Avoid West Hollywood this afternoon and evening at all costs — unless you specifically want to be there for the amazing West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval. As always on Halloween, it will be a crazy place with fantastic costumes and incredible traffic during the parade, as well as afterward. City officials [continue reading]
Lipski’s 30′ high clock tower will be installed in the entry plaza of the El Monte Transit Center. Rendering by RNL Architects. Artist Donald Lipski, whose monumental works of art dot public environments throughout the United States, was chosen from a pool of 160 artists to create an iconic, landmark [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asHYUGvyocY[/youtube] Metro.net readers have spoken and Noah Mucci is winner of the 2011 Transit Flicks video contest for “Dollar-FiftyCity,” a first-person piece celebrating his experiences traveling L.A. County on Metro. This is the second year for the contest, which attracted dozens of video entries. Finalists were selected by transit officials [continue reading]
photo by Angel Hernandez, via Tumblr The Patsaouras Transit Plaza and Metro HQ at the break of dawn on a recent day. The photo was taken with a Nikon D3000 with a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second, aperture of f/3.5 and ISO of 800. To submit a photo [continue reading]
Below is the news release from the Authority, which is building the 11.5-mile extension of the Gold Line from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The case involves the Authority’s attempts to acquire the land needed for a rail car maintenance facility in Monrovia. MONROVIA – Today, the Metro Gold Line [continue reading]
A media event was held at Metro on Friday afternoon to celebrate two recent grants from the Federal Transit Administration: $25 million for the purchase of about 60 new compressed natural gas-powered buses and $9.6 million for a new Silver Line station at Patsaouras Plaza at Union Station. The grant [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. UTA to debut local public art in Utah County The regional transit authority for Salt Lake has not one, but three blogs: Trains [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. Republicans look to give federal transportation funds to states (The Hill) The Hill’s federal legislation blog reports that Republicans in the House [continue reading]
The Metro Orange Line is six years old tomorrow, Oct. 29. The anniversary coincides with ongoing construction of its four-mile extension to the Chatsworth Amtrak/Metrolink Station, another key Valley transportation hub. Metro’s construction team and design-builder are making good progress building the extension, which is scheduled to open in summer [continue reading]
This was one of the items approved at yesterday’s roundup of the Board of Directors meeting. Here’s more info in a news release from County Mayor/Supervisor Michael Antonovich’s office: LOS ANGELES COUNTY — The MTA Board of Directors unanimously passed a motion by Los Angeles County Mayor and MTA Vice [continue reading]
