photo by Andrew Raby, via Flickr Nice use of color in this photo of the Pershing Square station for the Red and Purple lines in downtown L.A. Why so empty? The photo was taken during the soapbox derby races held a couple of weekends ago. To submit a photo for [continue reading]
photo by slinqui, via Twitter submission with #artoftransit hashtag It’s funny how something routine such as boarding a bus can become quite interesting when the perspective is changed. The photo was taken looking down from the Blue Line’s Firestone station. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
photo by Friend of Expo Line, via submission The future is almost now, eh? The photo was taken recently at the intersection of Vermont and Exposition. 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 [continue reading]
photo courtesy Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page This photo cracks me up. The year was 1982 and the old RTD — one of Metro’s predecessor agencies — was promoting a mass transit convention by putting tires on an old streetcar and driving around in downtown L.A. traffic. I’m [continue reading]
A very interesting story ran earlier this week in the Baltimore Sun: The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland has said it intends to sue the Maryland Transit Administration because transit police tried to stop a pair of photographers from taking pictures of trains and other transit infrastructure. The ACLU [continue reading]
photo by Friend of Expo Line, via Flickr Nope, it’s not abandoned tracks through, say, rural Maine. It’s the abandoned tracks through West L.A. that will soon be home to phase two of the Expo Line Line between Culver City and Santa Monica. The shot shows the stretch of track [continue reading]
photo by Tessa Elwood, via Flickr This iPhone photo was taken in Sanibel, Florida. How did Tessa make the image? She used the iPhone’s built-in HDR function (high-dynamic range) to take the initial image — it combines a trio of photos to capture a range of different light — and [continue reading]
photo by Andy Wright, via submission This nice photo basically speaks for itself: two London icons taken together. 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 [continue reading]
photo by The Hamster Factor, via Flickr Nice sunset shot of the overhead electrical wires for the train in Gothenburg, Sweden. I like the barely visible bus that is to the left of the tracks. It’s possible to see the entire street scene using processing software, but the above is [continue reading]
photo by kawabata, via Flickr Another interesting photo taken with an iPhone — this one was processed with the PhoneGrafer app. That’s a bus terminal in Tokyo. 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 [continue reading]
