Metro staff continue to refine the concepts for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project that will build a heavy rail line or monorail between the Van Nuys Metrolink Station in the [continue reading]
pdf here A series of three community meetings for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project began tonight with Metro showing six initial concepts for the future rail line. The presentation is [continue reading]
More on the monorail story we mentioned yesterday…. L.A. mayor thinks a monorail over the 405 Freeway could tame traffic gridlock (LAT) During a radio interview earlier this week, L.A. [continue reading]
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads….” –Doc Emmett Brown The subject of Back to the Future Day came up in my beer league hockey locker room last night. The [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Have fun this evening and thanks for riding, L.A. Kings fans! Beverly Hills appeals ruling that lets Metro tunnel under high school (L.A. Times) The [continue reading]
photo by double-h, via Flickr creative commons Good sunset shot of the Osaka monorail, taken earlier or later today (depending on your point of view or which side of the Date Line you’re on, I suppose) by a Sony NEX-7. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
photo by Blue_Moon_Rabbit, via Flickr Some kind of new iPhone is being announced later today by Apple, so I thought I’d post a nice iPhone photo today. This one was taken at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo and processed using the PhotoForge app. Very nice use of the tilt-shift effect. [continue reading]
photo by Harold R. Senthee, via his Flickr photostream If it looks like something out of another century, well it is. This is the famous “floating train” of Wuppertal, Germany. It was built in 1900 and is actually a monorail; the idea was to find a transit system that would [continue reading]
Let’s start the holiday week in Sin City — where else? — with a fun story by Metropolis Magazine taking a critical look at the monorail that is supposed to serve the Las Vegas Strip but is mostly out-of-view and slow. The author’s conclusion: if you’re trying to get around [continue reading]
