Our extensive coverage of the Westside Subway Extension and Bus Rapid Transit for Wilshire Boulevard this year provides us with an opportunity to revisit Wilshire of days gone by. The Metro Library Primary Resources blog highlights several items of interest from the past, including 1920s and ’30s double-decker bus service, holiday celebrations and historic [continue reading]
Here’s the news from the Expo Line Construction Authority: The Expo Line is one step closer to reaching Santa Monica today after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved all crossings in Phase 2. The Commission unanimously approved Resolution SX-100, authorizing the Exposition Construction Authority to build the 16 new [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. Toronto’s streetcar system to get sleek new rolling stock The Toronto Transit Commission is inviting Torontonians — yep, that’s their demonyn — to [continue reading]
Following up our earlier post, here are three pics I snapped at Union Station this morning of the two Metrolink bike cars that have been the recipients of a special wrap. They look quite awesome in person.
Here is the news release from the Federal Transit Administration: LOS ANGELES –Deputy Federal Transit Administrator Therese McMillan (in above photo with Metro officials) was in Los Angeles today to announce that two Southern California transit agencies will receive a total of $2.2 million as part of a $34.6 million [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. Metro chooses six teams to submit master plan visions for Union Station (Blogdowntown) Metro staff have recommended to the board of directors [continue reading]
Metrolink isn’t screwing around. They’ve taken two of their new “bike cars” and put “wraps” on them to let everyone know loud and clear that they’re train cars with tons of extra room for bikes. Both of the cars are on the same train this morning, the only time that [continue reading]
photo by Elliot Scott, via Flickr creative commons Nice shot of the New York subway taken with the revved-up iPhone 4s camera. Elliot used the Camera+ app. I’m still waiting impatiently for Source readers to submit photos of our Metro system taken with the new iPhone. To submit a photo [continue reading]
The Source reported recently that the Metro team in charge of planning the proposed downtown L.A. streetcar had selected seven “alternatives” to study in greater detail as the process goes forward. Metro hosted a community update meeting last week to go over those routes and other project details with the [continue reading]
From Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Metro’s Nextrip Bus Arrival Information System has recently reached the one-million hits per month milestone. Seventy percent of the users are using the web and 23% percent are using mobile phones to access the information. Although the SMS/Text feature is not [continue reading]
