First, some good news: A number of changes are in the works for Metro ticket machines. Among them: allowing customers to purchase stored value amounts of $3 (for those taking round-trips), new messaging on the machines to help customers make their first purchase, as well as some minor changes in [continue reading]
Passengers on the Metro Green Line this morning are experiencing delays of up to 7 minutes from Marine Station to Douglas Station due to power problems. Metro expects to have full service on the alignment restored before 11 a.m. For now, passengers from Marine Station traveling eastbound will board a [continue reading]
The Bus Riders Union and other groups held a protest march Thursday in Los Angeles and made several statements about Metro to the media and others. In the spirit of setting the record straight, here are a few facts about Metro: •1,222 affordable housing units are either planned, being built [continue reading]
There was a media event in Pasadena this morning to remind everyone that late night weekend service until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights begins tonight. “The new late night service on Metro Rail and the Orange Line is a win-win situation for everyone in Los Angeles County,” said [continue reading]
Video by Mario Noriega
METRO GOLD LINE SERVICE ALERT UPDATE: Repairs to overhead power system completed at Southwest Museum Station, and the bus bridge that shuttled passengers between Heritage Square, Southwest Museum and Highland Park stations has been canceled. Repairs to the overhead power system at the Southwest Museum Gold Line Station got underway [continue reading]
Repairs to the overhead power system at the Southwest Museum Gold Line Station will get underway after 9 p.m. this Friday and are expected to be completed by the close of service on Sunday night, well in advance of the Monday morning commute. In the meantime, Metro buses will shuttle [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_vQNS4k3A&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] Our friends at New Jersey Transit have a safety campaign underway to address a long-standing problem in the Garden State and pretty much everywhere elsewhere in the United States — people walking on train tracks. The two new videos — each just 30 seconds — do not mince [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]
The hefty Metro Blue Line rail cars make a hard day’s run between Long Beach and downtown Los Angeles, running the 22-mile stop-and-go course to the tune of 87,000 trips a year, 1.7 million service miles and 26 million boardings. Although the rail cars of the Blue Line’s original fleet [continue reading]
