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. Hit the brakes on high-speed rail (L.A. Times) Columnist George Skelton criticizes Gov. Jerry Brown for proposing to cut services while putting [continue reading]
photo by Tom Giebel, via Flickr creative commons Something very different today: the first-ever aerial view of a freight train passing through a wintery field in Wisconsin to be part of the Art of Transit. It’s a very well-composed image, taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. To submit [continue reading]
Here’s the news advisory issued by Metro: Downtown L.A. Blue Line stations to close evenings of Saturday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 8, for Expo Line systems integration work Work hours are Saturday and Sunday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Bus shuttles replace trains between 7th/Metro and Washington stations. [continue reading]
The Beverly Hills Courier published a story in today’s edition headlined “Metro admits Santa Monica Blvd. seismic work not adequate.” The story involves the studies that the Beverly Hills Unified School District is performing on the Beverly Hills High School campus in order to determine the location of earthquake fault [continue reading]
This involves a lawsuit brought against the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority alleging that the environmental studies for the Pasadena-to-Azusa light rail project didn’t properly study alternative locations for a rail maintenance yard. The suit was brought by a Monrovia land owner who is objecting to attempts to acquire [continue reading]
photo by Carlos Rivera, via Flickr creative commons Nice shot of a bus stop taken with the iPhone’s Instagram app. Guess where it was taken — answer after the jump. If you are correct, then you are some kind of Jedi Master of geography. To submit a photo for the [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-i_5skhsU[/youtube] 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. The above video is billed as two people meeting on a New York subway train — one with a ukelele, the [continue reading]
Saturday marks one of the more interesting anniversaries in local transportation history. Forty-nine years ago this weekend, C.M. Gilliss, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, outlined his plan for comprehensive rapid transit in L.A. at the downtown Statler-Hilton Hotel. His vision included individually-coded credit cards, “magic-eye” fare computers, [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. USDOT awards $186 million to Illinois to expand high-speed rail in the Midwest Thanks to another grant from the federal government, higher-speed rail [continue reading]
In 2008, Los Angeles County voters approved the Measure R sales tax increase of one-half cent to pay for new road and transit projects. The approval of Measure R — with 68 percent of the vote — jump-started Metro’s efforts to build a network of bus and rail projects that [continue reading]
