Metro Art’s Through the Eyes of Artists poster series is celebrating its 20th year! For this commemoration, posters from our archive are on display on our buses. We are [continue reading]
Metro Art’s Through the Eyes of Artists poster series is celebrating its 20th year by displaying 20 posters from our archives on buses. Five more of the posters are now [continue reading]
Art on TAP cards are Metro’s smallest artworks that fit inside pockets and accompany transit riders on their journeys. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Metro Art’s Through the Eyes [continue reading]
Metro Art’s Through the Eyes of Artists poster series is celebrating its 20th year! To celebrate, 20 posters from our archive will be on display on our buses in the [continue reading]
Metro Art’s Through the Eyes of Artists poster series is celebrating its 20th year! For this commemoration, 20 posters from our archive will be on display on our buses in [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corCSsI9vt8&feature=youtu.be] I love the question posed in the opening of this 1989 video, suggesting that city planners could not have possibly been thinking of what Los Angeles had become: TrafficVille. My two cents: I think this video gives city planners too much credit. I’m not sure they were thinking of [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1k9WnU3Kk] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoW3HNg5Fs] Here are a pair of videos on the opening of the first segment of the Red Line on Jan. 29, 1993 — so 20th century! Thanks to the Metro Transit Library & Archive on digging these up and for all the helpful information on the 20th anniversary of [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. A Pasadena-bound Gold Line train crosses the Arroyo Seco earlier [continue reading]
It’s pretty amazing that in sprawling Southern California commuter rail was all but absent for most of the latter half of the 20th century. That changed when five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and Riverside — agreed to come together and foot the bill for a commuter [continue reading]
