photo by Bradley Tollison, via Twitter As seen yesterday from Metro Rail near the Pico station for the Blue and Expo lines. The old-style Kings jersey definitely compliments this guy’s lid. Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals is in Newark at 5 p.m. Saturday. BTW, hockey-inclined readers should check [continue reading]
They can only cram so many people, of course, into Staples Center for Game 4 today between the New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings, with the puck dropping about 5:15 p.m.. But I’m guessing that interest in this afternoon’s game will draw a big crowd to L.A. Live and [continue reading]
Most downtowners in Los Angeles know that the second Thursday of every month means Artwalk. For those who just can’t get enough of the art – and let’s be honest, good food and drink – there is now another option available before the next Artwalk rolls around: Culver City Third [continue reading]
Here is the news release from Metro: Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa announced today that Metro will officially open to the public both the Culver City Station and the Farmdale Station along the recently opened Metro Expo Line on Wednesday, June 20 at 12 noon. In [continue reading]
As seen in the latest edition of Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s Weekly Web Flash: They were the first operators to board the new Expo Line for the testing runs. On opening day, [continue reading]
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: There’s a good exhibit at the Huntington Library though July 23 on the planning and construction of the 1,776-mile railroad between Sacramento and Council Bluffs, Nebraska. To be more specific, that’s 1,776 miles of rail built between 1863 and 1869. To put that in perspective, it took about [continue reading]
ALAN THOMAS: The slaying of Metro bus operator Alan Thomas on Sunday was — like so many crimes — beyond senseless. Alan was driving a bus in West Hollywood detoured by a bike race when a lone passenger, for reasons we may never really know, fatally shot him. Public transportation [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. Ten to 20 percent jump in Metro riders to downtown over the weekend [continue reading]
Traffic around downtown Los Angeles is probably not going to be a treat this weekend — particularly on Sunday. In the morning, the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California will shut down many streets before finishing at L.A. Live just before noon. The downtown portion of the race [continue reading]
Between baseball games, playoff games, concerts and bike tours, downtown L.A. is going to be pretty crowded this weekend. Try to take public transportation to avoid dealing with the mess of traffic and parking. Here is our earlier post about taking transit to downtown this weekend. Park at Union Station [continue reading]
