During his monthly oral report to the Board of Directors, Metro CEO Art Leahy told the Board: •In the wake of the accident on Wednesday in which a private vehicle struck a platform on the Harbor Transitway and injured six people, Leahy said that he would ask Metro staff for [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. Los Angeles Mobility Element community meetings start this weekend (The Source) Just a quick [continue reading]
It’s kind of an obvious statement: rail and busway stations are the gateway for the tens of thousands of passengers entering the Metro system each day. And since most people have to spend at least a few of minutes at stations, the quality of time spent there is crucial to [continue reading]
The new Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center will serve the Blue Line and numerous Metro bus lines. Here is the news release from the city of Compton: MEDIA ALERT City of Compton_ MLK Grand Opening
Sheriff’s Deputies and Los Angeles Police Department officers this morning participated in a traffic enforcement operation on about seven-mile stretch of the Blue Line from the Florence station to Artesia. It’s in a section of the Blue Line in which trains run at speeds up to 55 miles per hour [continue reading]
As many of you know by now, the Regional Connector’s Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report was released last Friday. (News release and Exec summary here). The public review period begins today and the Metro Board of Directors will consider the report at their February meeting. Here are some of the highlights [continue reading]
Here’s the news advisory issued by Metro: Downtown L.A. Blue Line stations to close evenings of Saturday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 8, for Expo Line systems integration work Work hours are Saturday and Sunday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Bus shuttles replace trains between 7th/Metro and Washington stations. [continue reading]
With New Year’s Day on a Sunday this year, Metro has decided to run 24-hour service on all five rail lines and the Orange Line busway beginning on Saturday night — New Year’s Eve — until the close of service on Monday night, Jan. 2. Free rides on all Metro [continue reading]
The reason: more work on the junction of the Blue Line and future Expo Line. Here’s the news release: Due to continued construction work for the new Expo Line in the downtown Los Angeles area, service on the Metro Blue line will be replaced with bus shuttles on Sunday, Nov. [continue reading]
photo by @Spider_Dude, via Twitter The Blue Line as seen from the Wilmington/Imperial Green Line station in Willowbrook. Very cool photo — great colors! To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an [continue reading]
