photo by dle_wynpa, via Flickr creative commons That’s the New York subway’s Stillwell Avenue station in Coney Island, taken earlier this week with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, our roundup of the latest Metro related tweets. To get out attention, add the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on Metro.net.
They say it never rains in Southern California and this year that has sometimes been the case. But we can hope for more rain and snow next winter and by then, several Metro subway escalators will be better protected from the elements. To keep the escalators running more reliably — [continue reading]
Green Line to LAX fact sheet Click here for a high-resolution PDF version of the fact sheet. If you’re passing through Union Station on the way to work tomorrow morning, take a few minutes to swing by the East Portal of the station (i.e. the bus stop side of the [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMR6d2N6qMg[/youtube] Metro’s ExpressLanes is gearing up for the fall debut of the HOT lanes on the 110 freeway between Adams Boulevard and the Artesia Transit Center. That will be followed next year by the arrival of HOT lanes on the 10 freeway between Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles 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. The American bus revival (BBC News Magazine) Since voters, Congress and state legislatures can’t [continue reading]
photo by DennisM2, via Flickr creative commons Here’s the description of this photo from Holland in the Netherlands on Flickr: Bus stop Rietwijkeroordweg, which is situated on the northeastern side of Bosrandweg (road, N231), right on the border between Aalsmeer and Amstelveen municipalities. The poster advertises the state lottery’s 30 [continue reading]
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]
The activist group Move LA held its “L.A. on the Verge’ event at Union Station on Friday, with a big focus on transportation funding. The group is headed by former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane, who clearly let the hundreds in attendance know his position: the Measure R sales tax [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink: Late last week, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) allocated $ 3.7 million to fund safety enhancements to one of Metrolink’s busiest crossings, the Broadway/Brazil crossing in Glendale. “Approximately a hundred trains and thousands of cars travel through this intersection every day. This funding will [continue reading]
