Beat the summer heat with an evening bicycle ride to hear live music under the stars on Saturday, July 20. Bike from the Rose Gardens at Exposition Park to MacArthur Park to experience the unique sounds and beats of Mucca Pazza at Levitt Pavilion. The 8-mile ride, sponsored by Metro, [continue reading]
A little known incident occurred in Los Angeles’ Mid-City area on the evening of July 13, 1913. When all was said and done, Pacific Electric’s rail network replaced all of its wooden streetcars and implemented automatic train control (a topic still in the news today). If you had any doubt [continue reading]
Hurry up and register for bicycle safety classes this summer because spots are going fast! As part of ongoing efforts to educate all road users, Metro is offering free traffic safety classes through the end of September. Safety is a major concern for cyclists, so these workshops will teach skills [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. Is downtown Los Angeles’ low-rise building spree hurting [continue reading]
The old ticketing concourse at Union Station is usually off-limits to the public, but it will be open this Saturday, July 20 for a free screening of Chinatown, hosted by Metro and Downtown Film Festival L.A. You’ll be able to soak in the glamorous beauty of historic Union Station while watching a movie [continue reading]
Here is the news release from Caltrans from late Monday afternoon: Los Angeles – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has been working to shore up the northbound SR-2 to northbound I-5 connector tunnel in order to safely open all lanes of I-5 above. The contractor will continue to construct temporary support [continue reading]
Metro Bus service is being detoured tonight around the Crenshaw District to avoid demonstrations along Crenshaw Boulevard. The protests began as quiet demonstrations against the George Zimmerman murder trial verdict that later erupted into violence. Bus Lines 20, 40, 105, 710 and 740 are affected. However, the buses are continuing [continue reading]
Riding is beautiful! These maps show average weekday ridership numbers from fiscal year 2012 (that’s July 2011 through June 2012). The first bubble map shows where Metro Rail passengers are boarding trains that are headed into downtown Los Angeles, the county’s number one job center. The second bubble map shows [continue reading]
Metro communications staffer Paul Gonzalez snapped this photo this afternoon of the inside of the tunnel between the 5 and 2 freeways that was burned by the tanker truck fire on Saturday. And definitely check out these pics on the Caltrans website.
Welcome news — always good to see new connections to regional transit. Here is the news release from Metrolink: LOS ANGELES – Metrolink has partnered with the City of Thousand Oaks and Thousand Oaks Transit to provide convenient weekday round-trip shuttle service between the Metrolink Moorpark Station from the [continue reading]
