Crenshaw/LAX Line from airplane, auto emissions vs EPA, Tesla: HWR, March 30
Dept. of I’m Back in L.A. after 45 day exile to Ohio!: If you have a window seat on any inbound flight to LAX you can get a view of [continue reading]
New Dodger Stadium Express video, housing and more housing: HWR, March 27
Editor’s note: I’m T-minus 48 hours from ending my current exile (parents versus old age) to Southwestern Ohio and some of the most sprawliest sprawl and worst Mexican food you’ll [continue reading]
Single family homes and the quest to build housing near transit: HWR, March 25
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]
Uber suspends self-driving car tests, Arts District rail, Cynthia Nixon: HWR, March 20
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]
Bridge collapse, street racing, World Cup in L.A.?: HWR, March 16
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]
Black holes, 213 vs 513 traffic, bike share, for whom the toll may toll: HWR, March 14
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]
Service alerts du jour, things to read whilst transiting, new trailhead shuttle: HWR, March 13
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]
Of Century City, the Boring Co. and Taylor Swift: How We Roll, March 12
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]
Two months a bus rider, dogs on transit, things to read: HWR, March 8
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]
Ridership, bridge building, streetcars: HWR, March 7
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]