How We Roll, Oct. 13: transit woes in the swamps of Jersey
From the latest Nobel winner for literature: Baseball vs Climate Change: The Dodgers play the Senators today in D.C. for the right to destroy the Cubs’ hopes and dreams in [continue reading]
$1.75 is the price you pay: Go Metro to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band!
UPDATE: The Tuesday night show began about 8:15 p.m. and ended about 11:45 p.m. Keep that in mind if planning on taking the Expo Line to other rail lines — [continue reading]
Go Metro to Record Store Day on Saturday!
Riders of a Certain Age will recall there used to be a time that purchasing new music required actually leaving the domicile and going to these awesome places called record stores. There you would plunk down a few dollars for vinyl that featured cover art and lyrics sheets that [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Monday, February 10
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On Transportation column, May 2
EXPO LINE OPENING: First and foremost, a hearty congratulations to Los Angeles County taxpayers who mostly footed the bill for the $932-million first phase of the Expo Line. I thought the best part of this past weekend was watching those who paid for the rail line finally get a [continue reading]
Go Metro to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band!
In a perfect world, I’d be writing that you could take a downbound Expo Line train the Thursday and Friday night Bruce Springsteen shows at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. As fate would have it — pretty much sealed the day I got a ticket to the Friday night show [continue reading]
On Transportation: April 4 column
HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN: The revised plan that was released Monday proposes to build 300 miles of high-speed rail track between Merced and the San Fernando Valley by 2021. It’s nice to see the initial segment of the project expanded to Los Angeles County, but there’s an obvious question here: Even [continue reading]
Five things I’m thinking about transportation, Feb. 15th edition
81 MILLION REASONS TO BE HAPPY: All things considered, I thought it was pretty amazing that President Obama’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year included $31 million in federal funds for the Regional Connector and $50 million for the Westside Subway Extension. Both, of course, are excellent and needed [continue reading]
Five things I’m thinking about transportation, Feb. 8 edition
Having read a lot of the press and comment boards concerning the report by Beverly Hills’ consultants on tunneling safety for the Westside Subway Extension, I encourage those interested to actually read the report itself. Some of the discussion is technical in nature, but I think everyone should make their [continue reading]
Five things I’m thinking about transportation, Jan. 25 edition
HIGH-SPEED RAIL: If you’re in school and studying to be a transportation planner and have to do a thesis or dissertation, please consider studying different ways that California could improve it’s inter-city rail network and at what cost. Here are the key excerpts from the State Auditor’s summary report on [continue reading]