My colleague Fred Dennstedt and I are headed off later this morning for our first ride on the Eastside Gold Line Extension. Local media are getting a preview ride on Friday, but as proud Metro contractors we get to see it before them. Neener-neener! We’ll post our impressions later today. [continue reading]
The accompanying video was produced by Metro as part of the public outreach effort for the Westside Subway Extension environmental study currently underway. The study is looking at options for extending the subway west from its current terminus at Wilshire and Western and another option that would add a spur [continue reading]
The Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension will open to the public Sunday, Nov. 15, with free rides from one end of the Gold Line to the other — East Los Angeles to Pasadena — and celebrations are planned along the route. On Sunday, festivities will take place [continue reading]
On Saturday, November 21st, beloved local blog, Franklin Avenue, is holding its 4th annual urban hike across Los Angeles: The Great Los Angeles Walk 2009. The walk, which starts in downtown and ends at the ocean, comes bundled with “no agenda, no cause, no special reason,” according to the organizers. [continue reading]
Let me guess: As you sit here reading this today you’re probably not exactly obsessed with measures that might appear on the 2010 November ballot. Nonetheless, for those interested in transit, there’s an interesting measure in the works. The California Transit Assn. (known as the CTA), which represents transit agencies [continue reading]
In a post yesterday I wrote that the bus shuttle from the U2 show at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night was a very mixed bag. Getting to the concert was fine; waiting in the ridiculously disorganized line in fenced corrals to travel from the Rose Bowl to Pasadena City [continue reading]
Here are today’s transpo headlines, courtesy of the Metro library. The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit filed by South Pasadena and La Canada against Metro was recently thrown out. The issue was the 710, with both cities saying that it was wrong for Metro to include the 710 gap [continue reading]
In so many ways, despite all it has going for it, Los Angeles is an ugly city. I blame this on the fact that it has been scaled and arranged to accommodate the all-mighty automobile. The Los Angeles region’s freeways, while impressive in their sheer immensity and ubiquity (and sometimes, [continue reading]
With the Eastside Gold Line Extension now scheduled to open to the public on Nov. 15, here’s a short video of trains on the line. The video shows trains on 1st Street between the Los Angeles River and the tunnel the trains will enter to go under Boyle Heights.
