Our current bus-only lanes don’t perform at an optimal level (and don’t inspire public confidence as a rapid public transit tool) since they are sometimes clogged with people illegally parking or driving in them. The Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lanes are often blocked by cars using them to illegally park, Uber [continue reading]
This article was co-written by Rye Baerg and Margaret de Larios Whether you are a city trying to automate a parking ticket payment system or an individual struggling to learn [continue reading]
One of the agency’s most intriguing projects — Metro MicroTransit — takes a nice step forward today when at 2 p.m. Pacific time, Metro releases its Request for Proposals (RFP) for the pilot program on our Vendor Portal. MicroTransit is basically a small vehicle that you can order (like you would [continue reading]
Transit is a critical piece of overall mobility in any urban environment. But, it is still just that – a piece of a much larger transportation picture. Across L.A. County, about six to seven percent of commuters use transit to reach work. This means that there many opportunities to capture [continue reading]
Denver’s unmanned aerial vehicle program has launched. What does this mean for the industry? In July 2016, Metro received an Unsolicited Proposal to use unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for a variety of tasks. While this proposal may hold exciting prospects for LA Metro as our vast rail network grows and [continue reading]
Some of you have already noticed this: underground cell phone service for T-Mobile customers is now up and running on the Metro Red and Purple Lines between Union Station and [continue reading]
Update: Please pardon our mess. The “Maps + Schedules” tab seems to have taken a day off. We’re making surgical updates to get the data working again. Thank you so [continue reading]
[twentytwenty] [/twentytwenty] UPDATE: Whoa Nelly! Thank you beta testers for crashing the new Trip Planner:) Since launching the beta website, traffic has increased more than 5,000 percent causing momentary disruption in [continue reading]
It took a while but it’s now possible to plan transit trips on the Apple Maps feature on iPhones. The feature went live earlier this week after Metro provided Apple [continue reading]
Have you noticed Metro’s realtime transit updates on Google Maps? Google soft-launched the new feature last week. If you’re using Google Maps on your smartphone, here’s how it works. After [continue reading]
