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. Still on board the bullet train (L.A. Times) The Times’ Editorial Board takes a long look at the increased price tag of [continue reading]
photo by Evan Leeson, via Flickr creative commons A little something different today — this birds-eye view of the runways at Vancouver’s airport. How did the photographer get this shot? He was riding in a commuter helicopter that on this day was routed over the airport. The photo was taken [continue reading]
Did you know that the Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr photo site has grown to more than 7,700 digital images? The collection of local area photographs dating back to the 1880s has been online for just over 3 years, and this week it surpassed 1.5 million views. That reinforces [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. Moscow Metro: The world’s best subway system? Thomas Sigler defends keeping the “public” in public transportation for The Atlantic Cities by arguing that [continue reading]
On Oct. 21 and 28, the Beverly Hills Courier published six news and analysis articles about the two reports Metro released last month on seismic and tunneling issues affecting the Westside Subway Extension project in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood areas (Oct. 21 edition and Oct. 28 edition; [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. Survey: Southern California voters want more transit, balk at more highways (L.A. Streetsblog) Streetsblog editor Damien Newton dug into the results of [continue reading]
photo by Michael Villarmia, via Flickr creative commons Nice night-time shot of platform 7 at Los Angeles Union Station. 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 of the [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: Metro held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning to celebrate the completion of the $2.3-million Duarte Sound wall project on the north side of the 210 freeway between Highland Avenue and Buena Vista Street in the City of Duarte. The long awaited half-mile sound wall [continue reading]
A community update meeting for the L.A. Streetcar project is tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Caltrans building (100 S. Main Street) in downtown Los Angeles. In case you missed it, here’s our post from last week about the new briefing package available on the project and [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink: LOS ANGELES – Due to an annual track maintenance project, Metrolink train service will be limited on the San Bernardino Line on November 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20. While the buses provided by Metrolink will be used to provide transportation from San Bernardino County to [continue reading]
