The annual parade begins at 8 a.m. on Monday and the game between Oregon and Wisconsin at 2:10 p.m. at the Rose Bowl. Both the parade and the game are easy to reach via Metro’s Gold Line light rail that runs between Pasadena and Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, [continue reading]
As 2011 winds down, the following is a look back at our more popular posts from the past year. Not surprisingly, many of the posts are from earlier in 2011, which tended to be heavy on big news. And equally non-shocking, readers showed the most interest in posts about Metro [continue reading]
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]
FTA COMPLIANCE REVIEW: For those who want to firmly understand the difference between a public transit agency and private for-profit business, take a look at the FTA’s Civil Rights compliance review of Metro released earlier this week. Bottom line: as a public agency, Metro can’t just serve any one constituency [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors holds their final meeting of the year tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters next to Los Angeles Union Station. The meeting, as always, is open to the public. Here’s the agenda. A few items worth watching: •(Item 11) The Board will consider amending an [continue reading]
The Silver Line debuted on this day in 2009, running seven days a week between the El Monte Station in the San Gabriel Valley, downtown Los Angeles and the Artesia Transit Center in the South Bay. (See the map after the jump). The bus makes that trip in under [continue reading]
A crack team of urban design and development experts from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) descended on Los Angeles last week to help Metro and the city of L.A. develop its vision for the area surrounding Union Station. After several packed days of interviews and site visits, the panel presented its [continue reading]
photo by Mishtun, via Tumblr Nice shot of the moon over Union Station last night. That’s Metro’s headquarters towering over the Metrolink train. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the photos [continue reading]
When we last checked in with the Wilshire rush hour bus lane project, the completion date that we posted was 2013. But Dana Gabbard at L.A. Streetsblog had a post Friday saying that the completion date for the project is now 2015. The project will put 7.7 miles of rush [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. Metro chooses six teams to submit master plan visions for Union Station (Blogdowntown) Metro staff have recommended to the board of directors [continue reading]
