Effective immediately, all Metro Red and Purple Line trains traveling from Union Station to North Hollywood and Union Station to Wilshire/Western will operate on a 25 mile-per-hour speed limit due to unforeseen equipment issues. Patrons using the Metro Purple Line to Wilshire/Western can expect delays of 10 to 12 minutes. [continue reading]
Next week a $1.65-million contract with NextBus, Inc. for a real-time bus arrival system goes in front of the Metro board for approval. If approved, Metro riders could be receiving real-time bus arrival information via text, cell phone, smartphone and web by early 2011. NextBus currently provides its real-time services [continue reading]
As many of you are keenly aware, the El Monte bus station moved to a temporary station this past week with a new station in the works. Obviously it’s not an ideal situation, but I did want to point you to an earlier post showing what the new El Monte [continue reading]
As of 12pm all Red Line trains have been issued a 25 mile per hour speed restriction from Union Station to North Hollywood and Wilshire Western due to equipment issues. Passengers should expect 10-20 minute delays until further notice.
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. El Monte bus station’s last days (SGV Tribune) Steve Scauzillo of the SGV Tribune writes retrospective on the El Monte bus station, [continue reading]
Metro recently completed a big document — hey, we’re government and we like big documents — called the congestion management plan. In short, it’s a state-mandated report that looks at current transportation conditions in L.A. County, the idea being to show that state funds are accomplishing something. I like to [continue reading]
photo by Mitja Kobal – Cwithe, via his Flickr photostream The photo is lovely even without knowing much about it — it was taken at a rail stop in Tokyo. The photographer in an email to me explained: street festivals are common throughout Japan in the summer and each district [continue reading]
For a complete list of planned service advisories please visit the Service Updates page on Metro.net. And for the latest service alerts follow @MetroLAalerts on Twitter. View Metro Daily Transit Forecast in a larger map Lines 20/720, 200 Lines 20/720 and 200 will be detoured due to the Central American [continue reading]
Now that the draft environmental impact statement/report has been released for the Westside Subway Extension, Metro staff are holding public hearings to discuss and explain the giant document. Just as important, the hearings are also a chance for the public to comment on the project. The first hearing is Monday [continue reading]
So far, with 157 votes as of 10am, our mobile device survey shows that, at least amongst our readers, there are just about as many Android users as there are iPhone users. Metro’s initial iPhone offering met with mixed-reviews but it looks like the numbers may reveal that an Android [continue reading]
