Business Interruption Fund Spotlight: Los Angeles Eye Care
Los Angeles Eye Care is located along the Little Tokyo area of the Regional Connector Transit Project. It is owned and operated by Dr. Gregory Kame who took over the [continue reading]
Excavation underway for Regional Connector rail tunnels
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Regional Connector project recently began its journey beneath downtown Los Angeles. The 400-foot-long TBM, known as ‘Angeli,’ will dig the twin tunnels that will connect [continue reading]
How We Roll, Feb. 21: bad traffic, broken umbrellas and dissent
From the Dept. of Expired Umbrellas: The worst of the storm blew through here on Friday but continued throughout the weekend up north. Skiers coming home from Lake Tahoe yesterday [continue reading]
Fresh pics: construction of the Regional Connector’s Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station
I shot these last Tuesday. Please feel free to use on media, blogs and social media. The Regional Connector project is a 1.9-mile rail tunnel in downtown Los Angeles that [continue reading]
How We Roll, Jan. 24: will city life remain popular, ridership & feds vs infrastructure
ICYMI: Metro says there were 592,000 Metro Rail boardings on Saturday, which included the well-attended Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles. That compares to the average of 231,897 boardings on Saturdays during [continue reading]
How We Roll, January 23: so anything interesting happen transit-wise over the weekend?
There are too many women’s marchers for Metro trains to carry (SGV Tribune) The Red Line at the women’s march (Reddit) Huge crowds swarm Metro’s trains and buses for Women’s [continue reading]
Win a 7-day TAP card as part of Eat Shop Play’s ‘Fortune Fridays’ contest
Eat Shop Play Local As L.A. Metro builds $8 billion of new rail lines in Los Angeles County, we created Eat Shop Play as a unique program to lessen the [continue reading]
New video: Regional Connector’s tunneling machine arrives at 1st/Central station
The Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (Angeli, as she’s known around these parts) has arrived at the 1st St/Central Avenue Station site in Little Tokyo. After lowering the machine one [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Mitsuru Café
Mitsuru Café is located within Japanese Village Plaza and sells traditional Japanese finger foods such as imagawayaki (red bean cakes), takoyaki (octopus balls), and mitarashi dango (mochi rice cake). The [continue reading]
2016: two rail openings, bike share, a ballot measure and a very busy year for Metro
This was my seventh year at the agency and, by far, 2016 was the busiest. I usually like to put the end-of-the-year highlights in chronological order but I think four [continue reading]