Transportation officials in the tri-county region of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties handed out Diamond awards Tuesday to Southland employers whose top-ranking rideshare programs provide employees with a full range of rideshare commuter options, services and programs. The Corporate Blue Diamond Award for 2011 was awarded to UCLA Transportation [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. Dates: today only. Lines [continue reading]
Note to readers: Due to some ongoing tech issues, we lost a couple of posts originally published on The Source this afternoon. We also lost the accompanying comments, which I haven’t been able to recover — my apologies. We did have a backup of the post, however. We recently invited [continue reading]
Included in last week’s official Nextrip launch was an informational video that included a sneak peak at some eye catching new bus stop signage This new signage – the first part of a larger initiative to update all bus stop signs – brings Nextrip information to each and every bus [continue reading]
There’s a lot on the agenda for the monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors, the politicians and appointees who get final say on Metro policy. A few highlights from the agenda: •(Item 1) The Board is also set to consider adding a Leimert Park Village station to the [continue reading]
photo by Eddy Mansoor, via Flickr Here’s a great tilt-shift photo of a bus in Malaysia. It was taken with a Canon EOS 7D and processed with Photoshop. Tilt-shift processing and/or lenses changes the focus, making images appear to be miniaturized. Several iPhone apps allow you to do this with [continue reading]
As the feel-good-edness of Bike Week wears off, I’d like to point your attention to maps getting some attention in the blogosphere. They were produced by UC Berkeley’s Transportation Injury Mapping System and show pedestrian and cycling injuries and deaths in relation to their proximity to schools between the years [continue reading]
Bike Week is officially behind us, and Bike Month is drawing to a close. But for those of us who caught two-wheeled fever — or already had it — there’s no need to fret — lots of great bike projects are on tap for the city of L.A. In March, [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here to [continue reading]
Photo by Mr. Photo, via Flickr Another interesting photo taken with an iPhone camera, this time of Grand Central Station in New York. Look closely and you can see the faint outlines of some passerby — an indication that this was likely taken with a long shutter release. And, yes, [continue reading]
