The Metro Board of Directors are currently finishing up their regular monthly meeting here at Metro headquarters in downtown L.A. Here is the agenda and below are a few key issues they tackled: •(Item 22) The Board approved lifting the ban on bringing bicycles on Metro trains during peak hours [continue reading]
Metro tonight will become the new owner of Union Station, 38 acres of land around the station and the development rights associated with that land in the $75-million deal. The next step will be developing a master plan for the station. Here’s the details: Metro will this evening assume possession [continue reading]
This is great news for Angels fans and those who enjoy American League baseball: Metrolink is adding round-trip special service between Union Station in Los Angeles and Angel Stadium in Anaheim. And the price is certainly right: $7 for a round-trip ticket — a good deal unless you really like [continue reading]
Some very good news emerged from the Metrolink Board of Directors meeting on Friday: the commuter rail agency in early May will begin a pilot program of adding one express train in each direction on the Antelope Valley and San Bernardino lines — its two busiest. Each train will make [continue reading]
The 4th Annual Steel Wheels conference will roll into town on Saturday, March 19. The day-long conference, to be held at Metro HQ, is presented by the Rail Passenger Association of California (RailPAC) and the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP), two advocacy groups with a passion for passenger rail [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. Build America Bonds for transportation (National Journal) The latest installment of the National Journal’s “Expert Blogs” asks a panel of Washington insiders [continue reading]
This just in: the newest edition of Metro Motion TV is now posted on metro.net. We know that nearly half of all trips taken by the average American are two miles or less from their homes, but for L.A.’s extreme cyclists two miles is just the departure point. Find out who’s [continue reading]
The bus running between Los Angeles Union Station and Dodger Stadium during baseball season was a success last year and thanks to a a grant from the state Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee it’s returning for the 2011 season. As was the case last season, the Dodger Stadium [continue reading]
Here’s the press release from Metrolink, the commuter rail agency partially funded by Metro: Positive Train Control project receives $68.75 million and capacity-enhancing project on the Antelope Valley line gets $7.2 million Los Angeles – Late last week, the California Transportation Commission allocated $1 billion for transportation projects across the [continue reading]
photo by Ilda Licón, via submission Ilda took this photograph last Thursday while waiting for the westbound Metrolink train at the El Monte station. Ilda is an administrative analyst in Metro’s Genersal Services Administration. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or [continue reading]
