Heads up, revelers! ‘Tis the weekend for holiday parades. That’s good news for celebrations but not great for related traffic, which of course includes Metro buses detouring around the parades. If your Friday to Monday travel takes you near any of the following areas you might want to allow a [continue reading]
Power outages impacting several traffic signal systems at grade crossings of the Metro Gold Line in the San Gabriel Valley area are causing delays in train service of up to 15 to 20 minutes. As a safety measure, Metro Gold Line trains will stop before proceeding at the rail crossings. [continue reading]
photo by Ran Zhang, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo and processing of the gates in a New York subway station. The photo was taken with a Nikon D300. 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]
Good question! 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. Boston bikeshare to branch out next spring Boston’s four-month-old public bike sharing system has blown past expectations, clocking 140,000 trips since [continue reading]
The Santa Ana winds that began last evening and continue today — at this moment they’re blowing strong in Pasadena — may impact Metro Rail and bus service throughout the day. At this time there are five to 10 minute delays on the Gold Line. And please allow for extra [continue reading]
Our apologies for technical issues that took the blog down early last evening until a few minutes ago. We’ve had some recent issues but hopefully things have stabilized.
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. How federal funding fails to match demand for transit in the U.S. (DC Streetsblog) Streetsblog’s Washington bureau points us to a handy [continue reading]
SANTA MONICA BIKE PLAN: Congrats to Santa Monica, where the City Council last week approved a new bike plan for the already very bike-friendly Republic. The best part, I think, are bike lanes for the city’s downtown area where cyclists currently get stuck in some pretty serious car traffic. It [continue reading]
The update from Metro’s government relations staff is below. The agency has been pushing for America Fast Forward legislation — to use government loans and financing to accelerate the building of transit and road projects — to be included in the bill. A new multi-year bill was supposed to be [continue reading]
A quick heads-up: Metro staff will be test locking the gates at the North Hollywood Red Line station this afternoon from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. This is a continuation of the testing that began earlier this fall to gauge the different ways that Metro patrons are paying their fares [continue reading]
