[youtube width=”600″ height=”371″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6f2U6JLKJo[/youtube] Faye Kingslee’s “Heartbeat of L.A.” (above) took grand prize in last year’s Transit Flicks Video Contest with its pristine production, easy-on-the-eyes actors and charming story about finding love on the Metro subway. Transit Flicks is back for another year and transit savvy auteurs are invited to get [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. 405 closure: Westside businesses to go about their business (NBC LA) NBC offers a fresh take on the 405 close in July, [continue reading]
photo by Tetsuya Ishiyama, via Flickr Nice photo of a train along the Keihin Electric Express Railway Company, taken in Kawasaki, Japan, with an iPhone, using the HDR function to better capture the different ranges of light in the scene. The train connects the Haneda Airport to nearby cities. To [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]
Ever since I learned about the Expo Line — and the path that trains used to travel a century ago — I’ve relished in stumbling across bits and pieces of the old infrastructure that still dot the Westside. The original tracks were built by a predecessor to the Southern Pacific [continue reading]
View Larger Map Public officials held a groundbreaking on Wednesday morning for a project to improve the Carmenita/I-5 interchange. As the Google satellite view above shows, the bridge is two lanes wide at present. A new bridge will widen it to 10 lanes, according to Caltrans, with a scheduled completion [continue reading]
Here’s the update from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the line from Pasadena to Azusa. There’s a nice gallery of renderings and photos at the Construction Authority’s website. This is a Measure R funded project and the update says construction will start in the [continue reading]
photo by Stu Mayhew, via Flickr Nice shot taken with an iPhone’s Hipstamatic app of a foggy London train platform. 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. Many of [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meet on Thursday for a meeting that should be fairly subdued compared to some of their recent monthly get-togethers. The item likely to be of interest to most people: The Board must formally approve free subway and Orange Line busway service on the weekend of [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. Right track for Los Angeles is light rail (Daily News) Columnist Doug McIntyre relaxes on a train on the East Coast and [continue reading]
