A nice piece of awesomeness from the Metrolink folks, who clearly don’t want to have to listen to someone else’s terrible taste in music. Here’s the news release: Shhh! Keep it down – I’m busy enjoying my noise free commute Los Angeles – Beginning Oct. 3, a passenger car on [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]
The Metro Board will consider Thursday awarding a $37.3-million contract to CH2M Hill to prepare the environmental impact reports and preliminary engineering for a potential project to help improve traffic congestion in the area of the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena. Here’s the staff report from Thursday’s [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. Debunking the Cul-de-sac (The Atlantic Cities) The suburban cul-de-sac is a ubiquitous part of American life, but it wasn’t always that way [continue reading]
Top performers who operate and maintain Metro’s bus fleet competed Saturday in the 36th annual Metro Bus Roadeo. The event was staged in the massive parking area of the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia. San Gabriel Valley Division Bus Operator Mark Holland, and the downtown L.A. Division 10 mechanics team of [continue reading]
Photo by tjdewey, via Flickr Nice use of color on this image of an old bus in Minnesota. “Twin City Lines” has a classy ring to it, too. 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 [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Advisories page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter.
Hungry yet? As regular readers know, a TAP card is more than just a slowly-but-surely-getting-better way to pay for rides on Metro. It also entitles riders to all kinds of great local discounts that we feature on The Source every Monday. One area we’ve neglected lately is the Destination Discounts [continue reading]
After our Thursday post on the new Bikestation Long Beach, someone commented that the Washington D.C. Bikestation is a beauty so we rounded up a couple of images. As you can see, he was correct. Several of you also asked when the next Bikestation would open in our area. Among your [continue reading]
