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Here’s the news release: Leave the Driving to Metro — To promote a safe holiday season, Metro will offer a special holiday free fare program for all Metro Bus and Metro Rail lines operating on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The free fare program will be in effect [continue reading]
Here’s a fun video from the Path Less Pedaled website on getting from the San Fernando Valley to Leo Carrillo State Beach using the Red Line, a bus and a bike ride up PCH.
Attention holiday shoppers! Unless you’re rising in the dead of night for Black Friday’s ridiculously early sales, it’s a pretty good bet you have a traffic jam or — worse yet — parking lot gridlock in your holiday future. This year avoid the aggravation and let Metro take you where [continue reading]
Trying to save time this holiday season? Here are a couple of suggestions for great pumpkin pie the easy way … via Metro. Sweet Lady Jane is a great place for pumpkin pie, coconut cake, whatever: 8360 Melrose Ave.; West Hollywood; (323) 653-7145. (Call ahead to check on pie availability.) [continue reading]
Given the region’s rich Vietnamese community it’s logicial that there are hundreds (or is it thousands?) of places that serve the rice noodle soup called pho. Not surprisingly, there are a number of good places near Metro in or close to downtown L.A. If you’re in search of cheap meals, Vietnamese pho (pronounced fah) [continue reading]
Editor’s note: This post first appeared on El Pasajero, Metro’s Spanish-language blog, and has been translated. Want a meal that’s a break from the ordinary but with great homemade flavor? Guisados Tacos in Boyle Heights, just steps from the Metro Local 68 stop at the corner of César Chavez Avenue [continue reading]
It’s Friday and a good time to abandon all thoughts of low-cal, low-fat, low-interest food. Why not start by stopping off for a snack on the way home from work with, possibly, something to chase it down? Are sweet potato fries still fashionable enough to eat? Do we care? Who [continue reading]
The California Science Center in Exposition Park this morning welcomed Space Shuttle Endeavor Commander Mark Kelly (husband of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) and three other mission astronauts at a private ceremony for Endeavor’s title transfer from NASA to the Science Center. Also on hand to celebrate were L.A. Mayor and [continue reading]
Below is the news release from Metro on how to get to Ciclavia. Please note that normal fares apply on Sunday. 12 Metro Rail Stations provide service on/near CicLAvia event route. Metro bus lines impacted by street closures. Go Metro and continue your car-free experience to and from CicLAvia in [continue reading]
Looking for an L.A. neighborhood where you can live without a car? The blog NoHoFoSho – which dubs itself “the Valley’s urban lifestyle blog” – wants to convince you that its namesake, North Hollywood, is L.A.’s premiere transit hood. We’ve always been big NoHo boosters here at The Source. The [continue reading]
