Metro will hold 10 community meetings beginning in January to ask for the public’s help in the agency’s NextGen Bus Study, the effort to redesign and reimagine the agency’s bus system to meet the needs of today’s riders. Here is a Source post from earlier this fall about the study. [continue reading]
Elon Musk and The Boring Co. held their long-awaited event last night in Hawthorne to show the public their 1.14-mile test tunnel. Key graphs from the LAT: The company previously said its planned urban transportation network, called the Loop, would whisk cars and pods through multiple levels of tunnels on [continue reading]
The Blue Line will undergo a comprehensive $350-million modernization beginning Jan. 26 to improve reliability, enhance safety and improve the customer experience. From Jan. 26 to late May, Blue Line [continue reading]
Warming up… View this post on Instagram TOS, Transit Oriented 🌅 A post shared by LA Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Dec 10, 2018 at 5:00pm PST Metro is excited to announce FAStops, a bus stop balancing project aimed to speed up your ride: https://t.co/lARilKP0Y5 pic.twitter.com/pMxMVdr2ZZ — Cincinnati Metro (@cincinnatimetro) December [continue reading]
Our last update on this topic was about six months ago, and thus it’s time for an update: •Purple Line from Union Station to Wilshire/Western – Cell service is now [continue reading]
pdf here The final Board meeting of the year was a very long one, clocking in at six-plus hours and involving a wide variety of issues. Among the actions taken today: •The Board approved a plan to designate Metro’s rail and bus rapid transit lines with colors and letters in [continue reading]
Metro announced on Thursday that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Aerial Rapid Transit Technologies LLC (ARTT), an action that formally begins the negotiations necessary to make a [continue reading]
UPDATE: All six closed stations will reopen at the start of service on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 20. *** As construction continues on the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, additional work [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors’ final meeting for 2018 is Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at Metro HQ adjacent to Union Station. As always, the meeting is open to the public and will also be livestreamed. The agenda with links to staff reports and presentations is above. Among the [continue reading]
pdf here Metro purchased Union Station in 2011 and since has been implementing or studying a variety of improvements to increase the facility’s capacity in terms of both trains and [continue reading]
