From Metro: As Metro continues to build for Los Angeles County’s transportation future, there is a lot of excitement growing around the update to our long-range plan and the projects and programs that will be part of it. It’s great that so many people are so interested! The plan is being [continue reading]
Attentive readers know that Metro is in the midst of updating its long-range plan and is considering a potential ballot measure in November to raise funds to build more [continue reading]
We’re going to focus on one article today…. Despite billions invested, ridership on Southern California public transit continues to decline (LAT) The transit-ridership-is-down story has been getting some media play lately. [continue reading]
Art of Transit: It has been slow news-wise over the holidays. So I’ll do something different today and write about a quartet of issues we’ve seen often in the news [continue reading]
Bus passenger stabbed to death in Highland Park (LAT) The fatal stabbing occurred on the Metro 81 Local Bus about 10:40 p.m. on Monday night in Highland Park. Police told the LAT that three men boarded a bus at Figueroa and 57th Street and then got into an argument with [continue reading]
We have a couple key items today about oil and climate change. I’m not very comfortable vilifying Big Oil, mostly because many of us — including yours truly — have [continue reading]
According to my inbox, the heavy favorite for the name for @metrolosangeles's new subway tunneling machine is "El Chapo." — Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) October 29, 2015 Oh dear. Laura’s [continue reading]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today joined a host of San Fernando Valley representatives, stakeholders, community members and others to officially celebrate the 10-year anniversary of [continue reading]
Art of Transit: Freedom from fries (The New Yorker) Not a transpo story per se, although the rise of McD’s after WWII is inseparable from the rise of post-war suburbs and [continue reading]
https://storify.com/metrolosangeles/reaction-to-foothill-gold-line-announcement Gold Line extension to Azusa will open in March, bringing Metro rail deeper into L.A. suburbs (LAT) A good look at yesterday’s big announcement that the Gold Line to [continue reading]
