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. [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors is meeting tomorrow at 9 a.m. and one of the items to be discussed is the following motion by Los Angeles Mayor and Board Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa. After several rounds of bus service cuts and changes in the past few years — Villaraigosa voted against [continue reading]
1951: I Love Lucy debuts on television, the Korean War rages on and Los Angeles sees its first transportation agency run by government officials. The need for comprehensive, coordinated planning prompted the State of California to enact legislation creating the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, often referred to as “the [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. Not Carmageddon: 710 Freeway closure set in Southeast L.A. County (L.A. Times) You have to love a news story that starts with [continue reading]
Here’s the news release: Metro today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. will conduct a ventilation test on the Expo light rail line, inside the trench between Jefferson Boulevard at Flower Street and Expo Park/USC Station at Exposition Boulevard. The testing will continue Thursday, August 4, under the same schedule. [continue reading]
As many of you know, Metro has been working to increase space for cyclists on its subway and light rail cars — and will be taking out a few seats here and there to help. Metrolink is getting in the act, too — and vastly increasing room for bikes on [continue reading]
Congress has finished up its work on the U.S. economy and is preparing to flee Washington for their summer recess, which some people — such as U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood — are calling a “vacation.” One tiny little thing: Congress still hasn’t reauthorized the Federal Aviation Administration. Because the [continue reading]
photo by snoopoz, via Flickr We’ve run a bunch of photos of the Chicago El as part of our “art of transit” series. For one, the El is plenty photogenic. For another, gobs of Chicagoans take photos of the El and they’re all over Flickr, where I find many of [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. [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]
