Metro Bus service will be detoured Tuesday, April 27, in downtown Los Angeles due to the memorial service for former Los Angeles Police Department Chief Darryl Gates to be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. A procession will begin at 8:35 a.m. at the Police Administration [continue reading]
UPDATE: 12:06 p.m. – Blue Line Transit Mall and Pacific stations in Long Beach cleared for service. Blue Line resumes normal operations. 11:30 a.m. – Blue Line Transit Mall and Pacific stations in the Long Beach area are closed to all traffic at 11:15 a.m. while Long Beach police investigate suspicious activity. Southbound [continue reading]
SATURDAY, APRIL 24 UPDATE Good news – The street closure of Church Lane has been canceled this weekend. ________________________________________________________ The latest fun that is part of Sepulveda Pass widening project on the 405 freeway: the intersection of Church Lane and Sepulveda Boulevard is being shut down the two next weekends [continue reading]
Fiesta Broadway, the nation’s largest Cinco de Mayo event, is returning to Downtown L.A. for its 21st year – and with the celebration comes bus detours as many streets Downtown will be closed off for the massive event. Detours will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and continue through 6:00 [continue reading]
Metro has launched another blog to satiate your hunger for transportation related reading. Primary Resources is what the Metro Library is calling their newest online venture – a blog that taps into the library’s vast collection of resources to provide images, videos and documents along with insightful commentary from Metro’s [continue reading]
UPDATE: 5 p.m. Metro Bus Lines 200 and 550 will be detoured to nearby thruways. Also, Metro Bus Line 910, the Silver Line, will use the 37th St. station. Signs are being posted at bus stops. Some Metro bus lines will be detoured due to anticipated street closures in the [continue reading]
Metro debuted its redesigned web page in February with a fresh new aesthetic and a completely reengineered back-end. That back-end stuff is important because it changed Metro’s website from a rather bloated collection of thousands of static HTML pages that were difficult to update and manage to a modern Content [continue reading]
Last month students from the Braille Institute’s Los Angeles Center spent the morning with Metro for a special event called “Getting Around Town with Metro” as part of Braille’s Solutions in Sight public education campaign. A group of thirty visually impaired students had the chance to ride the Metro Red [continue reading]
Metro Bus service will be detoured tomorrow, Tuesday, April 13, in downtown Los Angeles due to the funeral service of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and Marine Sergeant Major Robert Cottle, to be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. LAPD SWAT officer Cottle was killed while [continue reading]
A safety upgrade to the Gold Line Eastside Extension was completed last week when the final segment of fencing was installed along the tracks. The fencing, along the street-running portions of the line, is designed to discourage jaywalkers from crossing the tracks outside of designated crosswalks. There is similar fencing [continue reading]
