In the morning headlines today, we linked to an L.A. Times article bemoaning the bad traffic at Dodger Stadium. With that in mind, here’s a look at four ballparks in the U.S. that are easy to reach via regional transit systems. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, our roundup of the latest Metro related tweets. To get our attention, add the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets and subscribe to our feed if you haven’t already. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on metro.net. If having problems viewing [continue reading]
photo by Gilderic Photography, via Flickr creative commons In my role as chief Metro blogger, I see an awful lot of escalator photos — and Metro certainly has some big ones — and most of them aren’t very interesting. But every so often I come across one on Flickr that’s [continue reading]
photo by the U.K. Department of Culture, Media and Sport, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo of a slice of the record crowds that used public transit in London during the recent Olympic Games. And here’s our recent post about how an expanded transit system could serve a future Olympics [continue reading]
photo by Simon Plestenjak, via Flickr creative commons The Metro in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival last year. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the photos we’ve featured can be seen [continue reading]
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Maybe it’s not transit as usually portrayed on this blog, but who cares? The photo was taken yesterday by a camera on the Curiousity Rover and posted today. Here’s the description from NASA: This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site [continue reading]
photo by TCDavis, via Flickr creative commons There are a lot of photos floating around online of escalators and stairs in subway stations, but relatively few of them manage to be good. Here’s a nicely composed one taken this month in the Washington D.C. Metro. The photo has great lines [continue reading]
photo by downtowngal, via submission This is a very cool photo. Explains downtowngal in an email: This was taken on the Purple Line. It was really blurry but saved by processing in Photoshop Elements with the Poster Edges filter, and applying a color gradient. I think it expresses how a [continue reading]
photo by William Andrews, via submission William emailed this photo over a few weeks ago — as a summer solstice photo — but I thought it would be nice to run on what promises to be a stinking hot day here in So Cal. The photo was taken in 2002 [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, our roundup of the latest Metro related tweets. To get our attention, add the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets and subscribe to our feed if you haven’t already. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on Metro.net. If having problems viewing [continue reading]
