Today is the 100th birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who in December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, reused to abide by the local bus company’s rules and surrender her seat to a white passenger. Parks died in 2005 but her stand that day triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and, the next [continue reading]
I spent a couple of hours at MoveLA’s annual conference at Union Station on Friday. As the group’s name implies, MoveLA — with financial help from Metro — is pushing for an expansion and acceleration of transit projects across Los Angeles County. Three things I heard that I found intriguing [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Fixes on tap for TAP at Metro (ZevWeb) A very good summary of work [continue reading]
Photo by Pedro Szekely, via Flickr creative commons One of the more exciting things going on is Metro’s purchase of Union Station in April 2011. With this purchase, Metro kicked off an effort to develop a Master Plan to make it a 21st century transit station. Metro is giving you [continue reading]
Photos by Luis Inzunza Federal, state, local and railroad officials today launched the start of constuction of a four-lane roadway underpass with a double-track railroad bridge to replace a congested railroad crossing on Baldwin Avenue in the City of El Monte. The grade separation at Baldwin Avenue is a project [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Five trends to watch in China’s urban transportion saga (The City Fix) China watching [continue reading]
It’s never too early to start celebrations for the Year of the Snake. The Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena will hold a pan-Asian celebration of Lunar New Year on Saturday, February 2. The festival will last from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be food trucks and performances, and visiting [continue reading]
It’s a week of anniversaries at Metro: The Metro Red Line began operating 20 years ago this week just a few days before Day One of Metro on Feb. 1, 1993. The above timeline is the first of two that we’ll post on The Source; you can scroll right and [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. My apologies for the somewhat sporadic posting in the past [continue reading]
