Wednesday, October 5 201 102, 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 70, 71, 76, 78/79/378, 96, [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. For specific complaints and [continue reading]
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, flanked by a host of city, Metrolink and CicLAvia officials, held a press conference this morning at Union Station to promote Sunday’s CicLAvia event, calling it an opportunity for Angelinos to reclaim L.A.’s public space from the automobile. “We are reclaiming public space that we paid for [continue reading]
As The Source’s Kim Upton reported two weeks ago, the Long Beach Bikestation recently reopened with a striking new look. I decided last week to check out the new digs for myself. The trip from the Westside was surprisingly straightforward: one Big Blue Bus ride to 7th/Metro Center, a transfer [continue reading]
The notice to motorists is below and here’s yesterday’s post about work on the bridge over the eastbound 210.
A few readers have asked about the nearly hour-long delays on the subway on Monday afternoon and early evening. There were two issues: first, at about 4:30 p.m., there was an issue with a switch not working properly near Union Station that had to be verified and fixed. Then, at [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. Can’t Congress agree on highway spending? (Washington Post) The answer thus far is ‘no,’ Congress can’t even agree on something that has been sacrosanct: [continue reading]
photo by Blue_Moon_Rabbit, via Flickr Some kind of new iPhone is being announced later today by Apple, so I thought I’d post a nice iPhone photo today. This one was taken at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo and processed using the PhotoForge app. Very nice use of the tilt-shift effect. [continue reading]
Tuesday, October 4 201 102, 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 70, 71, 76, 78/79/378, 96, [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”335″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdzIl0kric[/youtube] This video from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority offers up an introduction to grade crossing design. Why are grade crossings so important? Because they represent the most vulnerable part of any rail line. The Foothill Extension will make use of state-of-the-art grade crossings to ensure [continue reading]
