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: Monday afternoon’s sunset as seen from Metro HQ. From our Instagram feed. Japan pitches its high-speed train [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4H-P6cg45E&feature=youtube_gdata_player] As summer winds down, just wanted to post a few notes from Source Planetary & Universe Headquarters, conveniently located next to Union Station and the county jail: •The International Olympic Committee on Saturday picked Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, spurning Istanbul (again) and Madrid. In 2017, the [continue reading]
First, I want to be very clear about something: I have no idea whether the Los Angeles region in the future will want to bid on hosting the Olympic Games. It’s a big decision involving a lot of money and many cities across the globe have wrestled with the question [continue reading]
Now that Culver City Station is open, take the Expo Line to The Jazz Bakery, currently holding court at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Go enjoy some amazing, innovative jazz. Friday’s performance stars Mary Stallings while Saturday features Dori Caymmi. General admission tickets are $30 and $25 respectively. Both shows start [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. DC Metro to add more rush hour trains, with updated map [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sLrwdOr7I[/youtube] Washington D.C. Metro has produced this handy video that describes its [continue reading]
photo by Justin C., via Flickr creative commons With California’s high-speed rail project chronically in the news these days, here’s a photo of a bullet train in Tokyo taken from the 40th floor of a high-rise tower. Great shot. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it [continue reading]
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 blog. Age of U.S. Cars Hits Record High 10.8 Years (Marketplace — American Public Media) In either a sign of the times or [continue reading]
photo by Blue_Moon_Rabbit, via Flickr Some kind of new iPhone is being announced later today by Apple, so I thought I’d post a nice iPhone photo today. This one was taken at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo and processed using the PhotoForge app. Very nice use of the tilt-shift effect. [continue reading]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14692378[/vimeo] Video by Samuel Cockedey, via Vimeo I thought we would try something different today with this time-lapse video of Tokyo and some of its transit systems by the photographer Samuel Cockedey. Click here to visit his website and check out some of his other fine work in time-lapse and [continue reading]
photo by Chris Jongkind, via his Flickr photostream These two shots are of the Shinagawa rail station in Tokyo. I posted both to contrast the wide and more narrow points of view, as well as the views of the station by day and by night. Chris has a net set [continue reading]
