[scribd id=259197642 key=key-bnyrWJCwgx1nhtRSPnuI mode=scroll] Good story by the L.A. Times today on Metro potentially adding a Red/Purple Line station in downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District. The Metro staff report is above. [continue reading]
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Metro has worked with Caltrans, Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) and UC Berkeley to develop a new commuter app called Trip2GO. Trip2GO is a multimodal trip planning app designed to support research [continue reading]
[youtube https://youtu.be/XZWMsmY7SIY] Rep. Karen Bass (D-37th District) praised Metro’s local hiring program during testimony at the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. Bass wrote the legislation for a federal pilot program that will allow transportation agencies to consider hiring local workers for future transit and highway project that use federal funds. Up to now, [continue reading]
The next Purple Line Extension community meeting for section one of the project between Wilshire/Western and Wilshire/La Cienega will be held on Thursday, March 19, at the Korean Cultural Center. Metro’s Construction Relations team will provide the latest updates on pre-construction work along the first section and construction activities for the [continue reading]
[scribd id=258958729 key=key-BM5G9rSbbajEsY5dkHh8 mode=scroll] Two Measure R-funded rail projects — the second phase of the Expo Line and the Gold Line Foothill Extension — are wrapping up construction in 2015. After construction is completed, the respective Construction Agencies building the projects will hand them over to Metro for systems testing [continue reading]
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We know you’re probably thinking every New Year celebration is equipped with ceremonies, dancing and singing. And you’re absolutely right, except the Mexica New Year Los Angeles Festival is [continue reading]
As anyone knows who follows Metro’s Twitter account, we occasionally get an earful about the issue of rider etiquette. And perhaps no issue gets the collective goat of riders more than people standing in such a way that they block those who want up escalators to get where they’re going a little [continue reading]
Bike Week LA and CalTrans Museum in Downtown Los Angeles invite proposals from artists in any media, including video and performance art, for Color Wheels: the LA County Community Bicycle [continue reading]
