photo by Michael Villarmia, via Flickr creative commons Nice night-time shot of platform 7 at Los Angeles Union Station. 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 [continue reading]
photo by Angel Hernandez, via Tumblr The Patsaouras Transit Plaza and Metro HQ at the break of dawn on a recent day. The photo was taken with a Nikon D3000 with a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second, aperture of f/3.5 and ISO of 800. To submit a photo [continue reading]
photo by Steve Hymon/Metro I shot of the Union Station platforms on Friday from the 13th floor of Metro’s headquarters adjacent to Union Station. I used my iPhone 3Gs and the Hipstamatic app and then adjusted the color using the Camera+ app. I’m still waiting for some iPhone 4s transit [continue reading]
A few readers have asked about the nearly hour-long delays on the subway on Monday afternoon and early evening. There were two issues: first, at about 4:30 p.m., there was an issue with a switch not working properly near Union Station that had to be verified and fixed. Then, at [continue reading]
Metro has announced an Aug. 2 meeting in downtown L.A. (details below) to discuss the study process for a project to return streetcar service to downtown Los Angeles. It’s a city of Los Angeles project, but Metro planners are doing the studies. Planners will discuss the initial screening of routes [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. Carmageddon: Is all the hassle L.A.’s “carma”? (KCRW) I wouldn’t normally be inclined to pile on with the 405 closure news, but [continue reading]
My partner in crime here at The Source, Fred Camino, took this awesome photo of the (Metro owned!) Union Station waiting room the other day — with an iPhone. I wanted to post it to show, once again, what a great little camera many of you are carrying around in [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q80ahYgn2e4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Above is the latest Metro Motion video, which runs about 30 minutes. And below is the news release about the contents of this summer’s edition: Want to Visit L.A.’s Hot Spots This Summer? Metro Motion Will Tell You How If your summer forecast calls for baseball, the beach, concerts [continue reading]
U2 is playing Angel Stadium tonight and Saturday night, with both concerts scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The train is $7 round-trip from Union Station — a good deal — and probably a lot nicer than sitting in traffic on the 5 freeway or the stadium parking lot. Here [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. The Virtues of Investing in Transportation (New York Times) Another day, another article about the need for the U.S. to get serious [continue reading]
