In a video getting interest on You Tube, Metro’s CEO Art Leahy said the transportation agency with the “largest clean air fleet in the nation” will make a clean and completely green start in the new year when the last remaining 14 diesel buses in the fleet of more than [continue reading]
Here’s some awesome news for anyone who wants to include bikeways in new or existing transportation, trip planning and geographic analysis tools in L.A. County. Metro has officially released all of its bikeway data gathered from 88 cities at http://developer.metro.net. The data, following on the agency’s previous release of its [continue reading]
Tomorrow morning, car-sharing service Zipcar is deploying its fleet into the heart of Hollywood. The new service, called Zipcar on the Street, brings another valuable addition to the urban transportation toolkit, helping travelers make that tricky last-mile connection to their destination or providing car-free Angelenos with easy access to short-term [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. The best and worst commutes (Bundle) Yet another list of who has the most joyful and most awful driving commutes around the [continue reading]
Red Line trains are resuming normal operations with minor residual delays until 5:45 p.m. What was happening: Red Line experiencing delays this afternoon between 3 p.m. and 4:50 p.m. Red Line subway trains were single tracking between Universal City and the Hollywood/Western station due to an incident involving an eastbound train [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. The first nationwide count of parking spaces demonstrates their high environmental cost (Inside Science) Engineers at the University of California Berkeley had [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. Feds insist that first leg of bullet train reach Bakersfield (Bakersfield.com) The first leg of California high speed rail may now go [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. California gets $616 million more in fed funding for bullet train (Sacramento Bee) Politicians in Ohio and Wisconsin said “no thanks” to [continue reading]
The final environmental impact report for rush hour bus lanes on parts of Wilshire Boulevard was initially approved by the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday, with a roughly one-mile stretch in the Condo Canyon area of Westwood removed from the project. Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas abstained from the vote. [continue reading]
The final Board meeting of 2010 just started a few minutes ago. Among the items on the agenda is consideration of the final environmental impact report for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project — i.e. the rush hour bus lanes. Part of that conversation will involve the Board deciding whether [continue reading]
