Photos: Anna Chen/Metro Have you ever wondered how Los Angeles gets its water? Learn all about it at the LADWP museum in the John Ferraro Building. The tiny museum has some interesting displays and is the perfect size to explore during lunch time. This year LADWP is also celebrating the L.A. Aqueduct’s centennial, [continue reading]
Walter Hood, a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a winner selected to represent the United States at the 2010 Venice Biennale, has been selected to create an integrated sculptural work for the Expo Line Downtown Santa Monica Station. Hood is a professor at the University of California, [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLJI-0CESU&w=584&h=438] This week marks the 10th anniversary of Gold Line service beginning between Los Angeles Union Station and Pasadena. We’ll have some other posts as the week continues, but I thought it would be fun to start this one from YouTube user PhotoBoost. What exactly is happening here? This is [continue reading]
Here’s the meeting notice from the Union Station Master Plan team: Join us in shaping the future of Union Station! Please join us for our summer Community Workshop to learn about Metro’s progress on the LA Union Station Master Plan (project homepage here). Building on our May 2nd workshop, where [continue reading]
ExpressLanes Performance Update-Prelim Report, July 2013 The Metro ExpressLanes pilot project publicly released its second performance report Monday morning, offering a statistical look at how the project is faring on the 10 and 110 freeways. This is a follow-up to the first report, released in March. I’ll offer the same [continue reading]
I was riding the Gold Line home last Thursday, my head resting comfortably against the window when something big and green and black bumped into the window as we pulled into Del Mar station. That certainly woke me up. I thought it was either a mutant bee or perhaps a [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. Freeway fighters protest before [continue reading]
Work continues on the I-5 HOV Improvement Project. Always remember to slow for the cone. Here’s the news release from Caltrans: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) plans to implement the closures listed below as part of a project that is constructing High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV or carpool) lanes and [continue reading]
Long Beach Transit Mall station renaming report Nothing earth-shaking here folks, but I know that station renaming is always of moderate to high interest to Source readers. Above is the staff report on the proposal to rename the Blue Line’s Transit Mall station “Downtown Long Beach,” a move that Metro [continue reading]
In addition to the 55-hour connector closure that will take place this weekend, there’s a lot more construction work happening on the I-10 and SR-60. Plan ahead if you’re traveling through that area and make note of detour routes. Some other closures happening on I-10: Freeway Closures Scheduled for I-10 [continue reading]
