Hello Source readers, its been a while since I’ve updated you on metro.net happenings and new stuff — well, here they are, enjoy! Interactive Maps & Infographics! A few new interactive maps and infographics have been added to Metro’s website, the maps use Google Maps API and are usable on [continue reading]
Good morning, Metro riders and interested parties. The monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors is now underway here at Metro headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. You can listen in by phoning 213-922-6045. Here’s the agenda.
The Expo Line opened in late April and since then we’ve received a steady trickle of comments from Metro customers saying that it’s difficult to differentiate Expo Line and Blue Line trains at the two stations they share — 7th/Metro Center and Pico. A few passengers have even complained of [continue reading]
Metro and Caltrans offcials who today announced the opening of the Metro ExpressLanes Customer Walk-in Center in Gardena where the public can open a FasTrak® account and receive a FasTrak® [continue reading]
Below is the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of the full Metro Board of Directors (pdf version here). The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the Board room on the 3rd floor of Metro headquarters that is adjacent to Union Station in downtown L.A. You can listen to the meeting online [continue reading]
photo by TCDavis, via Flickr creative commons There are a lot of photos floating around online of escalators and stairs in subway stations, but relatively few of them manage to be good. Here’s a nicely composed one taken this month in the Washington D.C. Metro. The photo has great lines [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. Metro fail: Taps for a TAP card (Blogging Los Angeles) Blogger Will Campbell’s [continue reading]
The news: the transponders that are required to use the ExpressLanes are now available online, at a new customer centers in Gardena and El Monte and through the Auto Club. A press event is being held this morning and all the details are below in the news release from Metro: [continue reading]
What is the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor? Perhaps not as well known as some of the others, the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor is one of the 12 Measure R transit projects. The project is currently in the Alternatives Analysis (AA) phase in which different types of [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 trouble viewing [continue reading]
