This is part of the process of getting the Expo Line extension to Santa Monica ready for public consumption. Another reminder: train testing between Palms and Santa Monica continues during the day and night. Be alert and be safe, people!
Three Metro Blue Line stations — Grand/LATTC, San Pedro Street and Washington — will be closed, and there will be no Blue Line trains between 7th Street/Metro Center and Vernon [continue reading]
Art of Transit: Metro takes control of Expo Line to begin pre-revenue service (Santa Monica Next) Metro can now justly say “my precious” about the project’s mainline tracks between Culver City and Santa Monica. The Expo Line Construction Authority handed over the 6.6-mile tracks on Friday, a big step forward [continue reading]
With the announcement last week that the NFL’s Rams — and possibly the Chargers — are relocating to the Los Angeles area, here’s an interesting motion that will go before the Metro Board of Directors this month. The motion calls for a task force to study ways to use the [continue reading]
Please see the notice and map above. Hours of testing will vary — it’s best to assume these are active tracks and to look both ways and obey all traffic [continue reading]
Welcome to the first “Go Metro Weekends” of 2016 Source Readers and Metro Riders! January is the month of resolutions. It’s also the month of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (Jan. 15) [continue reading]
From the Dept. of News: Bit of news, for @metrolosangeles watchers: Chief planning officer Martha Welborne has left the agency for a job with Disney. — Laura J. Nelson 🦅 [continue reading]
Attentive readers know that the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo/Arts District Station closed on Friday evening. The closure will continue until late March so that the tracks in the middle of 1st Street can be temporarily moved to the north side of the street in order to construct the entrance to a [continue reading]
The pilot program that has been in effect on the Metro Blue and Expo Lines during select weekends this past fall is about to become a permanent feature of weekend service [continue reading]
From the Department of Reminders: The Little Tokyo/Arts District Station closes tonight at 9 p.m. for construction of one of the tunnel portals for the Regional Connector. More info here [continue reading]
