First off, I’d like to disclose that I’m not a regular Blue Line rider. Nor do I live or work in an area where I have to cross tracks of the Blue Line on a regular basis. I do ride the Blue Line, typically when I make an occasional trip [continue reading]
I have already posted about the engineering challenges of making the Blue Line safe and enforcement of traffic and pedestrian laws along the Blue Line. To quickly summarize: the line is heavily ridden, safety improvements have been made, the overall accident rate has been dropping and there have been crackdowns [continue reading]
In July of this summer, the Blue Line will turn 20 years old. The last streetcars rolled through Los Angeles in the early 1960s; it wasn’t until the Blue Line’s debut in 1990 that mass transit rail service returned to the region. In January, the Blue Line saw nearly 78,000 [continue reading]
The local transit agency in Las Vegas has no interest in helping the bankrupt, privately-operated monorail system that is supposed to get people up and down The Strip but, as critics have often noted, operates largely out of view of the public. The agency proposes to build a bus rapid [continue reading]
The Boston Globe has an opinion piece that calls for the end of the anti-urban bias in national politics. For those who doubt such a thing exists, one only has to look at national subsidies of highways, homeownership and suburban school system – all of which lure families out of [continue reading]
The conversion of carpool lanes to toll lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways could be pushed back 19 months — to 2012 — under a plan to be considered by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday. It’s item No. 47 on the meeting [continue reading]
It’s hard not to be a grumpy bear when it rains like this, so naturally I started my morning with a story from the San Diego Union-Tribune about the roll-out there of plastic, reusable fare cards that are tapped against machines that read them. Riders don’t seem to like them [continue reading]
The first decade of the 2000’s has been ripe with accomplishments for Metro and transportation improvements in Los Angeles County. What follows is a list of 30 notable achievements and moments in the past decade. Some may be more important to you than others, but most hopefully show a measure [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Times ran a story on Tuesday headlined “Expo Line project costs and delays are ballooning; The rail line from downtown L.A. to Culver City is $220 million over budget and a year behind schedule. Officials hope to open part of the route next year.” As I posted [continue reading]
We had a post earlier this week about upcoming bus service changes and the addition of new Silver Line bus service between El Monte Station and the Artesia Transit Center via the El Monte Busway and Harbor Freeway Transitway. A press release on the Silver Line is after the jump [continue reading]
