Our friends at BART in the Bay Area are looking at new rail car designs to replace some of their aging fleet. The above video shows three concepts designed by BMWDesignWorksUSA — check out Concept C. And here’s a web page on the BART website with more information about the [continue reading]
Savvy Metro riders know that their TAP cards are the key to great discounts around L.A. courtesy of Metro’s Destination Discounts program. We do our best to keep up with the latest deals in our weekly roundup of discounts, but it can be easy to forget what’s available when you’re [continue reading]
The perils of being an early-adopter: I was recently surprised to discover that my 3 year old TAP card had expired. And I’m not the only one. We received this tweet today: @blinkie Tried to load my TAP card with a day pass and the machine said it expired. @metrolosangeles [continue reading]
Observant readers will notice a few subtle changes around The Source today thanks to a little update courtesy of Metro’s web team. Here are a few of the things we added that we hope will improve the reading experience: Featured posts: the most obvious addition is the box at the [continue reading]
Our trusty 405 closure countdown clock tells me that it’s 9 days until Carmageddon… yikes! While officials are recommending staying off the roads the weekend of July 16th, those who [continue reading]
Back in March we told you about Metro’s Developer Challenge – an invitation to developers to create apps using Metro’s open transit data for a chance to win some big cash prizes. Well, a few months have passed, the clever developers have worked their magic and Metro’s judges have chosen [continue reading]
The iconic Go Metro map featuring Metro’s rail and bus rapid transit lines just got an interactive upgrade. Point your browser to http://www.metro.net/interactives/go_metro/ to check it out (note: it’s a Flash map so it won’t work on iDevices). So what makes this interactive map so interactive? Clicking on stations reveals [continue reading]
In this video I go over how to add a TAP card bought from a ticket vending machine (TVM) to taptogo.net. This is one of the most common questions we get about TAP, and admittedly it’s not as obvious as it should be – but it is really easy. This [continue reading]
Note to readers: Due to some ongoing tech issues, we lost a couple of posts originally published on The Source this afternoon. We also lost the accompanying comments, which I haven’t been able to recover — my apologies. We did have a backup of the post, however. We recently invited [continue reading]
Included in last week’s official Nextrip launch was an informational video that included a sneak peak at some eye catching new bus stop signage This new signage – the first part of a larger initiative to update all bus stop signs – brings Nextrip information to each and every bus [continue reading]
