Top performers who operate and maintain Metro’s bus fleet competed Saturday in the 36th annual Metro Bus Roadeo. The event was staged in the massive parking area of the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia. San Gabriel Valley Division Bus Operator Mark Holland, and the downtown L.A. Division 10 mechanics team of [continue reading]
Lifelong artist Elliott Pinkney, a muralist, sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Compton, spoke to a roomful of neighbors and students from Davis Middle School at a program hosted by the Compton Library on Tuesday morning. The topic was the original artwork for the poster “Compton,” in the [continue reading]
Update: 9 a.m. : Trains are running every 20 minutes until 3 p.m. for maintenance before returning to normal Saturday schedule. Follow @metroLAalerts on Twitter for updates. Major delays of more than 30 minutes that plagued service on the Pasadena side of the Metro Gold Line since Wednesday evening continued [continue reading]
Police activity that closed the Memorial Park Station in Pasadena concluded at 3:17 a.m. this morning. Delays of up to 20 minutes affected the Pasadena segment of the Gold Line from Del Mar to Lake stations. A bus bridge transported passengers to either destination and trains had to share a [continue reading]
Update 8:20 p.m.: Track is cleared at Memorial Park Station to allow trains to resume service and bypass Memorial Park Station. Bus bridge will transport passengers to Del Mar and Lake stations. Police activity on board a Metro Gold Line train stopped at the Memorial Park station has effectively closed [continue reading]
Major delays of more than 30 minutes that plagued service on the Pasadena side of the Metro Gold Line since Wednesday evening continued into the morning commute as crews completed repair of the overhead wire system that powers the trains and relocated two trains stranded on the tracks. Damage to [continue reading]
Update 5 a.m. Trains running every 20 minutes on Metro Gold Line in Pasadena area from Union Station to Sierra Madre Villa stations. Trains using single track between Indiana location and Allen Station to bypass stranded trains at Fillmore and Del Mar. No delays for trains serving East Los Angeles [continue reading]
Here’s an interesting perspective – your neighborhood as seen through the interpretive eyes of a local artist. A poster series here at Metro does just that. It’s called “Through the Eyes of Artists.” The series has produced 25 posters featuring as many neighborhoods since 2004. The result is a time-stamp [continue reading]
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of a passenger during a fight on a Metro Red Line train in Hollywood on Friday, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department reported today. The suspect was identified as 33-year-old Gene Sim, described as a transient, who was found in Buena Park [continue reading]
Here are a few images from photographer Gary Leonard’s pictorial on how the south half of the Mulholland Bridge came down the weekend of July 15 to 17. Above is a shot showing what the bridge looked like last Friday afternoon. The demolition began the evening of Friday, July [continue reading]
