Metro CEO Art Leahy testified before a subcommittee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning in Washington and urged support for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 30/10 initiative. The mayor’s plan proposes to build a dozen mass transit projects — all of which receive funding from the Measure R [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. Twitter Tuesday is back after [continue reading]
As we mentioned last week, yesterday was the official groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of the MacArthur Park Metro Apartments. Here are a few clarifications and new tidbits on the project: Phase 1 is actually being built one block east of the Westlake/MacArthur Park Red/Purple Line Station – between [continue reading]
Click here to see the latest power point presentation. The presentation provides a good overview of the planning process for the subway and some of the latest ridership projections and info about potential station locations. Here’s our post from yesterday that includes a pair of charts on ridership. Hint: Westwood [continue reading]
With opening day attracting its usual monster crowds, lines were long this morning and early afternoon for the Dodger Express bus service between Union Station and Dodger Stadium. Metro officials estimate about 1,400 people took the bus to the game. If you haven’t heard the news yet, here’s the gist [continue reading]
Here’s an interesting little factoid: Did you you know the El Monte bus station is the busiest bus station west of Chicago? As part of the ExpressLanes project that will convert the carpool lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways into toll lanes, the El Monte bus station [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. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. Can we cycle the “last mile”? (Human Transit) Bikes on transit is [continue reading]
Last month students from the Braille Institute’s Los Angeles Center spent the morning with Metro for a special event called “Getting Around Town with Metro” as part of Braille’s Solutions in Sight public education campaign. A group of thirty visually impaired students had the chance to ride the Metro Red [continue reading]
Metro Bus service will be detoured tomorrow, Tuesday, April 13, in downtown Los Angeles due to the funeral service of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and Marine Sergeant Major Robert Cottle, to be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. LAPD SWAT officer Cottle was killed while [continue reading]
Beginning Tuesday, April 13, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project contractor plans to conduct underground utility work at the intersection of Church Lane and Sepulveda Boulevard for approximately one week. This activity will require the temporary reconfiguration of traffic into one lane in each direction. Here’s the construction notice info: [continue reading]
