The tunnel boring machine that is digging the second of the two rail tunnels under Crenshaw Boulevard arrived at the future Martin Luther King, Jr. Station last week. The first [continue reading]
(for pdf downloads, please click here) Earlier this month, Metro released the above presentation on the Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit project. The presentation summarizes a technical study that was launched [continue reading]
Reminder: for those of you planning on going to the march Saturday, avoid long lines at the TAP vending machines by getting your TAP card ahead of time. More here. Dept. of Infrastructure Facts: I didn’t know Oroville Dam was taller than Hoover Dam. Now I do. Here’s what the [continue reading]
Starting this Friday evening through close of service on Sunday, there will be no train service to three Metro Expo Line stations — Palms, Westwood/Rancho Park and Expo/Sepulveda — in [continue reading]
Train service will be replaced by bus shuttles on two stretches of the Expo Line this month in order for maintenance and repair work to be performed on overhead wires, track and communications equipment. The first closure was the weekend of Feb. 10 to 12. This coming weekend from the [continue reading]
Dept. of Practice Makes Perfect: Metro last week held an exercise for some of its bus operators: a wheelchair securement competition to test an essential skill. Below are a few [continue reading]
ICYMI: Metro says there were 592,000 Metro Rail boardings on Saturday, which included the well-attended Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles. That compares to the average of 231,897 boardings on Saturdays during [continue reading]
As thousands converged on downtown Los Angeles for the Saturday Women’s March, Metro Rail carried a total of 592,000 boarding passengers – 360,000 more riders than on a typical Saturday. [continue reading]
The day is nearly here: construction is set to begin for a new development, The Ivy, that will occupy the parking lot adjacent to the Expo Line’s Culver City Station. [continue reading]
The Art of Transit today is a no-brainer, given the winter storm that has descended on the Sierra Nevada the past few days. To wit: #CAStorm @jarrettmjackson of Mammoth Lakes, #California 1/9/17: "I'm too tired from shoveling snow to tweet anything…"#StormHour pic.twitter.com/T3rScwTLuQ — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) January 9, 2017 Wondering [continue reading]
