time-lapse of moving the Gold Line tracks at Little Tokyo/Arts District Station
Time flies when you’re building a new light rail. Between January and March, the Regional Connector project interrupted Gold Line service at the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station to build a [continue reading]
How We Roll, April 21: another hot year, Expo vs driving
Streaming coverage and music today from Prince on The Current in Minneapolis, one of the nation’s great radio stations. And here’s a NYT profile of Prince from 1996. Can we all [continue reading]
Learn about Metro’s FY17 budget process and provide feedback at these upcoming meetings
Metro is currently in the process of finalizing the annual budget for the 2017 fiscal year, which will be effective July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. The budget sets transportation priorities across [continue reading]
Metro receives FTA grants for electric buses and new ferry terminal on Catalina Island
Here’s the news release from Metro: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has received $8 million in grants from the Federal Transportation Administration that will be used to deploy zero-emission electric buses on the Orange Line and replace the ferry terminal on Catalina Island. “Metro is appreciative of [continue reading]
Ballot measure: rail or bus rapid transit project on Van Nuys Boulevard
One in a series of posts that will look at projects and programs that would receive funding from the sales tax ballot measure that the Metro Board has approved to send [continue reading]
Measure M: rail or bus rapid transit on Van Nuys Boulevard
One in a series of posts that will look at projects and programs that would receive funding from the Measure M sales tax ballot measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. What [continue reading]