Photo by Jeremy Whiteman, via Flickr Nice night work capturing a northbound Gold Line train at the Del Mar station in Pasadena. Jeremy used a Nikon D90 with a shutter speed of 1.8 seconds, f/8.0 aperture and 400 ISO. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it [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. Brooklyn’s super convenient but mostly illegal private bus service (The Atlantic Cities) Well clearly I made a glaring oversight during my transit [continue reading]
Thursday, October 6 201 102, 110, 111/311, 611 – Florence Station Bus Stop Relocation Gold Line – Late Night System Maintenance Purple Line – Late Night Service ONLY btwn Wilshire/Western & Wilshire/Vermont Red Line – Late Night Track Maintenance Green Line – Midday System Maintenance 460 – Nightly Detour 16/316, [continue reading]
As planning and preliminary engineering continues to unfold for the Regional Connector project, Metro is evaluating different options for the three new stations — including building two of the stations with one entrance instead of two. The Little Tokyo Station is still configured to include two entrances to accommodate a [continue reading]
Wow – some good news out of Washington D.C. for the Foothill Extension project, which will extend the current Gold Line from Pasadena for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border. It’s great news because transit planners are always fretting — rightfully — on how to solve the “first mile-last mile” [continue reading]
When I moved to the Los Angeles area in 1994, proposed big residential developments were in the news all the time — and almost always very controversial because of their potential traffic impacts. After the 2008 real estate bust, a lot of those controversies have gone away. Developers don’t have [continue reading]
See that little link at the top right-hand corner of the page? That’s our comments policy! I’ve also posted it after the jump. By my own estimate, about 95 percent of the comments posted to The Source are approved. A few short notes about why some comments are not approved [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. Air pollution kills more than 2 million people each year, says World Health Organization (The City Fix) The World Health Organization released an unprecedented compilation [continue reading]
photo by Zach Behrens, via Twitter / Instagram As per usual, a nice Instragram photo by Zach, taken earlier this month on the Blue Line. Look after the jump for another shot he took on the Blue Line. BTW, now that the iPhone is going to have an eight megapixel [continue reading]
