Heads up, Expo Line riders. Tonight after 9:30 p.m., the Expo Line will be running approximately every 20 minutes between the La Cienega/Jefferson and Culver City Station due to rail grinding and urgent track maintenance. Trains will share one track in the area beginning at 9 p.m. Every other Culver City-bound train will turn [continue reading]
UPDATE: normal service has resumed. As of Monday at 4:20 p.m, there is no service south of Anaheim Street due to a power outage. The stations between downtown Long Beach and Anaheim Street will be served by bus shuttles. Please follow announcements. Please follow Metro’s general Twitter feed or Metro’s [continue reading]
Starting Thursday, Caltrans will close the southbound I-5 off-ramp at Pioneer and Imperial for the next 8 months. Here’s the release from Caltrans: Caltrans will fully close the southbound Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) off-ramp at Pioneer Boulevard/Imperial Highway beginning Thursday, August 15 at 8 a.m. The ramp will remain fully closed [continue reading]
The Hollywood Bowl is synonymous with the atmosphere, ambience and activity of summer. You can listen to great music ranging from classical to jazz to rock and enjoy a delicious picnic with a loved one. This season, artists such as Yoyo Ma, Diana Ross, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vampire Weekend, [continue reading]
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment last week released its latest report on the impact of climate change on the Golden State. As the above chart shows, the state is convinced that temperatures are rising and evidence now exists of their impacts. This is a topic I try [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Exploring the Green Line: from nowhere to [continue reading]
There’s an upcoming closure taking place on the I-405, but not where you think. Orange County Transportation Authority recently opened the newly reconstructed connector between the southbound San Diego Freeway (I-405) and the eastbound Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22), marking a milestone for the West County Connectors project. Now crews will move forward [continue reading]
Progress continues on the Gold Line Foothill Extension project — you can now see the station foundations in Arcadia and Monrovia, as shown above. Work can also be up seen throughout the 11.5-mile alignment between eastern Pasadena and the Azusa/Glendora border. For those who live in the area, the Arcadia [continue reading]
Above are the results thus far of our unscientific (as always) poll on how transit riders feel about other transit riders wearing Google Glass in the future with some of the comments below. Thus far, the results are very mixed and indicate that Google Glass may have a little work [continue reading]
Heads up Expo line patrons! This weekend from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Expo Line will be running approximately every 20 minutes due to rail grinding and urgent track-work. Here are the detours for the stations between Expo/La Brea and Expo/Western: – Saturday, August 10, board on the westbound [continue reading]
