The decision was made today by the Metro Board of Directors, meaning that the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo/Arts District Station will remain open until January 8, 2016. Here is the news release from Metro: METRO BOARD POSTPONES REGIONAL CONNECTOR CONSTRUCTION NEAR LITTLE TOKYO TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS DURING THE HOLIDAYS To [continue reading]
The bike share pilot program is scheduled to begin next summer in downtown Los Angeles. Metro’s bike share fare structure consists of three simple pass options to meet the needs of [continue reading]
Art of Transit: Monrovia may loan developer $1.5 million to restore historic train depot (Star News) The city is considering lending the money to a developer to rehab the old [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors’ final meeting of the year is Thursday, beginning at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station. The agenda is above. As usual, the meeting is open to the public. You can listen online here (a link will appear under the ‘audio’ column at far [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]
The latest edition of Metro Motion — the agency’s quarterly program for public access television — has been completed. The above segment offers a short preview of the Gold Line extension [continue reading]
Art of Transit: The letter "M": It’s like a Bat Signal for mass transportation http://t.co/bz2YbuIS2w pic.twitter.com/BEPYeOhrbQ — Bloomberg CityLab (@CityLab) June 9, 2015 Art of Transit 2: Greenland is melting [continue reading]
From the Land of Twitter: Robots Read News about self-driving cars. pic.twitter.com/D9JqKdN9dr — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 5, 2015 Use the next 30 seconds to ask your #govt rep to [continue reading]
Below are some of the most interesting actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors at their monthly meeting held Thursday. The full agenda is above. As we also noted earlier on Twitter, Metro CEO Phil Washington congratulated the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority on reaching “substantial completion” of the [continue reading]
Metro and the Pacific Coast Regional Small Business Development Corporation will be hosting a second series of pilot Business Interruption Fund (BIF) workshops for firms in the area of three Metro Rail construction projects — the Crenshaw/LAX Line, Purple Line Extension’s first segment to Wilshire/La Cienega and the Little Tokyo [continue reading]
