I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend and was able to get in some R&R. Need something to read whilst transiting today? Try this New Yorker story about efforts to bring virtual reality to the office to help workers escape — at least digitally — the tedium of their [continue reading]
Dept. of Nasal-Minded Innovations: The plans are to install the deodorizers in every rail car — four per car. The deodorizers have charcoal granules in them that are designed to absorb [continue reading]
ICYMI: exciting new video of the tunnel boring machine digging the first of two Regional Connector tunnels under DTLA. In Monday’s HWR, I asked what changes you would make to [continue reading]
Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by LA Metro (@metrolosangeles) More CicLAvia pics here, btw. L.A. will consider tighter rules for carpool and toll lanes (LAT) The Metro Board voted 11 to 1 last week to ask for a study of strategies that can [continue reading]
Dept. of Delays: The Blue Line and Expo Line delays during today’s morning rush hour was caused by this car getting stuck on the tracks at 12th and Flower in downtown L.A. at about 5:25 a.m. How’d the car get there? Early word is that the driver was allegedly drunk. The problem [continue reading]
From the Dept. of Expired Umbrellas: The worst of the storm blew through here on Friday but continued throughout the weekend up north. Skiers coming home from Lake Tahoe yesterday [continue reading]
Art of Transit: The view from the other direction: Walking thru the @metrolosangeles new entrance/exit at 7th St/Metro Center into @TheBlocLA #mydayinla pic.twitter.com/W7igYCRQzY — tom nakanishi (@tomnakanishi) February 7, 2017 [continue reading]
Dept. of Sneak Peeks: Dept. of Groundhog’s Day: The Sierra snowpack is at its highest level for this time of the year since the mid-1990s, some of California’s reservoirs are [continue reading]
Reminder: metro.net will be down between noon and 2 p.m. today for the cutover to the new metro.net. The tech folks have rebuilt the trip planner from the ground up, [continue reading]
From the Dept. of Twitter: The feed for BART — the rail system serving parts of the Bay Area — had lots to say this weekend. You can take BART to all kinds of weekend events – also, direct service to SFO is running great right now. — SFBART (@SFBART) [continue reading]
