Here’s the news release from Metrolink: Southern Californian’s can take special Metrolink trains from the San Fernando Valley to the Ventura County Fair at Seaside Park in San Buenaventura on Aug. 6 and 13. Metrolink will offer three north and three southbound train trips, between Chatsworth and the fairgrounds, with [continue reading]
As many of you know, Metro has been working to increase space for cyclists on its subway and light rail cars — and will be taking out a few seats here and there to help. Metrolink is getting in the act, too — and vastly increasing room for bikes on [continue reading]
I suspect one of the most interesting discussions at Thursday’s meeting of the Metro Board of Directors will involve a non-Metro project: the California high-speed rail project between Anaheim and San Francisco. County Mayor/Supervisor and Metro Board Vice Chairman Mike Antonovich has authored a motion asking the Board to support [continue reading]
Photo by Danny Peyton, via Twitter A cool and colorful photo of Metrolink trains waiting to depart at Los Angeles Union Station. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. [continue reading]
In a meeting at Metro the other day, Metrolink Board Chairman Richard Katz said that Metrolink will be increasingly trying to offer special service for big events. The commuter railroad — partially funded by Metro — saw huge crowds with its special trains to the U2 shows in Anaheim last [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink: Los Angeles – With almost 20,000 boardings over the weekend, Metrolink experienced the highest weekend ridership it has seen in its 19 year history. This weekend’s numbers are almost 50 percent higher than the same weekend last year and 10 percent higher than the [continue reading]
Some preliminary good news for Carmageddon: as of 8:15 a.m. Monday morning, the National Weather Service is predicting decent weather for this weekend in the San Fernando Valley. See the forecast above, taken from the NWS website. If the forecast holds, it will certainly help not to have blazing hot [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. American cars are getting heavier and heavier. Is that dangerous? (Slate) From 1987 to 2010 American cars have packed on an extra [continue reading]
Despite the late announcement last week of service to the U2 concerts on Friday and Saturday night, Metrolink still saw big crowds on its trains. I’m not too surprised. I’ve driven from L.A. to Anaheim on a couple of occasions for concerts and/or baseball games and it’s a royal pain. [continue reading]
U2 is playing Angel Stadium tonight and Saturday night, with both concerts scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The train is $7 round-trip from Union Station — a good deal — and probably a lot nicer than sitting in traffic on the 5 freeway or the stadium parking lot. Here [continue reading]
