With public hearings underway on the Westside Subway Extension’s draft environmental impact statement/report (DEIS/R), there are a couple of new fact sheets recently posted to the project’s website that might be helpful. The first looks at how each of the five alternative routes performs in terms of boardings and other [continue reading]
photo by Gerardo Cornejo, via submission A nice sunny photo of two members of Metro’s fleet on Grand Avenue in front of Disney Hall. Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the day when the other side of Grand Avenue — currently a bunch of parking lots serving [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 blog. TV comes to the NY subway (New York Times) For now it’s just one line — the S train between Times Square [continue reading]
As many of you already know, the Board of Directors of Metro are scheduled to vote at their monthly meeting on Thursday on changes and cuts in the agency’s bus service. The cuts amount to about four percent of Metro’s overall bus service. Among the cuts: five rapid lines (the [continue reading]
The American Public Transportation Assn. issued the press release below. Ridership on light rail and the subway in Los Angeles County is among those that increased in the second quarter of 2010: Public Transit Ridership Shows First Increase Since Late 2008 In the second quarter of 2010, more than 2.5 [continue reading]
photos by Steven Frein, via submission I’m pleased that we’ve (finally) started to receive a trickle of good submissions of transit here in the Southland. This pair of photos shows the Gold Line in Little Tokyo — above a train travels eastbound on 1st Street and at right a Pasadena-bound [continue reading]
Here’s the link to watch the webcast at 6 p.m. of tonight’s public hearing for the Westside Subway Extension at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The hearing, of course, focuses on the draft environmental impact statement/report (DEIS/R) that was released earlier this month. Details on all five hearings [continue reading]
Due to ongoing safety inspections of rail cars, some subway trains on the Red and Purple lines may be shorter than normal this week — as some readers saw during their morning commute today. Trains are operating at their normal speeds and on their regular schedules.
I noticed that our friends at the Buzzer Blog in Vancouver ran a poll recently asking how many readers had actually loaded their bike onto a bus’ bike rack. The answer: about 60 percent of readers. Obviously it’s an unscientific poll targeted at cyclists in a very bike-friendly city. But [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 blog. Best argument he’s seen yet for high-speed rail (California High-Speed Rail blog) New saddle seats for airplanes are being marketed as a [continue reading]
