A bit late for CicLAvia, but never too late for fun. From one of my favorite blogs, and straight out of Sweden (of course) — Hövding: the hidden, inflatable airbag helmet. Industrial designers, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin began working on Hövding together as their joint master thesis: The law that had just [continue reading]
photo by Steve Bott, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo taken on Saturday on opening day of the Expo Line. That very happy looking guy on the right side of the photo happens to be The Source’s very own Carter Rubin. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, [continue reading]
As of 3:17, many Metro bus lines serving downtown Los Angeles were detoured from their regular routes due to the May Day protests. Impacted bus lines include: 002/302, 004, 010, 014, 016/316, 018, 020, 028, 030, 033, 037, 040, 042, 045, 048, 051/052/352, 053, 055/355, 060, 062, 066, 068, 070, [continue reading]
As we posted yesterday, please expect bus detours this afternoon in downtown Los Angeles due to May Day protests. As usual, it’s a bit of a fluid situation as it’s hard to predict how many protestors there will be. As of 12:30 p.m., 10 bus lines were on detour and [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. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on Metro.net.
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
[UPDATE] The Android app update is available for download NOW (!) from Google Play. As many of you know, the new Go Metro smartphone app recently debuted in the Android store — here’s a Source post about the app’s many fine features. Since then, we’ve received some great feedback and have [continue reading]
photo by Craig Dietrich, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo taken at the Pico station on the Expo Line’s inaugural day. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many [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. It’s been a busy past few days at Metro and we’ve skipped some good [continue reading]
Metro Bus service will experience detours in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, May l due to planned marches for National May Day Protest. Metro plans to run regular Metro Bus and Metro Rail service during the May Day national protest. However, some Metro Bus service in downtown Los Angeles will [continue reading]
