By now it should be no secret that a massive chunk of the 405 freeway will be closing the weekend of July 15 – the big countdown clock on our sidebar kind of gives it away. If the countdown clock, press releases and media coverage (“carmageddon” anyone?) haven’t made it [continue reading]
I’m betting most of us would ratherdrive staples into our own heads than take more time to contemplate California’s 24-7-365 perpetual state budget crisis. Gov. Brown vetoed the latest proposal on Thursday. In one sentence, here’s what you need to do on the transportation funding front: With no budget, California [continue reading]
Good news — the final environmental study for the Regional Connector project — to link the Blue, Gold and future Expo lines — is almost done. The project team has scheduled three meetings to talk about some of the issues they’re working on. Here’s the announcement: Metro is currently completing [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. The costs and savings of bicycle commuting (Forbes) In this guest post, So Cal resident Duran Valdez crunches the numbers on his [continue reading]
photo by AlyZen Moonshadow, via Flickr This is one of those iPhone photos that I think just looks cool because of the processing. It was taken from a pedestrian overpass over a railway near Perth, Australia. The processing was done with the FotoMuse and Scratchcam apps — the FotoMuse app [continue reading]
U2 is playing Angel Stadium tonight and Saturday night, with both concerts scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The train is $7 round-trip from Union Station — a good deal — and probably a lot nicer than sitting in traffic on the 5 freeway or the stadium parking lot. Here [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. Green Line Due to system maintenance from 9am to 2pm, westbound trains to Redondo Beach will run 4 minutes earlier than regular schedule. Westbound [continue reading]
Nice video recently posted by the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition on the proposed bike lane along 7th Street and serve as an alternative to riding on very busy Wilshire Boulevard. The lane would eventually stretch from Catalina Street in Koreatown to Soto Street in Boyle Heights and is scheduled [continue reading]
photo by Betty Rube, via Twitter This is one of my favorite “art of transits” yet: Betty took this photo Monday at the Artesia Transit Center, tweeting “Is there an additional fare for huge stuffed animals? Poor bear. I think he was abandoned.” For the record, I’m unaware of the [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”371″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5J-2yGmpwU[/youtube] Still having trouble visualizing the exact route of Expo Line Phase I and II? Well, thanks to the wonders of modern technology and the passion of transit geeks, a virtual flyover over the entire line has been produced. Using Google Earth satellite imagery, YouTube user ExpoLineFan really [continue reading]
