Don’t hit the streets looking for regular bus and train service tomorrow, Nov. 26 — Metro is running on a holiday schedule all day Thursday. Regular weekday service resumes on Friday. Here’s a link to the timetables page on the Metro website — holiday hours are marked on the schedules.
Long holiday weekends can be boring … although not usually. But if you’re looking for something to do this weekend, Metro has a discount agreement with MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art). It’s a two-for-one admission deal to all three of MOCA’s locations. MOCA Grand Avenue is just two blocks [continue reading]
Outdoor ice skating in Los Angeles? Without a car? Just because it’s 78° outside and Los Angeles is the car capital of the world doesn’t mean you can’t find yourself skating on a sheet of ice in an outdoor skating rink that you got to by train. In L.A. anything [continue reading]
I’m sure the folks at the Metro Library have Thanksgiving plans that need attention. But you wouldn’t know it — not the way they’re scouring the world wide web to bring you and me the latest, greatest transportation headlines. The first story that caught my eye was at the top [continue reading]
This week in 1955, Metropolitan Coach Lines put its Snow White bus into service between downtown Los Angeles and Disneyland. As it pulled onto Main Street in front of Disneyland City Hall, it was greeted by Walt Disney, the Mouseketeers and a 16-piece band. Disney Studio artists had transformed the bus exterior [continue reading]
The Westside Extension crew recently held a series of public meetings to discuss potential locations for subway stations; the above map shows a possible location for a station at Fairfax. The 84-page presentation — with loads of maps and renderings — is now online and available for download as a [continue reading]
A kickoff event for the Gold Line Foothill Extension was held in Monrovia on Saturday. The press release is posted after the jump. One item I want to clarify: Although the Foothill Extension Construction Authority — an agency independent of Metro — is aiming for a 2013 completion date, there [continue reading]
The Folks at LA SAFE – the Los Angeles County Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies – have been working on Southern California’s own 511 traveler information service. Today, they’re offering a debut of a beta version of the new phone number and website to get public feedback before officially launching [continue reading]
The first item that caught my eye on today’s transportation headlines was a post by Dakota Smith at Curbed LA on Friday afternoon on Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz’ ongoing study of a personal rapid transit (PRT) system to span the Sepulveda Pass. Koretz, who represents parts of the [continue reading]
Service delays on the Metro Blue Line continued this morning following construction work over the weekend by the Expo Construction Authority. Earlier this morning test trains traveling the segment from the Washington Station to the Pico Station encountered some problems. As a result, a bus bridge remains in place to [continue reading]
