Metro Board Chair Diane DuBois and Doug Failing, Metro Executive Director of Highway Projects, will answer phoned-in questions from TV viewers on Metro Live from 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 17. But you can send in your advance questions now. Just send them to livechat@metro.net and remember to include your name [continue reading]
Here’s an opportunity to offer your opinions and ask questions of Metro officials. Metro will host a one-hour call-in TV show on Thursday, Oct. 17 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Called Metro Live, the show also will stream on the web at citytv.org. Discuss Metro’s on-going and future street [continue reading]
Members of the Metro Speakers Bureau are available this fall to talk with children and young people about careers at Metro. Grade school is not too early to start. Metro employs bus and train operators, mechanics and maintenance people, clerks, bus and rail transportation and maintenance supervisors, as well as [continue reading]
Metro’s popular quarterly cable television show is for the first time in high definition so that those beautiful buses look even better than before. Trains, too. And of course the 30-minute show is filled with interesting stories about how transit is impacting our growing region, as well as suggestions for adventures [continue reading]
Here’s a reminder about a closure on Sepulveda Boulevard, starting tonight. Sepulveda Boulevard will be closed in both directions between Montana Avenue and Church Lane, starting at 10 p.m. tonight, Friday, Sept. 20, and continuing until 5 a.m. Monday. Sept. 23. The closure is required so that heavy equipment can [continue reading]
It’s fashion week in New York and even if you’re not interested in finding out what the hot color combos are this season, you really should take pride in the fact that New York is once again copying L.A. style. The hot trend at fashion week this year isn’t skirt [continue reading]
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY PHOTO COLLECTION Los Angeles Union Station celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2014 — a nice milestone for the facility that Metro purchased in 2011. We’re digging through any archive we can find for historical photos and thought we would share a [continue reading]
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
Raw food alert! Even if you’re eating for flavor rather than for health, LifeFood Organic restaurant in Hollywood is certainly worth a stop. It’s vegan in a good way — the way those of us who don’t think we could ever give up fish and cheese — find inspiring. And [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. ‘Neighbors’ group wants state Supreme Court to [continue reading]
