[polldaddy poll=5808825] Over the past two weeks, Metro provided free service on its buses and trains on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. In addition, the agency also ran all night Metro Rail and Orange Line service on both New Year’s Eve and Sunday night and bulked up rail [continue reading]
photo by Spider_Dude, via Twitter Great iPhone pic to start the new year. That’s the Metro 33 bus on Venice Boulevard, shot one evening last week. 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. Pretax commuter benefits slashed by Congress (San Francisco Chronicle) Congress went home for the holidays and couldn’t be bothered to extend a [continue reading]
CicLAvia Redux, Part 2 from Nicholas Dahmann on Vimeo. This has been bouncing around the Internet for a few months, but I hadn’t seen it until stumbling on it over the holidays. It’s by Nicholas Dahmann and is a rendering done from thousands of still photos of the CicLAvia held [continue reading]
Good news for Metro on the final business day of 2011: The Federal Transit Administration has approved the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the light rail project that will run between the Green Line and the Exposition Line. The approval allows Metro to go forward with any [continue reading]
The annual parade begins at 8 a.m. on Monday and the game between Oregon and Wisconsin at 2:10 p.m. at the Rose Bowl. Both the parade and the game are easy to reach via Metro’s Gold Line light rail that runs between Pasadena and Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink, the commuter rail agency serving the Greater Los Angeles region: METROLINK, METRO OFFER THE EASIEST, MOST ECONOMICAL WAYS TO TRAVEL TO 2012 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES® FESTIVITIES Metrolink’s 2-For-1 Promotion Continues Through Dec. 30 and on Jan. 2 for the Rose Bowl Festivities Los Angeles [continue reading]
If you are making plans for going out this holiday weekend, there is an alternative to driving: Metro Rail and the Orange Line busway will be running all night on New Year’s Eve and again on Sunday night-Monday morning. Metro is offering free rides on all buses and trains between [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P905O-FYnE4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] This video from the KCET Departures blog has been making the rounds this week. It’s a flashmob singing Lil Wayne’s “How to Love” on the subway here in Los Angeles on a recent day. Very well done, people!
The ruling involves a dispute with a land owner over acquiring land for a rail car maintenance yard in Monrovia to serve the extension of the Gold Line to the Azusa/Glendora border. Here’s the news release from the Foothill Extension Construction Authority:
