Metro Mentions is a new feature on The Source where we highlight advertisements we’ve stumbled upon that feature Metro access information. Why? In this car-culture town, when local businesses and community organizations voluntarily go out of their way to include transit information in their ads it raises awareness and informs [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy had a short item in his daily brief on Tuesday concerning a resolution under consideration by the L.A. City Council on the proposed tunnel to close the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena: LA City Council IT&GA Committee Approves Resolution Opposing SR-710 Extension [continue reading]
The Metrolink Board of Directors last month delayed making a decision on a controversial six percent fare increase and instead chose to look at other options to close the commuter rail line’s budget gap. One of those options: service cuts, according to a report to the board available on the [continue reading]
View Larger Map An alert Metro customer recently wrote the agency with a salient question: why don’t the new Eastside Gold Line stations appear on Google Transit, the popular trip planner? If you want to see an example of what the customer means, look close at the above map. The [continue reading]
At a meeting of Metro officials last week, an interesting discussion broke out about a customer survey the agency did earlier this year. Was it really true that just 68% of passengers on Metro buses and trains had a working cell phone with them? And just 37% overall had smart [continue reading]
UPDATE as of 12/8/09: Due to weather, Metro’s Bike study on the Orange Line has been postponed. It is currently being rescheduled. Details will be forthcoming on this blog… Metro is looking for volunteers to help study the sustainability benefits of the Metro Orange Line and its integrated bikeway. [continue reading]
Yes, my headline is misleading. You can’t take a Metro bus or train to Arizona, but you can take one to Union Station. And from Union Station you can take an Amtrak train to Arizona. Heck, you could go all the way to Chicago if you so desired. In fact, [continue reading]
Metro has announced significant service changes involving a dozen different routes — including some new routes and some that are being truncated or eliminated. The changes go into effect Sunday, Dec. 13. The full list is after the jump. There are also minor adjustments being made to several dozen other [continue reading]
First thing that caught my eye today is this post from Streetsblog LA that features a video that’s been making the rounds in transit circles. It shows the growth of rail transit in the last 30 years for six cities – Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Portland, Seattle and Los Angeles. L.A. [continue reading]
In June of this year Metro officially released transit route and schedule data to the public via the Metro developer site (http://developer.metro.net). The announcement brought about some excited chatter on local blogs, mostly in anticipation for Google Transit, but after the Google launch in July it seemed like the Metro [continue reading]
