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. Subway makes tracks toward Westwood (ZevWeb) The article provides a detailed look at the [continue reading]
It’s Oscar weekend, and if you’re like me, you’ll probably be avoiding Hollywood like the plague. For those of you not busy watching all those Oscar-nominated movies before Sunday, here are a few activities around town. The Last Bookstore, a used book buyer/seller located in downtown’s Historic Core, is hosting [continue reading]
The Metro Regional Connector team held an open house last night in Little Tokyo to discuss the crucial Measure R project now that it has reached an important milestone: the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (which you can find in its entirety here). As regular readers will recall, [continue reading]
Living in downtown Los Angeles in the Historic Core means there’s no shortage of things to do. This weekend, I’ve managed to narrow it down to three choices. Learn to move in a whole new way at “A Taste of Los Angeles Belly Dance” on Saturday. The event, hosted by [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. Age of U.S. Cars Hits Record High 10.8 Years (Marketplace — American Public Media) In either a sign of the times or [continue reading]
After four long years, the westbound side of the First Street Viaduct reopened to traffic this week. The bridge was closed in order to build the Metro Gold Line extension to East Los Angeles. The First Street Viaduct is the second oldest of the classic Los Angeles River bridges designed [continue reading]
Regular Source readers may have noticed the Fred Camino byline missing from posts during the last month. The reason: I’m no longer a contributor for The Source because I’m no longer an Angeleno. Life has taken me to the opposite side of the country and I’m now living my car-free [continue reading]
photo by @Spider_Dude, via Twitter Nicely processed photo taken in downtown Los Angeles, which certainly has a way of looking very…un-modern. 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 #artoftransit hashtag. [continue reading]
Here’s the good word from the folks at Metro planning the Regional Connector: On November 10 and 11, 2011, Metro is scheduled to perform an excavation next to the Japanese Village Plaza Parking structure to confirm the depth of the existing foundation. The work will be performed on the sidewalk [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]
