Last month, more than 160 members of Congress said they would support getting rid of federal New Starts funding to save money. New Starts is a program that provides metro areas help to build large transit projects that otherwise would be difficult, if impossible, to pay for themselves. The program, [continue reading]
Learning to drive a car is an almost universal right of passage for most Americans, and Angelenos are especially adept at understanding the unwritten rules of being a driver. The act of being a pedestrian, on the other hand, can be foreign and scary – and something that many Angelenos [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Victims of deadly 2008 Metrolink crash in Chatsworth to meet train execs (Daily News) A $200 million settlement fund for the victims [continue reading]
Those of us in the San Fernando Valley know the ease of hopping a bus to laid-back Bob Hope Airport and eliminating the parking expense from our total travel bill. (At $9 a day for even cheaper long-term, that car stay can add up faster than a Southwest ticket to Vegas.) Now [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Santa Clara County transit to provide free rides for qualified homeless (Mercury News) The Valley Transportation Authority in Santa Clara County approved [continue reading]
This week the San Marino Patch featured a story from local mom Lisa Montano who decided to buck the parental trend of playing permanent taxi driver and instead let Metro do the driving. Metro Line 79 serves San Marino along Huntington Drive and Montano takes advantage of the route to [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. A bus-only brouhaha (L.A. Times) A good editorial from the L.A. Times that sheds some light on the tough political battles public [continue reading]
Check out this great video from McGraw-Hill Construction on tunneling for the 2nd Avenue Subway project on the eastside of Manhattan. The tunnel boring machines are kind of big, eh? Soil conditions are very different in New York than in Los Angeles, but the video gives a good basic idea [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Wheels are rolling for a second ciclavia (blogdowntown) CicLAvia is coming back to Los Angeles on April 10 and its 7.5-mile path [continue reading]
The rail yard for the Metro Red/Purple Line subway has become the first major rail maintenance facility in the nation to earn an international recognition for its environmental management system (EMS). EMS means that Metro runs the rail yard in a way that conforms to a set of world class [continue reading]
