Gimme shelters!
L.A. Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti this morning announced the launch of a bus shelter modernization program supported by Metro and LADOT that could eventually add amenities to [continue reading]
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Kim Upton
Metro’s Second Tour de Food: Shaved ice and AC for a sunny afternoon
Yes, it was hot outside but at Blockheads Shavery in Pasadena the green tea shaved ice was like eating snow and the effect – following the comforts of Irish fish [continue reading]
Is the Metro Rapid 720 L.A.’s most delicious bus line?
This Saturday, 6/13, Metro partnered with Zocalo Public Square and KCRW to present Metro Tour de Food: an afternoon of restaurant sampling along the Metro Rapid 720 line. The goal [continue reading]
Take a $7 tour of L.A. film history on the Sunset Boulevard bus
In the newest edition of Metro Motion, ride the Sunset bus from downtown L.A. to PCH and travel through filmmaking history. From the famous stairway up which Laurel and Hardy pushed a piano (and won an Academy Award!) to the garage where Walt Disney first penned Mickey Mouse, the Metro [continue reading]
Invite Metro to your school career day
Members of the Metro Speakers Bureau are available this spring to talk with children and young people about careers at Metro. Grade school is not too early to start! Metro employs more than 9,000 full-time staff, including bus and train operators, mechanics and maintenance people, clerks, bus and rail transportation [continue reading]
It’s Oscar weekend. Why not visit a few Academy Award sites to get you in the mood?
Ask any Metro bus operator what tourists want to see when they hit Los Angeles and the answer is usually, “Hollywood.” The sad news is that when they finally reach Hollywood, disappointment is inevitable. “Where are the stars?” they ask the operators. The answer, as those of us who live [continue reading]
Metro will speak at your next meeting
The Metro Speakers’ Bureau will provide free presentations throughout Los Angeles County on a variety of transportation topics: –Update on Measure R projects for your neighborhood –New ridesharing options such as carpools and vanpools –Metro’s On the Move Riders Club for seniors learning to navigate the system –Transit-oriented development –Careers [continue reading]
Find out what new transit is coming to your neighborhood
Tired of sitting in traffic? Concerned with climate change? Want to find out what new rail and bus lines are coming to your neighborhood? The Metro Speakers Bureau can help. The Speakers Bureau provides free presentations throughout Los Angeles County on a variety of transportation topics, including jobs at Metro. [continue reading]
What do traffic reporters think?
In the newest edition of the Emmy-award winning show, Metro Motion joins Los Angeles traffic reporters to witness what they see in dark and daylight. What’s the best day to drive? What’s the worst? What should we do to improve mobility? In another segment we get a lesson on [continue reading]
Metro electric bus prototype charging into the future
Some of you have been asking about the strange looking bus cruising the Orange Line this morning. It’s a prototype 60-foot articulated electric vehicle – probably the largest all-electric bus [continue reading]