August Metro ridership graphs UPDATE: Post corrected below in bold, 4:20 p.m. I need to double-check the Red/Purple Line ridership with Metro staff in the morning. Both the Red/Purple Line and the Expo Line had their best months yet, with 164,081 and 27,280 average weekday boardings, respectively — slightly higher than [continue reading]
The H-1 is the major freeway that serves Honolulu. The Hawaii Department of Transportation is calling it the H-1 Freeway Rehabilitation Project while the Star-Advertiser, the city’s big newspaper, seems to prefer a sexier PR term. Nice! The first two Carmageddons on the 405 went smoothly but movie fans [continue reading]
International Car Free Day is Sunday, September 22, and local Studio City and Sherman Oaks businesses are offering all sorts of special promotions for those who leave their cars at home on that day. On September 22, just wear blue, mention “Car Free Sunday” and walk, bike or take transit to these supporting [continue reading]
Whether you live in Santa Monica or are a frequent visitor, Pop-Up MANGo is an event you’ll appreciate. Part community festival, part streetscaping effort, the free event aims to show how the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo) can be improved. Pop-Up MANGo is scheduled for Saturday, September 21, 11 a.m. to 3 [continue reading]
Metro and Echo Park Film Center will host a free public screening of a classically enthralling Alfred Hitchcock film at historic Union Station on Friday, Sept. 20. Don’t miss the chance to see a visually outstanding work by the brilliant master of suspense in the similarly dramatic setting of Union [continue reading]
Notice to Proceed Good news this afternoon for the Crenshaw/LAX Line project, with Metro issuing the official “notice to proceed,” the document that allows the contractor to begin design/build work with serious construction expected to begin in 2014. As the notice says, the contractor — Walsh/Shea Corridor Constructors — has [continue reading]
For those following AB 1222, here’s the latest update from Metro’s government relations team: PEPRA/13(C) Update AB 1222 (Bloom) which would provide a 15 month exemption from the state’s pension reform law passed the Assembly Committee on Public Employees Retirement and Social Security committee today on a unanimous vote. The [continue reading]
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
Metro currently boards more than 80,000 wheelchair passengers a month, and the new CNG New Flyer buses Metro has ordered will make getting around on Metro Bus even easier and safer for wheelchair riders. The new buses will come with two Q’PODs, a three-point securement system which makes securing front-facing [continue reading]
Long story short: The U.S. Department of Labor says that California’s pension reform (known as PEPRA) violates the collective bargaining rights of transit workers. Therefore, transit agencies such as Metro are ineligible to receive billions in federal funding. A bill is working its way through the Legislature — it cleared [continue reading]
