Joel Epstein at the Huffington Post says that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to build 30 years of Measure R projects in the next 10 years is a fine idea — but a number of funding reforms will be needed to make it happen. I, too, think it’s a [continue reading]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $1.5 billion in so-called “tiger” grants to 51 transportation projects around the country today. One local project scored big — the Colton Crossing plan in San Bernardino was awarded $33.8 million. What is Colton Crossing? You’ve probably driven past it and not realized it. [continue reading]
And the top five rude behaviors on Metro buses and trains are….well, if you want to know read the Plus Metro blog post. Spoiler alert: one of them involves people who insist on barging onto the train or bus before letting passengers exit. This is one of my pet peeves [continue reading]
Metro gets some rare screen time in the latest episode of CBS’ series “The Amazing Race.” The contestants are given the challenge of getting to LAX from downtown L.A. using public transportation. Union Station, 7th Street Metro Center, the Blue Line and the FlyAway all get starring roles. If you [continue reading]
Remember earlier this year when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did the unthinkable and closed down parts of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square and converted them into pedestrian plazas? He made the changes permanent on Thursday, reports the New York Times. Broadway cuts diagonally across the city [continue reading]
Curbed LA reports that the Expo Line Construction Authority is working with the Los Angeles Police Department to restore its right to work around-the-clock, when necessary. The LAPD revoked Expo’s night-time work permit recently amid noise complaints. The downtown streetcar project championed by Los Angeles Councilman Jose Huizar, who is [continue reading]
If you have endured some scary drives in the mountains of the American West, then check out a post at Waze on the 19 most complex and dangerous roads in the world. There’s even a local entry — the 110/105 interchange made the list. But the photo that caught my [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source where we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. It was a bit of [continue reading]
A somewhat belated headlines roundup this morning. Thank you for your patience…. Researchers for years have been trying to link suburban sprawl to obesity–the idea being that the more car dependent a community, the less chance that people will walk and exercise there. Curbed LA posts about a new study [continue reading]
The L.A. Times’ Steve Lopez drives a deputy mayor’s Hummer to work — the deputy mayor takes the subway and beats Lopez in a race to City Hall. The race isn’t the highlight of the column. Rather it’s Lopez once again calling for more programs that would discourage people from [continue reading]
