photo by Mikael F, via Flickr A striking self portrait taken with an iPhone on a bus in Vasterbotten, Sweden. Mikael used the Hipstamatic app with the John S lens and Ida’s 1969 film, the same two filters I’ve found that often deliver good results. On a somewhat related note, [continue reading]
The perils of being an early-adopter: I was recently surprised to discover that my 3 year old TAP card had expired. And I’m not the only one. We received this tweet today: @blinkie Tried to load my TAP card with a day pass and the machine said it expired. @metrolosangeles [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5RDy3GD6q8&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] As many of you are surely aware, there’s been several homemade videos floating around the web about Carmageddon. Here’s one that is G rated — as in “government website appropriate” — and is quite funny.
When the I-405 Countdown to Closure clock rolls into zero at midnight on July 16, the by-now onerous warning will morph into high-definition images streamed live from metro.net for a world-wide view of the demolition work on the Mulholland Bridge during Carmageddon weekend. The countdown clock, a web widget downloadable in [continue reading]
photo by Pete Stasiewicz, via Flickr Very cool photo of the Chicago El going over the Lake Street bridge. Pete took the photo from the Clinton station using a Sony DSLR-A700. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com [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. Jet Blue flights between Long Beach and Burbank sell out (Jet Blue) The two round-trip flights — for $4 a seat — [continue reading]
Here is the new PSA from the Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the 405 shutdown over the Sepulveda Pass that begins late Friday evening and is scheduled to last until 5 a.m. Monday.
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. Green Line Due to maintenance work occurring 9am to 2pm, westbound trains to Redondo Beach will run 4 minutes earlier than regular schedule. Westbound [continue reading]
We’ve pored over the maps and corridor drawings, and we’ve belabored the financing issue. But throughout the process, there has been a lack of planners and designers providing Californians with a vision to believe in, with an image of what life could be like with high-speed rail. I’m paraphrasing Dana [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73WhUXn3tUA&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] Check out the preview above of a 30-minute program on Carmageddon that was produced by UCLA and is scheduled to air tonight at 8 p.m. and again Friday at 9:30 p.m. on KCET. UCLA’s sprawling campus in Westwood is, of course, directly impacted by this weekend’s closure of the [continue reading]
