18 seconds of Expo Line testing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJShfUxkCLQ[/youtube] This short video of an Expo Line train at the La Brea aerial station popped up on YouTube yesterday. Enjoy!
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, May 24
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. Golden Gate BART and other transit dreams (San Francisco Chronicle) Ever wonder why BART doesn’t venture north into beautiful and wealthy Marin [continue reading]
Transit forecast for Tuesday, May 24
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. Gold Line Due to vehicle testing after 9pm, southbound trains to East LA or Union Station may depart Sierra Madre Villa 2 minutes later than normal. Southbound [continue reading]
Metro CEO responds to motion asking for new station and underground segment on Crenshaw/LAX Line
One of the big Measure R projects moving toward construction is the Crenshaw/LAX Line, a light rail project that will run from the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards south through Inglewood to a connection with the Green Line near Los Angeles International Airport. In April, County Supervisor and Metro [continue reading]
Local members of House of Representatives seek to preserve federal spending for transit projects
The message in this letter is simple: it asks House Republicans to preserve funding for New Starts, the federal program that helps local areas build transit projects. It’s the pot of money that Metro wants to tap to help pay for two key and pricey Measure R projects: the Westside [continue reading]
Expo Line train testing moves east this week
Here’s the latest from the Expo Line Construction Authority:
Transportation headlines, Monday, May 23
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. Don’t pull the plug on high-speed rail (Sacramento Bee) The editorial prods Gov. Jerry Brown to fix the parts of the state’s [continue reading]
The art of transit
photo by Hunter Kerhart, via Flickr Pretty amazing photo, eh? It almost looks like a painting but it’s not — Hunter processed this photo with the HDR method, otherwise known as high dynamic range. The idea is use processing and/or multiple images to better expose both the lightest and darkest [continue reading]
Transit forecast for Monday, May 23
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. There are currently no planned service advisories, follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter for the latest updates.
Go Metrolink Weekend: Tour de California edition
One more possible thing to do this weekend: check out the start of Stage 7 of the Tour de California bike race in downtown Claremont. The race, in fact, is starting in front of the town’s Metrolink station before the course heads north for a grueling loop through the mountains [continue reading]