Metro, in partnership with agencies and organizations throughout L.A. County, is sponsoring “Bike Week L.A.” this May 13-19. There’s a ton of cycling-related activities to get you on your bike next week. Here’s Metro’s news release. Metro Promotes Bicycle Activities and Festivities during Official “Bike Week LA” May 13-19 The [continue reading]
DiscoverLA.com (the LA Tourism and Convention Board) has this great photo of the Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station at night by Rita de Cassia Cavalcanti on its Facebook page, plus a beauty of Dodger Stadium at sunset. Check it out.
In the morning headlines today, we linked to an L.A. Times article bemoaning the bad traffic at Dodger Stadium. With that in mind, here’s a look at four ballparks in the U.S. that are easy to reach via regional transit systems. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, [continue reading]
HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN: The revised plan that was released Monday proposes to build 300 miles of high-speed rail track between Merced and the San Fernando Valley by 2021. It’s nice to see the initial segment of the project expanded to Los Angeles County, but there’s an obvious question here: Even [continue reading]
EXPO LINE UPDATE, SORT OF: I was along the Expo Line alignment early Saturday evening and it was exciting to see the number and frequency of trains running along the tracks between La Cienega and downtown L.A. at night. As for an opening date….still no official word. But I can [continue reading]
This is one of our occasional posts in which I express actual opinions… 1. Loved CicLAvia last month but I didn’t see anyone from Metro in any of the booths selling TAP cards to the masses. The cards are very useful and convenient — and I think it’s fair to [continue reading]
The Dodgers’ first home game of the season is tonight at 7:10 with an exhibition game against the Angels. The Dodger Stadium Express bus service between Union Station and Dodger Stadium also begins running this evening. A few basic details: •The bus is free for anyone holding a game ticket [continue reading]
That’s an average of more than 1,500 people per game that took the bus from Union Station to Dodger Stadium — pretty good numbers for the first full season of the bus service. Even better, more than 60 percent of the people who used the Dodger Stadium Express also used [continue reading]
Although the announcement of bus service returning to Dodger Stadium was made a couple weeks ago, local officials held a press conference today to formally introduce the new service, paid for by a $300,000 state anti-smog grant. The basics: ticket-holders to Dodger games can take the bus for free while [continue reading]
