Long Beach Transit is hosting a job fair Jan. 24
Long Beach Transit will be hosting a job fair on Wednesday, Jan. 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grand Long Beach Events Center (4101 E. Willow St., Long [continue reading]
Maintenance Diaries: What it takes to keep our system running
What is being done to make the system more reliable? How much maintenance work is required to keep the system running? As a member of the team who monitors Metro’s primary [continue reading]
Bicycle riders, how do you share the road with buses? Take our survey
To people who ride bikes in Los Angeles County: we want feedback and “real world” insights on your experience sharing the road with buses. Metro is conducting a study (the [continue reading]
Metro debuts new mobile command center
Metro received its new Mobile Command Center this morning, raising the bar when it comes to preparedness for big events and/or emergencies. The command center may look like a giant black mobile home from the outside, but on the inside it has everything necessary to help keep communications, security, bus [continue reading]
How do they do that? Detour buses quickly
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
From the dept. of good news: bus ops playing it safe
It’s a bit of a slow day here, and this post comes from the Dept. of It’s a Holiday Week. Metro CEO Art Leahy emails a ‘daily briefing’ to staff with happenings from around the agency. One item from Monday’s briefing caught my eye: Laker Girls Help Us Celebrate Key [continue reading]
Streamlining effort for Metro’s bus operations
In 2002, Metro decentralized its bus operations — basically splitting Los Angeles County into five service sectors. The idea, in part, was to create closer ties to the communities served by the agency. It appears now that the agency is going to re-centralize some of those operations both as a [continue reading]