Things to read whilst transiting: Ever want to walk across Antarctica? Read this awesome New Yorker article first. Art of Transit: Name that station! Photo 📸 @johnfrancisconway #LoveMetroLA #GoMetro A post shared by Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Feb 13, 2018 at 9:11am PST Building a stronger America (Whitehouse.gov) First, the release [continue reading]
Transportation wonks typically agree that charging people for using the roads is the best way to reduce traffic. What if we paid people for not using the roads? It’s no [continue reading]
pdf here The public hearing for all-door boarding on the 754 Rapid and 720 Rapid will be this Thursday at 9 a.m. during the Metro Board’s System Safety, Security and [continue reading]
Things to read whilst transiting: “Welcome to the post-text future” in the NYT. Excerpt: Still, we have only just begun to glimpse the deeper, more kinetic possibilities of an online [continue reading]
Metro’s Board of Directors approved a new contract to increase the police’s presence on Metro in 2017. Since then, the Los Angeles and Long Beach police departments have joined the Los Angeles [continue reading]
Into the second week of the closure of five Green Line stations, crewmembers building the rail connection between the Crenshaw/LAX Line and Green Line are making good progress. Existing Green [continue reading]
A new bus circulator with more stops and that travels in both directions will replace current Orange Line service in the Warner Center area later this year. The plan was unanimously approved by the San Fernando Valley Service Council at Wednesday night’s meeting — with support from the Valley Industry [continue reading]
Art of Transit: L.A. faces skyrocketing costs for lawsuits over bike crashes (LAT) I thought this was an outstanding piece of local journalism. The issue: bad pavement causing severe bicycle crashes in a city trying to become more bike-friendly. The $19.1 million paid in legal settlements in 2017 is four [continue reading]
Due to renovation work, the Metro cafeteria at One Gateway Plaza will be closed from Monday, Feb. 12 through Friday, Feb. 16. During this time, visitors to Metro HQ may purchase meals at the food trucks parked outside Gateway plaza. Food trucks will be available between 6 a.m. to 10:30 [continue reading]
Learn about work performed throughout the Metro system to keep it in a state of good repair in the Maintenance Diaries. In this installment, we took a trip to the Red [continue reading]
