Metro Bike Share celebrates 200th station
There’s a new way to get around in Silver Lake – Metro Bike Share just installed its 200th station at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Silver Lake Boulevard. Join [continue reading]
Opt outside this summer with these six urban hikes
Get to know your neighborhood a little better. Get fit. Get back to nature without having to pack up and leave town. Whatever your summer goals are, below are a [continue reading]
Metro Bike Share fares to be reduced — and system to be expanded
The Metro Board today approved several major improvements to its countywide bike share program that will make using shared bicycles more affordable and accessible for short-distance trips. Here is the staff [continue reading]
It’s time to spring forward and get caffeinated (thanks a lot, Daylight Saving)
Spring forward with Daylight Saving Time! Or, if you’re more like me, shuffle forward towards the inevitable griping as we all lose an hour of sleep this Sunday. The morning after DST might [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Wednesday, January 7
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! MTA chief Arthur T. Leahy to step down in April (L.A. Times) Coverage of yesterday’s announcement by Art that he will be leaving Metro on [continue reading]
Go Metro Weekends, May 25-28
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2hG0TAoUc&feature=relmfu[/youtube] For those of you not going out of town, take advantage of the long weekend and check out some of the great events happening around the city. The legendary queen of Egypt has just settled in at the California Science Center. Cleopatra: The Exhibition features the largest collection of [continue reading]
The art of transit
photo by Steve Hymon/Metro This isn’t exactly a secret spot, but I had never visited the old Pacific Electric streetcar right-of-way in Silver Lake. About .8 miles of the old alignment still exists on open property between the 2 freeway and Fletcher Avenue — various developers have had no luck [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Monday, March 19
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. The odd link between commute direction and marital satisfaction (The Atlantic Cities) A new study [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, March 6
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Los Angeles seeks pedestrians (The Atlantic Cities) Angelenos who care about public space and [continue reading]