ICYMI: Expo Line and Metro ridership numbers for June. Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by LA Metro (@metrolosangeles) Art of Transit 2: Public [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Hello, Source readers. I was away for a few days doing the active transportation thing: backpacking into the Hoover Wilderness of the Eastern Sierra. It’s [continue reading]
The transit advocacy group Move LA has seen increasingly larger crowds for its previous four annual conferences. This year’s conference is Friday, Feb. 1, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the old ticketing area at the front of Los Angeles Union Station (i.e. the Alameda Street side of [continue reading]
The activist group Move LA held its “L.A. on the Verge’ event at Union Station on Friday, with a big focus on transportation funding. The group is headed by former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane, who clearly let the hundreds in attendance know his position: the Measure R sales tax [continue reading]
The group Breath California of Los Angeles County held a panel discussion last week that focused on transportation’s role in reducing air pollution. I thought a few points were made worth sharing: •The moderator, Neal Richman, the director of programs and advocacy for Breathe LA, said right off the top [continue reading]
Here’s the video recently posted by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the 30/10 Initiative, which hopes to build 12 Measure R transit projects in the next 10 years by using federal loans and other financing. Villaraigosa — also a member of the Metro Board of Directors — first floated [continue reading]
The advocacy group Move LA has started an online petition for those who support the 30/10 Initiative — the plan to use federal loans and other financing to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in 10 years instead of 30. The 30/10 Initiative is official Metro policy. Move LA [continue reading]
