Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: News flash!: The Metro Board of Directors’ Finance, Budget and Audit Committee will be discussing trends in ridership — Metro and otherwise [continue reading]
Things to read/look at while sitting/standing/waiting/stuck on transit: The above photos are a fraction of the thousands of photos collected by Kipp Teague at his Project Apollo page on Flickr. Pretty [continue reading]
Artists and Nerds (respectfully and fondly) united last week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's “From Data to Discovery” conference on the Caltech campus in Pasadena. The one day event hosted by JPL, the Arts Center and Caltech focused on using visualizations to communicate complex topics. Such visualizations are a great [continue reading]
The photo was taken Monday at Cape Canaveral in Florida — the Endeavour and the Shuttle Aircraft Carrier are due to leave for the first leg of the trip to Los Angeles at 7:15 a.m. on Wednesday. The Endeavour will spend Wednesday night in Houston and then arrive on Thursday at [continue reading]
A little Monday morning stupidness for you, dear readers. Hat tip: Grist. A view of the suburban ghost towns surrounding Charlotte (Streetsblog network) Some interesting photos of abandoned suburban projects far from the city core. Cautionary tale or sign of things to come if the economy recovers? BART bike pilot [continue reading]
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Maybe it’s not transit as usually portrayed on this blog, but who cares? The photo was taken yesterday by a camera on the Curiousity Rover and posted today. Here’s the description from NASA: This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site [continue reading]
photo courtesy NASA Here’s the thing: the above headline may not be true at the moment. But it will be true and perhaps sooner rather than later. The Expo Line has a target date of a partial opening in November and has multiple stops in the Exposition Park and USC [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. When it comes to walking, L.A. is more deadly than other cities (LAist) Writing off a post at GOOD, LAist points out [continue reading]
