Last month students from the Braille Institute’s Los Angeles Center spent the morning with Metro for a special event called “Getting Around Town with Metro” as part of Braille’s Solutions in Sight public education campaign. A group of thirty visually impaired students had the chance to ride the Metro Red [continue reading]
Last December, Metro launched its official Facebook page in an attempt to better communicate with customers and taxpayers using the ubiquitous social networking tool. By the end of 2009 Metro had a few hundred fans on Facebook. This past weekend Metro’s Facebook page topped 2,000 fans and the number keeps [continue reading]
Love it or hate it – and according to Metro surveys, most customers prefer it – Transit TV is back, under new ownership and ready to give bus riders something entertaining and informative to occupy their time. Transit TV is now owned and operated by TEZO Systems, a locally based [continue reading]
Cars and streetcars peacefully sharing limited street space in downtown L.A. in December, 1930. Of course, road rage as an accepted behavior had not yet reached maturity. (Like the people who succumb?) Photo taken looking north at Broadway and Third Street. Remove the vehicles and the street looks surprisingly similar [continue reading]
Good news for Metro bus riders: earlier this month Metro took the first step in bringing real time arrival information to bus riders when the agency invited vendors to submit proposals for a Real Time Bus Arrival Information System (BAIS). Metro is looking for a vendor who can provide an [continue reading]
College students are always on the look out for a good deal and full-time students at Pasadena City College are no exception. So far, over 800 of them have picked up heavily discounted I-Pass stamps that allow students to ride Metro for just $30 for the entire semester. A typical [continue reading]
Metro Motion is Metro’s quarterly television show that airs on cable channels around L.A. But some of us Millennials view cable television the same way we view CD players – outdated technology that’s best left alone. Luckily Metro realizes this and has put Metro Motion on one of my favorite [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy has been on the job for almost a year and yesterday he announced to agency staff his most significant initiative: he wants to “streamline” the agency, which involves eliminating some open jobs and through voluntary and involuntary layoffs. This is how it has been explained to [continue reading]
Thousands of visual reminders of history are stored on the Metro Library Flickr site. Tucked among the historic photos is a shot of a few weekly passes from the 1930s, showing that many Los Angeles Railway tickets were small works of art. Some simply reminded riders not to forget Mother’s Day. [continue reading]
Okay, we know from the photo ID that this bus is coming in from a turnout at Vermont, heading west/north on a Hollywood Freeway shockingly free of cars and structures. What we don’t know is when. Anyone have a guess? (The cars should be a clue.) The only thing that [continue reading]
