Three Orange Line stations to be temporarily relocated later this month
MOL Construction Notice Press Release
Gold Line’s photo op with 2012 Rose Queen and Royal Court at Union Station
Metro Board Members Richard Katz and Pam O’Connor joined Metro Chief Operations Officer Lonnie Mitchell and the Tournament of Roses Queen and Royal Court at Union Station this morning to promote Metro and Metrolink services to the 2012 Tournament of Roses festivities in Pasadena. Officials announced Metro will operate all [continue reading]
Metro to run 24-hour service on Metro Rail and the Orange Line from night of Dec. 31 thru Jan. 2
With New Year’s Day on a Sunday this year, Metro has decided to run 24-hour service on all five rail lines and the Orange Line busway beginning on Saturday night — New Year’s Eve — until the close of service on Monday night, Jan. 2. Free rides on all Metro [continue reading]
San Fernando Valley’s big anniversary: Passenger rail service from LA to Van Nuys began 100 years ago
Transit users in the San Fernando Valley probably didn’t notice anything different last Friday when the second century of public transportation in the area got underway. December 16, 1911, was the first day of rail service from Los Angeles to Van Nuys, a development which quickly transformed the Valley from outlying area to commutable [continue reading]
The art of transit
photo by Kevin Hair, via Instagram Kevin took this awesome photo at the Orange Line’s Sepulveda station in Van Nuys using an iPhone 4s. The image was processed with the Leme Camera Pro and Snapseed apps. In an email, Kevin wrote: “This photo is somewhat symbolic for me. My place [continue reading]
A little more info on the Sepulveda Pass Corridor project
The part of the Metro website devoted to projects was recently updated with a little more information about a project that I know is near and dear the hearts of many Source readers: The Sepulveda Pass Corridor, which proposes to improve transit between the Westside and the San Fernando Valley [continue reading]
How do they do that? Part II
How do the street signal lights know to stay green a little longer or turn from red to green a little sooner when Metro Rapid and Metro Orange Line buses are approaching? After our original post some of you asked about train signal preemption, which is not the same thing as [continue reading]
How do they do that?
How do they do that? is a new series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly [continue reading]
Van Nuys Boulevard Rapidway community presentation now available
Metro planners and the city of Los Angeles hosted three community meetings last week to kick off a study that will identify options for improving transit service along the Van Nuys Boulevard corridor in the San Fernando Valley. For those who didn’t have a chance to attend, the presentation from [continue reading]
State awards $448 million in bonds to L.A. County transportation projects
Eight key transportation projects in Los Angeles County were awarded a total of $448 million in state bond money on Wednesday by the California Transportation Commission at their meeting in Sacramento. The Alameda Corridor East project received $336.6 million to help eliminate street crossings of the busy Union Pacific railroad [continue reading]