photo by Victor Hugo Cuevas, via submission Victor captured this image last month of a street vendor on his way to work in Long Beach on a southbound Blue Line train. Nice colors set against the less aggressive tones of the train and the bright window. To submit a photo [continue reading]
photo by Miss P, via Twitter I believe this photo speaks for itself. The gas station — nice flowers, btw — was taken over the weekend at the corner of Wilshire and 26th in Santa Monica. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.84 nationally and $4.20 [continue reading]
photo by hannu.oskala, via Flickr creative commons This is an epically cool photo for two reasons. First, there is something very pleasing to the eye about the way that the people on the train platform in the Helsinki subway are spaced out. Second, the photographer set them against the blur [continue reading]
photo by Jon Sittner, via Flickr I find many of the photos that we use in “the art of transit” on Flickr, which is both easy to search and has a multitude of groups dedicated to transportation. In those groups, a lot of photographers try to capture images of stairwells [continue reading]
photo by effelarr, via Flickr creative commons A nice use of blur to capture the movement of a Metro local bus on the 6th Street Bridge heading into downtown L.A. Light at mid-day can be very harsh here and I like how the color of the bus really stands out [continue reading]
photo by David Lor, via Flickr This is a very nice photo of an Amtrak employee in one of the tunnels leading to the train platforms at Los Angeles Union Station. David, a records and information coordinator for Metro, shot the original photo on film. To submit a photo or [continue reading]
photo by Robert Gordon, via Flickr A simple and very well composed photo of a New Jersey Transit commuter train in New Jersey. The photo was taken with a Nikon D90 with a shutter speed of three-tenths of a second, aperture f/5.0, 58 mm focal length and 200 ISO. To [continue reading]
photo courtesy NASA Here’s the thing: the above headline may not be true at the moment. But it will be true and perhaps sooner rather than later. The Expo Line has a target date of a partial opening in November and has multiple stops in the Exposition Park and USC [continue reading]
Why not? There are some good ones out there from this past Sunday’s bike ride and the initial CicLAvia last October. Here are a few: photo by workthe angles, via Flickr photo by David Lor, via Flickr photo by Eastsider LA, via Google Picasa photo by Waltarrrr, via Flickr photo [continue reading]
photo by victoriabernal, via Flickr Here’s one more photo from Sunday’s big CicLAvia event, this one taken on 6th Street outside the First Congregational Church. I think the photo speaks volumes about the mood of the day — both of the participants and observers. Also, here’s a time-lapse video by [continue reading]
