From the Dept. of Expired Umbrellas: The worst of the storm blew through here on Friday but continued throughout the weekend up north. Skiers coming home from Lake Tahoe yesterday [continue reading]
I shot these last Tuesday. Please feel free to use on media, blogs and social media. The Regional Connector project is a 1.9-mile rail tunnel in downtown Los Angeles that [continue reading]
ICYMI: Metro says there were 592,000 Metro Rail boardings on Saturday, which included the well-attended Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles. That compares to the average of 231,897 boardings on Saturdays during [continue reading]
There are too many women’s marchers for Metro trains to carry (SGV Tribune) The Red Line at the women’s march (Reddit) Huge crowds swarm Metro’s trains and buses for Women’s [continue reading]
Eat Shop Play Local As L.A. Metro builds $8 billion of new rail lines in Los Angeles County, we created Eat Shop Play as a unique program to lessen the [continue reading]
The Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (Angeli, as she’s known around these parts) has arrived at the 1st St/Central Avenue Station site in Little Tokyo. After lowering the machine one [continue reading]
Mitsuru Café is located within Japanese Village Plaza and sells traditional Japanese finger foods such as imagawayaki (red bean cakes), takoyaki (octopus balls), and mitarashi dango (mochi rice cake). The [continue reading]
This was my seventh year at the agency and, by far, 2016 was the busiest. I usually like to put the end-of-the-year highlights in chronological order but I think four [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Related: More recent Crenshaw/LAX Line construction pics. Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: Here are photos of the Uber driverless cars leaving SF en masse. https://t.co/zJFGRQdvG6 pic.twitter.com/5fn5LDrBZ7 — Curbed SF (@CurbedSF) December 22, 2016 Big rig crashes on 210; Gold Line stopped in Pasadena [continue reading]
Metro Red Line bomb threat highlights vulnerabilities of rail system to attack (SGV Tribune) How vulnerable are transit systems in the U.S. to a terrorist attack? And is a multi-agency police force — as has been proposed by Metro staff — the best way to safeguard our local system? Those [continue reading]
