Ride Metro FOR FREE on California Clean Air Day on Wednesday, Oct. 5!
California Clean Air Day is Wednesday, Oct. 5, and Metro is offering free rides on our bus, rail and bike share systems! Use the Transit app or the trip planner [continue reading]
Free Metro bus, rail and bike share rides on Earth Day — Friday, April 22
As has become custom in recent years, Metro will be offering free bus, rail and bike share rides on Earth Day — Friday, April 22 — in recognition of public transit’s role in helping improve the environment. And, in particular, transit’s role in reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change. [continue reading]
Preview of July’s Metro Board of Directors meeting
[scribd id=419544938 key=key-R9MMtO99z1tEo8bf3pHv mode=scroll] pdf here The Metro Board of Directors will hold its July meeting this Thursday at 10 a.m. at Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station in downtown L.A. As always, the meeting is open to the public and will be live-streamed here. Please note the 10 a.m. [continue reading]
Meeting people on the bus, Traxx, Green New Deal: How We Roll, April 30
Traxx Restaurant: if you walked through Union Station today you may have noticed that Traxx restaurant and its bar have closed. Here is Metro’s statement: Metro is disappointed by Tara [continue reading]
Want to save a glacier? Trying riding transit; HWR, April 17
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Overheard LA (@overheardla) L.A.'s iconic Union Station turns 80 this May. The largest train terminal in the Western United States opened [continue reading]
Metro again offering free rides on buses and trains to celebrate Earth Day
As planets go, ours is a beaut. In celebration of Earth Day on Monday, April 22, Metro is offering free rides on our buses, trains, and bike share bikes. The [continue reading]
How We Roll, June 2: climate change gets its day in the sun, sort of
Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (@metrolosangeles) Things to listen to whilst transiting: I’m greatly enjoying season [continue reading]
Looking for a way to fight climate change? Try taking transit, walking or biking
As you may have heard, climate change has been in the news lately. Here is what we will say about that: the same thing we have been saying. Which is: generally [continue reading]
How We Roll, January 25: Gov. Brown’s push to do something about climate change
Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: All f the above slides/tweets, btw, were created by agencies of the United States government. Song of [continue reading]
How We Roll, Jan. 18: if climate change isn’t your thing, try riding transit
Coming soon: we’ll have a post up this afternoon about service Saturday to the march in DTLA. We’re getting a lot of questions. Art of Transit 1: View this post [continue reading]