See updated notice below for next week’s testing schedule. Here’s the latest notice from the Expo Line Construction Authority, which is building the light rail line. Click here for a full PDF document with the notice in English and Spanish.
photo by floato, via Flickr Nice silhouette of a train crossing a viaduct in the English countryside near Dentsdale. The photo was taken in 2007 with a Kodak C330 Zoom. 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 [continue reading]
Blue Line Due to major Blue Line/Expo Construction, beginning at 8:30pm Friday and through Sunday Close, trains will operate only between Washington Station & Long Beach Transit Mall. Trains will operate on regular schedule. Shuttle Buses (Line 801) will operate between Washington Station & 7th/Metro Center. Please be advised to [continue reading]
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that the White House is changing course when it comes to the federal surface transportation funding bill. Obama is now calling for a road-construction bill that would put people to work immediately and get existing infrastructure projects underway. This represents a [continue reading]
County of Los Angeles Supervisor Gloria Molina and County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation invite Angelenos to Go Metro to free cultural events in South L.A. and East L.A. – part of the ArtsFest 2011. The fun starts tonight at 6pm at Roosevelt Park, steps away from [continue reading]
The Southern California Association of Governments (aka SCAG) held the last of its 18 community workshops yesterday in Santa Monica as a part of the process of updating its Regional Transportation Plan for 2012. Approving an RTP every four years is a prerequisite for regions to receive federal funding for transportation [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. Transit investment falloff hurts business (Railway Age) A study released Wednesday by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) says 74 percent of private sector [continue reading]
Major delays of more than 30 minutes that plagued service on the Pasadena side of the Metro Gold Line since Wednesday evening continued into the morning commute as crews completed repair of the overhead wire system that powers the trains and relocated two trains stranded on the tracks. Damage to [continue reading]
photo by Ezra Goldschlager, via Flickr creative commons Schools across the region are starting back up and we all know what that usually means: a bump up in area traffic. In the meantime, I’m still enjoying the slew of Carmageddon photographs that have popped up on the Internet. This one [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. Blue Line After 8:15pm, Blue Line trains run every 30 minutes due to construction work for the future Expo Line. Please see schedule here. Dates: today only. Red/Purple [continue reading]
