Metro welcomed a contingent of officials and planners on Friday from DART, i.e. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and the Dallas metro area. The above photo was taken on the roof of Metro’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The folks from DART were in town to learn more about Metro’s existing and [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. Sound Transit to seek new tax, fees to extend light rail (Seattle Times) With traffic growing crunchier in the Seattle Metro area, the agency that runs regional transit says it [continue reading]
Our latest installment in our Then & Now series takes us to the intersection of 8th & Vermont in Los Angeles. The top photo was taken Sept. 2, 1950. I took the bottom photo last month, so roughly 63 years later. What’s changed? The Bank of America building is there [continue reading]
photo by dbessam, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo titled “anonymous,” taken on a Metro bus on Vermont Avenue. 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]
