Whether you hope to find love while Speed Dating on the Red Line or you’ve already got your Valentine’s weekend planned, you can all participate in the LoveMetroLA Instagram Photo Contest! Participate in LoveMetroLA Instagram photo contest for a chance to win great prizes from some of Metro’s Destination Discounts partners! The [continue reading]
Participate in LoveMetroLA Instagram photo contest for a chance to win great prizes from some of Metro’s Destination Discounts partners! The contest will be open from 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 14 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16. Here’s how to play: Follow @metrolosangeles on Instagram Take a selfie of [continue reading]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac3HkriqdGQ] Valentine’s Day is this Friday – as though anyone could forget with the explosion of red and pink hearts everywhere! – so to get you in the mood for romance in transit, here’s a great video filmed at Union Station starring Lifehouse. Have your own “meet cute” moment this [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! ART OF TRANSIT: Sea gull-like view of a Metro bus, courtesy of our Instagram feed. Residents living near Expo Line reduce car use, study says [continue reading]
Motions involving bathrooms at transit stations (or lack thereof), parking at transit stations (or lack thereof) and fares on the Orange Line (or lack of people actually paying for them) have all found their way onto the agenda for the Metro Board of Directors meeting this Thursday. In particular, the [continue reading]
em>Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! ART OF TRANSIT: The Blue Line in Long Beach, from our Instagram stream. Shutdown victims tribute (Flickr blog) Nice rundown of parks and other lovely [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Exploring the Green Line: from nowhere to [continue reading]
Hey — at least this post isn’t about the sequester! From Metro’s government relations squad: Today [Monday], the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY) released the text of legislation (H.R. 933) that would serve to fund the U.S. Government through the end of Federal Fiscal [continue reading]
A press event is being held this morning at the new El Monte Station. Here’s the news release about the ExpressLanes, which are scheduled to open at 12:01 a.m. tonight: Following on the heels of the successful opening late last year of 11 miles of Metro ExpressLanes along the Harbor [continue reading]
Today is the 100th birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who in December 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, reused to abide by the local bus company’s rules and surrender her seat to a white passenger. Parks died in 2005 but her stand that day triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and, the next [continue reading]
