A 51-year-old Commerce man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the stabbing death of Xuezhong Bao, 62, on the Gold Line on Tuesday. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, police were first called when the southbound train was at Irwindale Station and police met the [continue reading]
Some good news out of Washington DC: the Federal Transit Administration has approved $100 million in New Starts funding for the third section of the Purple Line Extension between Century [continue reading]
Update, 11:25 a.m.: The bus bridge has been canceled and train service has resumed. Train speeds restricted in area of accident due to damage to signal equipment. Unrelated, loss of power is impacting the Blue Line between Wardlow and Artesia stations and bus shuttles are being put in place. So [continue reading]
Embed from Getty Images Members of the public and private firms are invited to attend a Think You Can Solve Traffic Forum that Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation is holding on December [continue reading]
Dept. of Local Governmenting The deadly Camp Fire has also caused brutal air conditions in Northern California. Some transit agencies in the Bay Area responded wisely: Today, @VTA will offer [continue reading]
Metro has a better idea of the timeframe for opening the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington announced on Thursday at the agency Board’s Executive Management Committee meeting that some elements of work on the project are taking longer than expected due to complexities out of Metro’s control, meaning the [continue reading]
The last week has certainly been a long one. Among some of the transpo news that I’ve been saving… Very moving scene as we drive on 101 freeway in Thousand [continue reading]
The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority has released a plan to build the Gold Line Extension to Montclair in two phases due to the current trend in rising construction costs. The plan would build the first phase of Gold Line to La Verne at least two years ahead of schedule [continue reading]
Metro staff are recommending changing the names of Metro Rail and Bus Rapid Transit Lines to colors with letters to accommodate a growing system and make our rail and bus [continue reading]
As some of you may be aware, Metro is in the midst of updating its Long Range Transportation Plan. In plain English, this is Metro’s financial blueprint for the coming [continue reading]
