The great housing near transit debate; HWR, Feb. 27
Things to listen to whilst transiting: “Direct eye contract” by John McPhee about his attempts to see a bear in the wild in New Jersey. This is an audio version [continue reading]
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A lil’ lesson in economics from Professor Steve; HWR, Feb. 9
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]
Service Council approves new Warner Center circulator connecting with Orange Line
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]
Bike lawsuits, congestion pricing, LAT: How We Roll, Feb. 7
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]
Twenty-Eight by ’28 Plan approved; Metro Board meeting roundup
Agenda pdf for download and printing here The first Metro Board meeting of 2018 is now in the books. Here is the official recap of actions and you can listen here. Among the actions taken today, the Board: •Adopted the “Twenty-Eight by ’28” plan to complete 28 major road, transit and bicycle [continue reading]
71-day closure of five Green Line stations begins this Friday to connect Crenshaw/LAX Line and Green Line
On Friday evening at 9 p.m. Metro will begin work on connecting the Crenshaw/LAX Line and the Green Line tracks. The work will require a 71-day closure of five Green Line [continue reading]
Thanks for Going Metro to DTLA on Saturday!
Final update, 6 p.m. Nice turnout and service was pretty smooth throughout the day. This tweet sums it up from our end… A huge THANK YOU to the many thousands who rode our system today. We're honored to help our peeps exercise their right to peaceably assemble, free their speech, [continue reading]
2017 in review: our top 10 Metro storylines for the past year
Check it out: an end of the year list that actually arrives at the very end of the year! Instead of listing every single thing that happened at Metro this [continue reading]
City of L.A. working to update zoning around Orange Line stations
With funding from Metro, the city of Los Angeles Planning Department is working on a new Transit Neighborhood Plan for five stations along the Orange Line, as well as other Metro lines. In plain English, the plan’s purpose is to encourage more development near stations — and to regulate development. [continue reading]
Council to receive update on Orange Line and Warner Center bus service
This is an update on a proposal we posted about earlier this year: to replace direct Orange Line service to Warner Center with a circulator running between Canoga Station and Warner Center. The shuttle would make multiple stops whereas the Orange Line now has one stop in Warner Center. A Reseda [continue reading]