There will be an open house on Wednesday, July 14, for the Westside Subway Extension from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Brown Auditorium (5905 Wilshire Blvd.). The lunchtime session will provide information on the status of planning for the subway extension with [continue reading]
A few weeks ago, I told readers to feel free to contact their elected representatives to urge support for the 30/10 Initiative. Intelligent Source readers — and I realize that phrase is redundant — know that the 30/10 plan proposes to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the [continue reading]
This fish eye high dynamic range (HDR) photograph taken by Michael Chen effectively captures the perspective of a passenger in an old Los Angeles streetcar. The HDR brings out all the details of the “Yellow Car”, part of the Los Angeles Railway (LARy) streetcar system that ran from 1901 to [continue reading]
Attentive readers know that the Westside Subway Extension is scheduled to reach an important milestone later this summer: the release of the project’s draft environmental impact statement/report, otherwise known as a DEIR. The lengthy document looks at the reasons the line should or shouldn’t be built, its impacts on the [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Something more important than free tickets (LAObserved) Longtime political reporter and editor Bill Boyarsky opines that he doesn’t see what the big hoo-ha is over [continue reading]
We’re posting some b-roll here in case you missed the parade of flatbeds down Washington Boulevard and the afterglow of work crews dangling an 83-ton transformer from a crane early this morning. The installation of the first of 20 traction power substations — whose job it is to power the [continue reading]
Metro officials say that they will release a full report to the agency’s Board of Directors’ Operations Committee next Thursday about the accident on Wednesday in which a Metro Blue Line train struck a Long Beach police vehicle. A Long Beach police officer who was driving the vehicle suffered moderate [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Hollywood and Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? (Huffington Post) Earlier this week in an “art of transit” post I expressed desire for [continue reading]
One of the challenges of building a bullet train in California is that it would be the first of its kind in the United States and all the expertise on how to design, build and operate the trains is currently overseas in Europe and Asia. After the jump is a [continue reading]
This photo has a little of everything: color, contrast and, of course, a cute boy looking away from the camera. It’s one of many striking photos by Takadanobaba Kurazawa on his Flickr photostream. As I’ve been writing on a nearly everyday basis, we’re trying to spruce up The Source with [continue reading]
