Go Metro to some great FREE summer events this weekend. Take advantage of Destination Discounts available at Grand Performances tonight and tomorrow. Downtown Burbank is throwing the Party of the Century tonight to celebrate their centennial, and you should hop on a Metro bus or Metrolink train to join the [continue reading]
Here’s one of the more unusual news releases I’ve seen regarding the shutdown of the 405 over the Sepulveda Pass next weekend:
Last week, we posted the link to the Westside Subway Extension’s Metro’s construction impacts fact sheet. This week we bring you info from the subway’s new property acquisition fact sheet, which you can find here as a website and here as a PDF. While this fact sheet is directly about [continue reading]
Andrew Cohen’s idea to bring a mini convenience store to the subway station at 7th Metro Center in downtown L.A. has lit up the local blogosphere. First reported by transit oriented realtor/blogger Brigham Yen, the story was then picked up by LAist, CurbedLA and Metrosity. The buzz has the owner [continue reading]
photo by Chris Walters, via Flickr A lot of different things going on in the frame in this photo. I like the dark of the car contrasted to the light of the street. The photo was taken with the iPhone’s Hipstamatic app. Where was it taken? Take a guess. 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. Angeleno apocalypse: Carmageddon (Time) The weekly magazine muses about the impact of next weekend’s 405 shutdown on our collective psyches and trots [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]
Rep. John Mica (R-Florida), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, today released the outlines for a proposed multi-year federal transportation bill. The good news: It contains some of the things needed to make America Fast Forward the law of the land. America Fast Forward would use a federal loan [continue reading]
The groundbreaking was held yesterday for Metro’s ExpressLanes project to convert the carpool lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways to congestion pricing lanes. The ceremony got a lot of media attention — as expected when the word “toll” and “freeway” land in the same sentence. The L.A. [continue reading]
As I’ve said many times before, the world of transportation finance is truly understood by roughly six people on the entire planet. The rest of us — on most days — would rather be spared the details. That said, everyone does understand this: paying for big transit projects is challenging [continue reading]
