[scribd id=328764574 key=key-gSweKOugDZ1iLetY7u9r mode=scroll] Come one, come all! The Metro Board of Directors — the agency’s ultimate deciders on so may things — is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. on Thursday morning. If you’re interested in watching/listening to the meeting online, click here. A few things that might interest you: •The Board [continue reading]
Interesting stuff, especially given that Metro has about 2,200 buses. Metro has five electric buses but the rest of its 2,200-bus fleet is powered by compressed natural gas, known as CNG. [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has received $8 million in grants from the Federal Transportation Administration that will be used to deploy zero-emission electric buses on the Orange Line and replace the ferry terminal on Catalina Island. “Metro is appreciative of [continue reading]
Things to read/look at while sitting/standing/waiting/stuck on transit: The above photos are a fraction of the thousands of photos collected by Kipp Teague at his Project Apollo page on Flickr. Pretty [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. Newsflash!: Metro names Joshua L. Schank as its first Chief [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. Metro April news: Crenshaw work stoppage, all-door bus boarding and more (Streetsblog LA) A roundup of the many issues tackled by the Metro Board this month. Want to know your riders? [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. Today’s profile of a Metro rider by Zocalo Public Square: I carry a Bible on the bus, Don Felipe Drive to Pico Boulevard. In between bicycling stats: with Dennis Hindman [continue reading]
Metro held a media event this morning at its Central Maintenance Facility to demonstrate the amount of greenhouse gases reduced when a person takes public transit instead of driving. The concept of [continue reading]
Last year was a little busy around here, ‘little’ being a vast understatement. I’m guessing 2015 won’t be much different. Metro is in the midst of a $14-billion capital program — [continue reading]
Some of you have been asking about the strange looking bus cruising the Orange Line this morning. It’s a prototype 60-foot articulated electric vehicle – probably the largest all-electric bus [continue reading]
