A new bus circulator with more stops and that travels in both directions will replace current Orange Line service in the Warner Center area later this year. The plan was unanimously approved by the San Fernando Valley Service Council at Wednesday night’s meeting — with support from the Valley Industry [continue reading]
Learn about work performed throughout the Metro system to keep it in a state of good repair in the Maintenance Diaries. In this installment, we took a trip to the Red [continue reading]
Come join us this month and fall in endless love with Metro’s regional projects and programs! All Service Councils will meet in February and will receive the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 Station Inspection Report and the Regional Performance Report for their respective regions. The San Fernando Valley and [continue reading]
Over the last three months, the U.S. transportation P3 pipeline has gained momentum and illustrated its diversity. From parking lots to highway lighting, OEI’s newest member Yousef Salama analyzes notable transportation related P3 opportunities in the market. These opportunities were first reported by Inframationgroup.com, which provides a subscription news service [continue reading]
What we learned from our interviews with three transit agencies who piloted MicroTransit…and what we didn’t. As Metro began designing and developing the MicroTransit Pilot Project (MTP), we did so knowing that publicly operated on-demand transit is a relatively new service model and the literature is limited. To help inform [continue reading]
Metro and Caltrans District 7 are looking to make improvements along the I-605 between I-10 and I-105, and related improvements along the SR-60 and the I-5. Technical studies for the [continue reading]
Apollonia’s Pizzeria is located along Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension and is owned and operated by husband and wife Justin and Linda De Leon. With 25 years of [continue reading]
To maintain the Metro Rail System, the agency has numerous buildings that its riders never enter but are crucial to moving them across the county. One of these structures is [continue reading]
The first segment of the Red Line subway opened Jan. 29, 1993 — 25 years ago today. Metro held a media event at Union Station this morning to celebrate and [continue reading]
Planning work continues on the Link Union Station project that would add a new southern entrance/exit to Union Station for Metrolink and Amtrak trains and build a new expanded passenger concourse. The concourse would replace the current tunnel under the Metrolink, Amtrak and Gold Line tracks. The tunnel can get very [continue reading]
