Dept. of Giving Names to Machines: View this post on Instagram New tunnel boring machines! The TBMs are named Harriet, after Harriet Tubman, and Ruth, after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They will dig the Purple Line Extension between Beverly Hills and Century City. 🚇 #GoMetro #tunnelboring #purplelineext #westLA A post [continue reading]
Expo Line service at 7th St/Metro Center and Pico stations will be closed for 60 days beginning Saturday, June 22, for construction work that is part of the New Blue [continue reading]
Art of Transit: A trio of pics of Crenshaw/LAX Line edition, which is scheduled to open next year. I took these pics just before landing at LAX on Tuesday — [continue reading]
Work on the environmental studies for extensions of the Eastside Gold Line is resuming. The project — with $6 billion in funding from Measures R, M and other sources — [continue reading]
Over the last half year, several high-ranking Metro employees have left the agency for prominent jobs at other agencies. Most recently, Metro Chief of Security Alex Wiggins resigned to accept the position of CEO of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, and Chief Civil Rights Program Officer Dan Levy announced [continue reading]
Some more fossil-related news from the team building the Purple Line Extension: A piece of a horn that is believed to be from an extinct species known as a long-horned [continue reading]
The need to build infrastructure and improve what we already have begs a couple of questions: how do we get more folks to work in the transportation industry? And how [continue reading]
The Link Union Station (also known as Link US) is holding an Open House at Union Station this Thursday to discuss proposed changes made to the project as part of its Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR). The Open House will be held 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Union Station [continue reading]
The current fiscal year is coming to a close on June 30 and the Councils are preparing for FY2020. At their June meetings, all Councils will elect a chair and vice chair and adopt their work plans for the new fiscal year. Metro’s low-income fare program, LIFE, will present updates [continue reading]
Rail service on the southern section of the Blue Line resumes on Saturday after four months of work to modernize the line. One big change riders will see at the [continue reading]
