Metro Blue and Expo Lines are back in service this morning after repairs were completed to the overhead electric wires during the night. Both light rail lines were impacted since Sunday around 5 p.m. when the overhead electric wires were damaged at Flower Street and 18th Street in downtown Los [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Reducing train deaths is the goal [continue reading]
UPDATE: normal service has resumed. As of Monday at 4:20 p.m, there is no service south of Anaheim Street due to a power outage. The stations between downtown Long Beach and Anaheim Street will be served by bus shuttles. Please follow announcements. Please follow Metro’s general Twitter feed or Metro’s [continue reading]
Long Beach Transit Mall station renaming report Nothing earth-shaking here folks, but I know that station renaming is always of moderate to high interest to Source readers. Above is the staff report on the proposal to rename the Blue Line’s Transit Mall station “Downtown Long Beach,” a move that Metro [continue reading]
Good news: Beginning this Sunday night, the Gold and Expo lines will be running an enhanced late night schedule. Both lines will run every 10 minutes until midnight instead of every 20 minutes. This will be accomplished using shorter but more frequent trains. Customers should board the trains toward the [continue reading]
This is the latest “under construction” map produced by Metro. As you can see, there are five rail projects shown that aren’t on the usual day-to-day rail map: the second phase of the Expo Line, the Gold Line Foothill Extension, the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the Regional Connector and Purple Line Extension [continue reading]
Metro today provided the agency’s staff recommendation for a contractor to build the 8.5-mile Crenshaw/LAX Line. Staff is recommending a contract in the amount of $1,272,632,356 to Walsh/Shea Corridor Constructors. The contract includes stations at Leimert Park and Hindry that were approved last month by the Metro Board of Directors. [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. The Natural Gas Alliance has a new video urging transit agencies to convert their [continue reading]
Work on the Artesia Blue Line Station’s road repaving project enters phase 5 this Friday, April 19. The project is approximately 2/3 completed, and some of the upcoming phases of the project have been modified to help reduce impacts to customers. The station has remained open to the public throughout [continue reading]
Earlier this month, from April 8 to 10, the Transit Bureau Service of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department began a new operational concept to improve safety on the Blue Line. The concept is called TRUST (Transit Rail Urban Saturation Team) and it consists of deputies saturating parts of the Blue [continue reading]
