Go Metro to Taste of Soul on Oct. 15
Los Angeles’ largest free street festival, Taste of Soul, is back on Saturday, Oct. 15! From American to Jamaican food, savory to sweet, there is no reason why your taste [continue reading]
Regional Connector reaches ‘steady state’ at future 1st/Central Station in Little Tokyo
The Regional Connector project last week entered a new phase of construction—known as ‘steady state’—at the future underground 1st/Central Station in Little Tokyo. Construction at the easternmost end of the Connector’s [continue reading]
The 2024 Los Angeles Summer Olympics bid and Metro
We’re less than a year from learning whether Budapest, Paris or Los Angeles will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee will pick a city next [continue reading]
Staggered gates activated along Expo Line bike path in Santa Monica
Below are the tweet and news release from Santa Monica. I’m interested to hear what cyclists think about these — they certainly seem effective as a way to slow down cyclists before intersections, but I’m guessing some cyclists will find them unnecessary. As to why the gates are there…I just spoke [continue reading]
How We Roll, Sept. 22: improving Rams service, Expo TOD and sighs over distracted driving
Art of Transit: Ideas on how Metro and the Rams can expand fan transportation choices (Streetsblog LA) We asked for your ideas and Joe Linton responds with a lot of good suggestions on expanding walking, bike share, bike parking and the creation of shuttle buses similar to the ones that [continue reading]
This Weekend: Bus shuttles replace Blue/Expo Line in DTLA due to upgrade work
Bus shuttles will replace the Blue Line between Washington and 7th St/Metro Center, and the Expo Line between LATTC/Ortho and 7th St/Metro Center, beginning 9 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 23 [continue reading]
HWR, Sept. 21: a defense of Expo and who else is excited about self-driving big rigs?
I encourage everyone to poke around the great Transport Databook site by Yonah Freemark. There are all sorts of great charts that are useful, such as the one below — a nice reminder that Americans are driving at unprecedented levels. US vehicular travel continues to rise—new data for July 2016. [continue reading]
HWR, Sept. 19: here comes autumn, here comes election season
Rams are in first place!: I’ll be posting the ridership estimates for the Rams game on Sunday over at this post, where we have plenty of pics already. Looks like [continue reading]
About 21,000 fans went to Rams-Seahawks game on Metro
We knew ridership to the Rams thumping of the Seahawks was big with Metro estimating about 21,000 boardings on the Expo Line and Silver Line after the game. The NFL is saying that [continue reading]
Customer survey of Expo Line riders
As the report concludes and I think the takaway: •Overall, 70 percent of those surveyed stated that they were new riders, with 44 previously driving and another 23 percent changing [continue reading]