The December meeting of the Metro Board of Directors has begun and it’s a packed house here at One Gateway. Most of the crowd appears to be here for the vote on the Crenshaw line. The Board is set to vote today on the Metro staff recommendation on making Crenshaw [continue reading]
Did you know that Wilshire Boulevard is the only street in Los Angeles to have surface-level rail banned from operating on it (although not under it) between MacArthur Park and Beverly Hills? Early 20th Century elites who built their mansions near the boulevard may have been LA’s first “NIMFYs” (Not in My [continue reading]
I stumbled upon the video posted on the Metro Library YouTube channel thanks to a post from UCLA’s Be A Green Commuter blog. It’s a promo video Metro produced to aid in the recruitment of bus operators, so obviously it’s a bit one-sided. But I found it contained some pretty [continue reading]
In October we introduced you to the newest addition in a series of posters that spotlight Metro accessible destinations, commissioned by Metro Creative Services. The artist, Shizu Saldamando, was kind enough to agree to an email interview with me to discuss her poster, her art and its place in Los [continue reading]
At a meeting of Metro officials last week, an interesting discussion broke out about a customer survey the agency did earlier this year. Was it really true that just 68% of passengers on Metro buses and trains had a working cell phone with them? And just 37% overall had smart [continue reading]
It’s a bit of a slow day here, and this post comes from the Dept. of It’s a Holiday Week. Metro CEO Art Leahy emails a ‘daily briefing’ to staff with happenings from around the agency. One item from Monday’s briefing caught my eye: Laker Girls Help Us Celebrate Key [continue reading]
I recently took a tour of Metro’s Bus Operations Control Center, simply known as the BOC, and discovered a small collection of dedicated men and women who work 24/7 to keep Metro’s massive bus system running as smoothly as possible. Seriously, these guys are like the Spartans from the film [continue reading]
In 2002, Metro decentralized its bus operations — basically splitting Los Angeles County into five service sectors. The idea, in part, was to create closer ties to the communities served by the agency. It appears now that the agency is going to re-centralize some of those operations both as a [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy just announced that Carolyn Flowers, the agency’s chief operating officer, has resigned to accept a job as the CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System in North Carolina. Flowers, a longtime veteran of Metro, has held a variety of positions here over the years and climbed [continue reading]
We posted photos the other day of the new Indiana Station and the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station on the Gold Line Eastside Extension, which opens to the public on Sunday. Gary Leonard, staff photographer for the Downtown News, shot the stations for Metro. Now, we’re on to the Atlantic Station, [continue reading]
