If you’re looking for a fun Friday time-waster, the New York Times has a cool feature on their website that allows you to compare the current New York subway map (at right) to both the future map that will debut next month and maps of the past. Yes, that’s just [continue reading]
The holiday schedule is the same as the Sunday schedule. Here’s a link to timetables and maps for Metro bus and rail service.
The agency’s Board of Directors voted Thursday to launch a new round of studies to consider how to improve traffic in the area around the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena. Here’s the link to the report on the issue by Metro staff. The studies will initially [continue reading]
It has not been a pretty day at Metro headquarters. The regular monthly meeting of the agency’s Board of Directors has been interrupted several times by noisy protests from the Bus Riders Union and it appears that two members were arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies shortly after 3 [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. New rail cars criticized in Chicago (Chicago Tribune) The new cars, from [continue reading]
UPDATE: The meeting resumed, but interruptions from the BRU continue, with members demanding a hearing on the fare increase, despite the fact no hearing had been publicly scheduled, nor has the Board of Directors indicated they were going to rescind the fare increase, originally approved The agency’s Board of Directors [continue reading]
Metro held a live web chat yesterday with Mike Barbour, the chief of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, which is adding a carpool lane on the northbound 405 between the 10 and 101 freeways, among other improvements. Barbour fielded questions from readers. The transcript is below — and here’s [continue reading]
We recently asked readers to send us your questions about TAP, the electronic fare cards used by Metro and several other transit agencies in Los Angeles County. We received several dozen inquiries, which we boiled down to the questions below. The answers were written by Fred and I, based on [continue reading]
The photographer Matt Logue last year published a series of photos called “Empty LA,” which portrayed what Los Angeles would look like without cars. Now Ross Ching has taken that one step further with the above video showing a variety of roads in the area sans motor vehicles. It’s well [continue reading]
As the Expo Line is under construction between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, there remains one street-level crossing that needs state approval: at Farmdale Avenue, adjacent to Dorsey High School in South L.A. The original plan for the line was to have the tracks cross Farmdale at street level [continue reading]
