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. Berman offers bill to curb copter flight paths (L.A. Daily News) The ubiquitous L.A. helicopter may get taken down a notch if [continue reading]
It’s the last weekend of July already? Go Metro this weekend for some summer fun before the summer’s gone! Lot of stuff going on this weekend: ESPN X Games 17, Grand Performances, B-Movies and Bad Science at the La Brea Tar Pits, Long Beach Crawfish Festival and more! Read on for [continue reading]
Photo by Stuck in Customs, via Flickr Enough color for you? This image of the Piccadilly Circus tube entrance is actually a blend of five photos, each taken with a slightly differently aperture, i.e. the HDR method. The camera used was a Nikon D3X. To submit a photo for the [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 Due to major Blue Line/Expo Construction, beginning at 8:30pm Friday and through Sunday Close, trains will operate only between Washington Station & [continue reading]
County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website just posted a good story on Metro’s lost-and-found operation, which tries to reunite thousands of missing items with their owners each year. In fact, the operation has just gone digital — it’s possible now for Metro customers to file a claim form online. As ZevWeb [continue reading]
By now reality is setting in: We need to dramatically increase our investment in transportation infrastructure just to maintain the status quo. But it looks like Congress isn’t willing to do it, at least in the near future. One might think that we’re sitting pretty in Los Angeles County thanks [continue reading]
I’m not sure what to make of this: a new study from a USC professor concludes that the air on the Gold Line light rail is cleaner than the Red Line subway — and that both are far cleaner than the air along freeway corridors. The reason for the difference [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. Deteriorating Transportation Infrastructure Could Cost America $3.1 Trillion (Huffington Post) A new report from the American Society for Civil Engineers calculates that [continue reading]
Photo by Danny Peyton, via Twitter A cool and colorful photo of Metrolink trains waiting to depart at Los Angeles Union Station. 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 an #artoftransit hashtag. [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]
