Once again Metro is offering free rides on its buses and trains on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. both nights. So if you get carried away celebrating or just need some time to contemplate some recent misbehavior from all that celebrating, look no [continue reading]
I posted recently about the new clock tower at the Gold Line’s Lake Avenue station. I didn’t have a pic at the time, but here’s one sent in by alert reader Ken Sterling. You might have guessed: the photo was not taken today. Also, here’s a link to a recent [continue reading]
The above headline was, in essence, the question posed by Joel Epstein in a column published last week at the Huffington Post. Epstein wrote: Why aren’t we asking the business and philanthropic community to help do their part by offering to pick up the tab on Metro station construction? With [continue reading]
I started my grazing of today’s transpo headlines close to home: Pasadena is looking for ways to reduce traffic, according to the Star News. Traffic on several major streets is up, bus use is down and no one is sure what should be done next. Raise the price of parking [continue reading]
The California State Assembly’s transportation committee held a hearing at Metro headquarters in Los Angeles on Friday, providing a chance for agency officials to say once again that state funding is necessary to keep buses and trains rolling. It was basically an informational hearing. Nothing was voted on or decided [continue reading]
A friendly reminder from the Metro press office that the L.A. Auto Show is easily accessible by mass transit — with the Blue Line’s Pico station right down the street from the Los Angeles Convention Center. Press release after the jump.
One of our big hopes for The Source is to include reader email and feedback. It’s one thing for us to tell you what Metro is thinking — and it’s equally important in my view to hear what customers and taxpayers think of Metro. With that in mind, here’s our [continue reading]
In his daily email to employees, Metro CEO Art Leahy had this nugget about ridership in the first week on the new Eastside Gold Line: The Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension began revenue service on Monday, November 16, 2009. Passenger activity for the first week of operations averaged about 11,000 [continue reading]
As I gazed at this morning’s transportation headlines, a question kept bouncing around my head: Which side is the front side of Union Station? The side that faces Alameda or the side with the transit plaza where all the buses go? The story that brought this to mind was one [continue reading]
We had a post earlier this week about upcoming bus service changes and the addition of new Silver Line bus service between El Monte Station and the Artesia Transit Center via the El Monte Busway and Harbor Freeway Transitway. A press release on the Silver Line is after the jump [continue reading]
