Three Metro Blue Line stations — Grand/LATTC, San Pedro Street and Washington — will be closed, and there will be no Blue Line trains between 7th Street/Metro Center and Vernon [continue reading]
The Little Tokyo/Arts District Station may be closed until March, but there are still plenty of ways to eat, shop and play in the neighborhood and surrounding area. Besides the Gold [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: News flash!: The Metro Board of Directors’ Finance, Budget and Audit Committee will be discussing trends in ridership — Metro and otherwise [continue reading]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY1glnsBPA&w=560&h=315] Metro’s Accessibility Unit has launched several Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accessibility-related customer information videos, starting with the above, ‘Metro: A Customer’s View.’ The videos are meant [continue reading]
Final Update, 6:04 p.m.: Repairs to the overhead power supply system near Willow Street are complete, and the Metro Blue Line will resume normal, shortline service to Willow Street Station for the remainder of rush hour this evening. *** Metro Blue Line trains that would typically terminate at Willow Street Station will [continue reading]
As most of you know, we’re just over a week into the three-month closure of the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station. Work being done during the closure includes major track relocation and tunneling [continue reading]
Art of Transit: Metro takes control of Expo Line to begin pre-revenue service (Santa Monica Next) Metro can now justly say “my precious” about the project’s mainline tracks between Culver City and Santa Monica. The Expo Line Construction Authority handed over the 6.6-mile tracks on Friday, a big step forward [continue reading]
[scribd id=295998554 key=key-VakVaAtiPlSOGk8A7lLX mode=scroll] With the announcement last week that the NFL’s Rams — and possibly the Chargers — are relocating to the Los Angeles area, here’s an interesting motion that will go before the Metro Board of Directors this month. The motion calls for a task force to study [continue reading]
Please see the notice and map above. Hours of testing will vary — it’s best to assume these are active tracks and to look both ways and obey all traffic [continue reading]
Art of Transit U.S. proposes spending $4 billion on self-driving cars (NYT) Excerpt: The government’s new support includes a request in President Obama’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year [continue reading]
