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Barcelona partially opens new subway

by Steve Hymon , December 21, 2009

A new subway line running under Barcelona — and connecting to the city’s airport — opened its first five stations earlier this month. With the subway extension being planned on the Westside, I thought you may enjoy playing around with the three links below to powerpoint presentations about the new [continue reading]

Transportation headlines, Monday, Dec. 21

by Steve Hymon , December 21, 2009

Let’s start the holiday week in Sin City — where else? — with a fun story by Metropolis Magazine taking a critical look at the monorail that is supposed to serve the Las Vegas Strip but is mostly out-of-view and slow. The author’s conclusion: if you’re trying to get around [continue reading]

Go Metro Weekends, Dec. 18th – Dec. 20th

by Fred Camino , December 18, 2009

Go Metro Weekends is The Source’s weekly guide to having a great weekend in L.A. without a car. All events are easily accessible (within a half mile walk) by Metro bus and rail lines. Have an event you’d like us to include? Shoot us an email at thesource@metro.net. Time and [continue reading]

Expo Line releases final environmental report for Phase 2 from Culver City to Santa Monica

by Steve Hymon , December 18, 2009

The final environmental document for Phase 2 of the Expo Line light rail project from Culver City to Santa Monica was released today with several key changes. The entire final environmental impact report is on the Expo Line Construction Authority website and a press release from the Authority is after [continue reading]

Transportation headlines, Friday, Dec. 18

by Fred Camino , December 18, 2009

EGPNews.com takes a closer look at Eastside Gold Line safety and the Metro Board’s decision to speed up the process of installing safety gates along the new line. Many residents along the line showed up to last week’s meeting of the Metro Board to ask that a lengthy environmental impact [continue reading]

Metro ridership a mixed bag in November; more ridership data now online

by Steve Hymon , December 18, 2009

Metro has released ridership numbers for November and there’s relatively little news to report. Rail ridership across the system increased slightly from Nov. 2008 — due to the opening of the Eastside Gold Line Extension — and bus ridership dipped from one year earlier. Metro officials believe the weak economy [continue reading]

Video: First day of service on the Metro Silver Line

by Fred Camino , December 17, 2009

The Source has yet to ride the new Silver Line (don’t worry, we will soon) but Metro Community Relations was there on opening day and took this video. Check out the sleek buses (NABI 45C-LFW, for you transit geeks), thoughts from passengers, and footage of the bus blasting past traffic [continue reading]

Bad news for transit in the Big Apple

by Steve Hymon , December 17, 2009

Remember all those stories about soaring mass transit use in the summer of 2008, when gas prices soared? Well, here are the first two paragraphs of a story published by the New York Times: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a punishing slate of service cuts on Wednesday that would amount [continue reading]

Metro, elected officials ask feds for subway and connector dollars

by Steve Hymon , December 17, 2009

As I posted last month, the funding game for the Westside Subway Extension and the Downtown Regional Connector projects was shifting from Los Angeles County to Washington D.C. Now it’s official. Earlier this month, Metro CEO Art Leahy submitted a formal request for $77.6 million to the federal government, with [continue reading]

Transportation headlines, Thursday, Dec. 17

by Steve Hymon , December 17, 2009

Warm-up your eyeballs. A lot of really good transpo stories out there today. The L.A. Times’ Rich Connell reports that Metrolink and other commuter railroads sought and were granted a federal waiver more than a decade ago to bypass a rule requiring them to post speed limit signs in certain [continue reading]

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