Make sure to follow @metroLAalerts to get real-time information on service changes, improvements and delays. Live customer assistance is also provided on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. You can also find [continue reading]
Plan to dramatically increase development would transform some L.A. neighborhoods (LAT) The LAT does some fine reporting on SB 827, the bill that seeks to allow much more housing to [continue reading]
Metro’s Board of Directors approved a new contract to increase the police’s presence on Metro in 2017. Since then, the Los Angeles and Long Beach police departments have joined the Los Angeles [continue reading]
Self-driving Uber vehicle strikes, kills 49-year-old woman in Tempe (Arizona.com) Self-driving Uber kills pedestrian in Arizona, where robots roam (NYT) Exclusive: Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber (S.F. Chronicle) The Arizona Republic reports the car was going about 40 mph, apparently didn’t slow down and [continue reading]
It’s National Transit Driver Appreciation Day. To put it mildly, the folks that drive our buses and trains have challenging jobs and the professionalism these folks bring day after day, year after year is certainly appreciated in these parts with or without a special day on the calendar! Art of [continue reading]
Things to read whilst transiting: the NYT’s excellent obituary for Stephen Hawking. Art of Transit: A tale of two cities traffic-wise this morning at 12:50 EDT, 9:50 PDT. Even with the traffic, I’d rather be in the top than near the bottom today. Hoping my exile to the Queen City [continue reading]
Dept. of Service Alerts: There will very likely be some today. For the latest, we encourage you to follow Metro’s main Twitter feed or our service alerts feed. Things to read whilst transiting: “Reddit and the struggle to detoxify the Internet” in the New Yorker. You can also listen to [continue reading]
Dept. of Taylor Swift: 7th and Metro Center makes a cameo in her new video. Dept. of Elon Musk: Yeah, he gets his own department on the Source. This thread [continue reading]
Things to read whilst transiting: Overlooked, a New York Times project to add obituaries for remarkable women who the paper overlooked when they died. Things to read 2: NYT tech columnist Farhad Manjoo got all his news from print newspapers for two months and turned off news alerts. How’d it [continue reading]
Art of Transport: How they build bridges in China. Just awesome pic.twitter.com/WFD6xlxX9d — The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) March 5, 2018 Art of Transit: Real time arrival predictions pic.twitter.com/qnGSPDdqBy — Scott [continue reading]
