Click on any photo to see larger. My colleague Dave Sotero and I had a chance today to visit the exploratory shaft being dug as part of the Purple Line Extension subway project. If you’ve been to LACMA recently, you may have noticed the big wall covered with Metro posters [continue reading]
All the details are in the above flier and we are certainly glad to help answer any questions for those interested in spicing up their commute, lunch time, rest of their lives, etc. If you need to see the Code of Conduct, here it is for you ladies and gentlemen out [continue reading]
In an attempt to burn some holiday-induced blubber yesterday, I made the short but scenic hike to Temescal Peak in Topanga State Park from the Palisades Highlands. As it happened, there were pretty nice views of the route the Purple Line Extension subway will take between downtown Los Angeles (left) and [continue reading]
UCLA takes on USC at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this Saturday at 5 p.m. Metro will be running enhanced service on the Expo Line to make it easy for fans of both teams to get to the game. The Expo Line has three stops near the Coliseum: Jefferson/USC, Expo Park/USC and Expo/Vermont. The enhanced [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=078jz_gpZP8&feature=youtube_gdata_player] Grab your Troika Card and check out this great video of construction work on the Purple Line Extension in Moscow — only thing missing is “Eye of the Tiger” from the soundtrack. Of course, Metro is gearing up for construction of the 3.9-mile first phase of the Purple Line [continue reading]
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! ART OF TRANSIT: A Red/Purple Line subway car in Metro’s maintenance shop. From our Instagram feed. BART workers go on [continue reading]
Here’s the update from Metro government relations staff from late Friday — doesn’t appear much has changed over the weekend: While the U.S. Senate has moved to adopt a continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating at a level consistent with sequestration levels ($986 billion), it remains unclear what [continue reading]
Here is some interesting data gathered from recent testing of gate latching at the Normandie, North Hollywood and Western stations on the Red/Purple Line subway. The takeaways: 1) one-way fares, stored value and pass sales significantly increased when the gates were latched; 2) Free entries — i.e. mainly those not [continue reading]
[scribd id=126411237 key=key-hcf3jhfyq0s39q2zrsc mode=scroll] The Metro Board will be considering a contract this month that would bring cell phone and wi-fi service to the subway system in Los Angeles. The Metro staff report on the contract is above. Once installed, cell service would be available throughout the public areas of [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corCSsI9vt8&feature=youtu.be] I love the question posed in the opening of this 1989 video, suggesting that city planners could not have possibly been thinking of what Los Angeles had become: TrafficVille. My two cents: I think this video gives city planners too much credit. I’m not sure they were thinking of [continue reading]
