Go Metro Weekends is The Source’s weekly guide to having a great weekend in L.A. without a car. All events are easily accessible (within a half mile walk) by Metro bus and rail lines. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and [continue reading]
A regular contributor at my previous blog, MetroRiderLA, has a saying that I think holds a lot of truth: “The worst transit agency in the world is the one you ride every day.” No mater where I am and how great I think a particular system or service may seem, [continue reading]
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Thursday concluded their investigation of the deadly 2008 Chatsworth Metrolink crash. The L.A. Times reports that federal investigators determined that the crash was caused by the “egregious” text messaging of the engineer, Robert Sanchez. This conclusion has the potential to shift liability and [continue reading]
The above video from the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) serves as a nice primer for the upcoming Southern California Transit Forum being held at Chapman University on February 5th. This all day event aims to bring together transit officials, advocates, local business leaders and policy makers to discuss the [continue reading]
Every six months Metro shakes things up with bus service changes meant to increase efficiency by modifying existing service based on a number of factors including ridership, budgetary concerns and public input. Although the most recent “shake-up” was little more than a month ago, Metro is already planning for proposed [continue reading]
The Daily Beast did some research and came up with a list of the 75 worst highways for commuting in America. It should come as no surprise that an L.A. freeway landed in the number one spot. The Hollywood Freeway wins the shameful award with a whopping 686 hours of [continue reading]
East L.A. native and media producer Armando Velez posted this video of the Gold Line Eastside Extension opening day celebration on Metro’s Facebook page. The video caught our attention because its beautifully composed black and white imagery cut to “We Are The People” by Empire of the Sun hinted that [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a new weekly feature at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. Local transit blog The [continue reading]
The votes have been counted and the results are in for LA Weekly’s first annual Los Angeles Web Awards – and Metro has walked away a winner. Thousands of LA Weekly readers nominated websites, blogs and Twitter feeds in 36 different categories specific to the Los Angeles web landscape. The [continue reading]
Go Metro Weekends is The Source’s weekly guide to having a great weekend in L.A. without a car. All events are easily accessible (within a half mile walk) by Metro bus and rail lines. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and [continue reading]
