Here’s the email that went out this morning from Foothill Extension Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian on the bridge over the eastbound 210 freeway in Arcadia: Early this morning, Skanska completed the last of three deep (110 foot deep, 11 foot diameter) foundations for the I-210 Bridge – a significant [continue reading]
Photo by Jeremy Whiteman, via Flickr Nice night work capturing a northbound Gold Line train at the Del Mar station in Pasadena. Jeremy used a Nikon D90 with a shutter speed of 1.8 seconds, f/8.0 aperture and 400 ISO. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it [continue reading]
Wow – some good news out of Washington D.C. for the Foothill Extension project, which will extend the current Gold Line from Pasadena for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border. It’s great news because transit planners are always fretting — rightfully — on how to solve the “first mile-last mile” [continue reading]
The city of South Pasadena has made big plans to become more bike-friendly. The city just announced that it intends to build more than 24 miles of connecting bikeways that will create a citywide bicycle network to connect schools, library, parks, shops, the Metro Gold Line and Metro bus stops. [continue reading]
Work on the bridge that will take the Gold Line Foothill Extension from the median of the 210 to the south side of the freeway continues. Here’s the alert from the Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the 11.5 project from Pasadena to Azusa:
Because of the fatal stabbing on the Red Line in August — the first slaying in the history of the subway since it opened in 1993 — there has been some understandable discussion about safety and crime on Metro buses and trains. I sat down with Commander Patrick J. Jordan [continue reading]
[youtube width=”600″ height=”367″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv96zk5nnAE[/youtube] The Nutty Nomads are a pair of urban explorers who happen to be sisters that love to document their adventures in L.A. Last week they tweeted @MetroLosAngeles to let us know about their latest video: Metro Challenge. The challenge? Visiting some of L.A.’s best sites without a [continue reading]
[vimeo width=”600″ height=”338″]http://vimeo.com/27498542[/vimeo] On Saturday, September 3, Metro is once again partnering with a summer music festival to provide extended late night rail service so that concert goes can leave their cars at home. This time it’s the FYF Fest – featuring acts such as Descendents, Broken Social Scene, Explosions [continue reading]
photo by jim6773, via Flickr Good timing and good shot taken from the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo station of a mural on the side of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA along Alameda Street. Being watched is a little intimidating, eh? To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
Police activity that closed the Memorial Park Station in Pasadena concluded at 3:17 a.m. this morning. Delays of up to 20 minutes affected the Pasadena segment of the Gold Line from Del Mar to Lake stations. A bus bridge transported passengers to either destination and trains had to share a [continue reading]
