Hey, it’s Monday. You can either start your week by actually working or by reading all the fascinating stories about transportation that the Metro library has found by scouring the entire Internet. Three stories, in particular, caught my eye. The Human Transit blog has a smart post about budget-inspired service [continue reading]
Here’s the thing about technology: when it works, it’s great. But sometimes it doesn’t and life becomes one big “page load error.” As we posted yesterday, Metro was planning to have a new version of its website up and running Friday. But a serious server glitch has postponed those plans [continue reading]
Does anyone at the Metro library ever sleep? I doubt it. Plus, why sleep when there’s an entire Internet that must be scrubbed to find the latest, greatest transportation headlines for your reading pleasure. The great transportation writer Tom Vanderbilt has a story at Slate that asks why the press [continue reading]
We launched the Source quickly last month in time to report on the October meeting of the Board of Directors. But I wanted to circle back and try to better explain something that happened at the September meeting — when the Board voted to seek federal funds for both the [continue reading]
Here are today’s headlines courtesy of the Metro library, the same folks who will not stop until everything — and I mean everything — is a series of 1s and 0s. A few stories caught my eye this morning. Amtrak is going to put free wi-fi on its Acela trains [continue reading]
I was in Springdale, Utah, over the weekend, visiting nearby Zion National Park. At one point I ducked into a gear store and spied this T-shirt, which made me laugh. Obviously the message is funny — albeit one-sided and I’m not in favor of arming gas pumps — but I [continue reading]
As many readers already know, a proposed deal for Metro to spend $300 million to purchase 100 new rail cars from the manufacturer AnsaldoBreda collapsed over the weekend when the company asked again for changes to a contract with the agency. The Los Angeles Times’ editorial page weighed in on [continue reading]
Here’s today’s version of the Metro Library’s transportation headlines. The Metro Library is kind of like the E Street Band, by the way: they just keeping cranking it out, day after day after day. In an opinion piece in the Pasadena Star-News, State Sen. Bob Huff is pleased that the [continue reading]
Here are today’s transportation headlines, courtesy of the ever-helpful Metro Library. I think the big story this week is the federal government’s sudden interest in banning texting while driving. A good piece by Wired explains what the feds can and can’t do — basically the best hope is to bribe [continue reading]
The Census Bureau this week released results from its latest community surveys taken from 2006 to 2008. The survey includes a wealth of data about people’s commutes in Los Angeles County. Here, for example, is a spreadsheet from the Census Bureau showing the average one-way commute times for people living [continue reading]
