50 Years Ago This Week: Planning The El Monte – Century City Backbone Route (Complete With Nuclear Fallout Shelters, Large-Capacity Helicopters And A Beverly Hills Subway) The title says it all but Metro’s digital resources librarian Kenn Bicknell spells out exactly what happened 50 years ago this week in the [continue reading]
Bike Week is wrapping up today, so I thought I would throw this completely self-serving question out there to Source readers: what kind of bike should I buy? Background: I was gifted a Diamondback Topanga mountain bike when I moved to California in 1994. I’ve had it ever since and [continue reading]
It’s another great weekend to Go Metro – there’s fantastic cultural, music and walking(!) events all across our great city. Tonight make sure to show your TAP card when you take the Gold Line to ArtNight Pasadena for discounts on ArtNight merchandise. Saturday is packed with stuff to do, including [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. [vimeo width=”600″ height=”338″]http://vimeo.com/21034894[/vimeo] Ban Cars In L.A.’s Downtown? An Idea That Just Might Work (GOOD) The above video was produced by Cal [continue reading]
photo by Frederic Mancosu, via Flickr As I’ve written several times lately, you don’t need a big fancy camera to take a nice photo. This one, of a train in Switzerland, was taken with an iPhone and obviously got some help with the use of the many great photo apps [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 & Long Beach Transit [continue reading]
Two motions regarding fare media were unanimously approved today by the Executive Management & Audit Committee. This first motion converts Metro calendar-based passes into “rolling” passes. Current calendar-based passes are good for the specific week or month they are purchased (i.e. a monthly pass bought in May is only good [continue reading]
Here are a few pics taken around the area by Metro staff of Bike to Work Day…
Here’s the item from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: We successfully concluded the traffic simulation being conducted at three East Los Angeles intersections located along the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension. The six days of testing began on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. The traffic simulation modified the [continue reading]
photo by Downtowgal, via submission This is a nice shot. There’s some blur to convey movement — but not too much. The framing gives viewer an idea how large the articulated buses are. And the bright red looks good offset against the washed out sky. The photo was taken near [continue reading]
