Let’s start the holiday week in Sin City — where else? — with a fun story by Metropolis Magazine taking a critical look at the monorail that is supposed to serve the Las Vegas Strip but is mostly out-of-view and slow. The author’s conclusion: if you’re trying to get around [continue reading]
EGPNews.com takes a closer look at Eastside Gold Line safety and the Metro Board’s decision to speed up the process of installing safety gates along the new line. Many residents along the line showed up to last week’s meeting of the Metro Board to ask that a lengthy environmental impact [continue reading]
Metro has released ridership numbers for November and there’s relatively little news to report. Rail ridership across the system increased slightly from Nov. 2008 — due to the opening of the Eastside Gold Line Extension — and bus ridership dipped from one year earlier. Metro officials believe the weak economy [continue reading]
Warm-up your eyeballs. A lot of really good transpo stories out there today. The L.A. Times’ Rich Connell reports that Metrolink and other commuter railroads sought and were granted a federal waiver more than a decade ago to bypass a rule requiring them to post speed limit signs in certain [continue reading]
This morning Metro CEO Art Leahy signed off on running all night service on the Metro Orange Line this New Year’s Eve. The Orange Line busway will join its steel-wheeled Metro Rail brethren (the Red, Purple, Blue, Green and Gold Lines) in offering this special 24-hour service to Metro riders. [continue reading]
I’m back from a few days of intense study of the water quantity content of snowflakes in the Eastern Sierra and found all sorts of goodies in this morning’s transportation headlines, compiled by the Metro library. If you’re looking to ease your brain into the workday, I would start with [continue reading]
Even though I visit the Experience LA website every week to help compile our Go Metro Weekends guide, I didn’t find out about their awesome new Google maps mashup until last week when LAist had a post about it. Granted, the map has only been around for a few weeks, [continue reading]
The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has released its 2009 California High Speed Rail Business Plan to the public. The big news? Projected costs have increased to $42.6 billion and fares are expected to be 83% the cost of typical airfare. On their blog, the CHSRA says the $9 [continue reading]
UPDATE: Metro has released the timetable for Line 902 in PDF format. In addition to the Silver Line, Metro has another new bus service rolling out next week – Metro Line 902. Essentially, Metro Line 902 is a supplemental line to the popular, and therefore crowded, Metro Orange Line in [continue reading]
A lot of people have been asking about the Metro Silver Line bus service that will be starting on December 13th. Well, Metro has released a bunch of new information including timetables, maps and a destination guide. We’re going to take a closer look at the information and figure out [continue reading]
