Ken Gonzales Day’s artwork presents kaleidoscopic views of native manzanita and oak trees, inviting passengers to find shapes and faces hidden within the patterns at Canoga Station for the Orange Line Extension. These images are currently being translated into two 27-foot long elliptical stone and glass mosaic artworks, which will [continue reading]
Bus rapid transit in Los Angeles began with the El Monte Busway, which broke ground 40 years ago this week. Today BRT in L.A. has expanded to several other transportation corridors, but this is the original, the grand-daddy of them all: The first multi-modal system in California and the first [continue reading]
Service Update as of 2:50 p.m. Power has been restored. Replacement bus service has been cancelled. Normal train operation is resuming in both directions. Service Update as of 2:30 p.m. Service on the Metro Blue Line has been disrupted due to a traction power problem between Slauson and Firestone stations. [continue reading]
Light rains did their best to snarl traffic this morning in downtown Los Angeles as L.A. City Councilmember Tom LaBonge and several transportation officials marked the anniversary of what is now known as the “SigAlert” traffic report. It was Jan. 22, 1955, when the first “SigAlert” radio broadcast was aired [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]
A handful of new RSS feeds have been added to Metro’s website for subscription. The new feeds can be found on Metro RSS Feeds and join existing feeds for The Source, El Pasajero, Metro News Headlines, Metro Library Transportation Headlines and Metro Library Primary Resources. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication – it’s a [continue reading]
photo by Nestor Carvajal, via Flickr Very well composed street scene taken last year in Manhattan with the iPhone’s Instagram app. 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 blog. Gingrich and Romney on climate change (Grist) A brief and almost-funny look at the two candidates’ changing views on climate change and [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmyUI0kS3Lw&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] The above is the latest construction update on the Gold Line Foothill Extension project, which will extend the Gold Line for 11.5 miles from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The video focuses on the work done in the past few months on the bridge that will carry the tracks [continue reading]
Living in downtown Los Angeles in the Historic Core means there’s no shortage of things to do. This weekend, I’ve managed to narrow it down to three choices. Learn to move in a whole new way at “A Taste of Los Angeles Belly Dance” on Saturday. The event, hosted by [continue reading]
