No headlines today because I'm in a state route 710 study meeting that is now entering its 144th minute — making it officially longer than the last Batman movie. I'll post about the meeting later and offer up some other fascinating government blog content! Posted with Blogsy
The State Route 710 project’s technical advisory committee met this morning at Metro headquaters in downtown Los Angeles. The topic of discussion: the performance of the alternatives under review for the Alternatives Analysis phase of the study to improve mobility in the western San Gabriel Valley and surrounding area. A [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, our roundup of the latest Metro related tweets. To get our attention, add the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets and subscribe to our feed if you haven’t already. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on metro.net. If having problems viewing [continue reading]
Here's the news release from Metrolink, the regional commuter rail agency funded in part by Metro: LOS ANGELES – For the 20th consecutive year, Metrolink will offer safe, affordable service directly to the Los Angeles County Fair. On Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of September, Metrolink's San Bernardino Line [continue reading]
Photos by Gary Leonard If you missed Meet Me @Metro this past weekend, you have four more chances left to catch the traveling theatre spectacular. There are shows at 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on both Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2. Tickets are $20 (or whatever amount you [continue reading]
Good morning from lovely downtown Monrovia in the San Gabriel Valley, where my bike is locked to a streetlamp because of lack of — hint, hint — bike racks. In other news, the Metro library is taking a summer break so we're compiling a few headlines on our own. CTA: [continue reading]
Here's some good news from last Frida, when a Metro-sponsored bill cleared the Assembly in Sacramento. The bill would allow class II bikeways — that's bike lanes along existing roadways, in plain English — to be built without agencies having to do time-consuming and time-gobbling environmental review studies to determine [continue reading]
We just received a heads up about this great time-lapse video recently posted to YouTube of the old Motor Avenue rail bridge being demolished last week as part of the second phase of the Expo Line between Culver City and Santa Monica. The old bridge only had room for [continue reading]
Below is the latest update from the Expo Line Construction Authority. Bridge construction is set to begin in earnest next Monday and last for about a year. Posted with Blogsy
Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong. The spirit of space exploration and science that Armstrong helped cement lives on strong here in Southern California. The Jet Propulsion Library recently landed the rover Curiosity on Mars and the space shuttle Endeavour is coming to the California Science Center in Exposition Park this [continue reading]
