Transit is a critical piece of overall mobility in any urban environment. But, it is still just that – a piece of a much larger transportation picture. Across L.A. County, about six to seven percent of commuters use transit to reach work. This means that there many opportunities to capture [continue reading]
How a small project by a local non-profit stands for so much more A little over a year ago, Metro’s First and Last Mile Planning team sat with LA-Más to talk about [continue reading]
Embed from Getty Images How will autonomous vehicles impact Metro is a question oft-asked of our agency’s innovation office. By Joshua Schank / Chief Innovation Officer When you have a title like “Chief Innovation Officer in the Office of Extraordinary Innovation at LA Metro” people tend to ask you about [continue reading]
Denver’s unmanned aerial vehicle program has launched. What does this mean for the industry? In July 2016, Metro received an Unsolicited Proposal to use unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for a variety of tasks. While this proposal may hold exciting prospects for LA Metro as our vast rail network grows and [continue reading]
The Transit Tourist takes a look at other transit systems across the globe from the first person perspective of a visitor. What can Metro learn from how these other systems [continue reading]
The Transit Tourist takes a look at other transit systems across the globe from the first person perspective of a visitor. What can Metro learn from how these other systems treat the uninitiated – and often bumbling – tourist? I recently took a trip to Seattle via the Amtrak Coast [continue reading]
The Transit Tourist takes a look at other transit systems across the globe from the first person perspective of a visitor. What can Metro learn from how these other systems treat the uninitiated – and often bumbling – tourist? In previous installments of the Transit Tourist, The Source visited Chicago, Portland, [continue reading]
The 11.5-mile Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension is now 50 percent complete, according to the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the Pasadena-to-Azusa/Glendora border project. Below are an awesome collection of aerial photos taken in recent days by the Construction Authority. The news release — with a [continue reading]
It’s always awesome to see government display a sense of humor and not act like some faceless, droll blob of humanity behind a three-inch thick window. Nice job, New Jersey Transit! For those unfamiliar with New York, New Jersey Transit is providing commuter rail service between Manhattan and MetLife Stadium, [continue reading]
Came across this video of an experimental crosswalk traffic signal in Germany while surfing the web this weekend…it allows you to play a game of pong with someone on the other side of the street while waiting for the light to change. Now the real question is: can we have something like [continue reading]
